Our client, a leading pharmaceutical company, is hiring a Field Specialist QA Operations on a contract basis.
Work Location:
Devens, MA – 100% On site
Summary:
The Contractor Field QA Specialist is responsible for quality activities for the Single Use Facility in accordance with company policies, standards, procedures, and Global cGMP. Functional responsibilities include ensuring manufacturing compliance with applicable procedures and batch records, providing real time review of manufacturing batch record documentation and logbooks, and working with operations to resolve manufacturing issues.
Knowledge/Skills/Education:
- High School Degree required
- Relevant college or university degree preferred.
- 4 years relevant work experience, with experience in a Quality Assurance role.
- Equivalent combination of education and experience acceptable.
- Must be action-oriented and skilled in decision-making, building relationships, problem solving, conflict management, planning and organizing, resource allocation, coaching others, and analytical thinking.
- Understands continuous improvement and improves efficiency and productivity within the group or project.
- Builds relationships internally within and with cross functional teams.
- Must have sound knowledge and experience in FDA regulated cGMP warehousing, Quality, and compliance environments. Prefer to also have knowledge of GMP Manufacturing operations and processes.
- Directs quality initiatives that accomplish continuous improvement and enhance site quality system efficiencies.
- Routinely recognizes and resolves Quality issues; Informs management of proposed solutions. Seeks management guidance on complex issues.
- Able to recognize conflict and notify management with proposed recommendations for resolution.
- Must possess an independent mindset. Work is self-directed.
- Requires moderate direction to complete more complex tasks; completes routine tasks with little or no supervision.
- Confident in making decisions for non-routine issues.
- Develops and revises procedures.
- Intermediate to advanced ability to interpret results and situations and articulate recommendations for resolution.
- Able to prepare written communications and communicate problems to management with clarity and accuracy.
- Able to effectively multi-task.
- Knowledge of US and global cGMP requirements.
- Must have strong authorship and ability to critically review investigations, interpret results and generate technical conclusions consistent with Quality risk management principles.
- Must be skilled in planning and organizing, decision-making, and building relationships.
- Knowledge of quality processes, including material disposition, change control, product complaints, deviations, investigations, and CAPA management.
- Able to effectively multi-task.
- Must have strong authorship and ability to critically review investigations, interpret results and generate technical conclusions consistent with Quality Risk Management principles.
- Must be skilled in planning and organizing, decision-making, and building relationships.
- Knowledge of quality processes, change control, product complaints, deviations, investigations, and CAPA management.
Responsibilities:
- Perform QA on the floor activities.
- Ensure manufacturing compliance with applicable procedures and batch records.
- Perform real time review of manufacturing batch records.
- Review manufacturing shop floor documentation.