Role Summary
Senior Associate IQA (Incoming Quality) — First Shift, Tuesday through Saturday. Located at the New Albany facility near Columbus, Ohio. The role provides quality oversight for the GMP receiving area and is responsible for execution of raw material inspection, sampling, and disposition activities within the incoming quality area, ensuring compliant implementation of the quality management system and timely disposition of raw materials used for finished drug product manufacturing.
Responsibilities
- Implement raw material sampling and inspection activities, including completion of GMP documentation to support raw material disposition
- Perform raw material disposition ensuring that all quality deliverables are met
- Provide quality expertise & guidance and work with operations partners, supply chain and supplier quality management to resolve issues and ensure timely release of the raw materials
- Own and review controlled documents, including Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), Work Instructions and Forms
- Own, investigate and approve quality records including deviations/CAPAs assuring adherence to procedural requirements and confirming assessments and evaluations of different collaborators are complete and accurate as needed
- Find opportunities for continuous improvement and implement improvements in partnership with other operations teams
- Provide support during GMP Quality audits & inspections
- Support Lean Transformation and Operational Excellence initiatives
Qualifications
- Required: High school/GED + 4 years of Quality and/or GMP Manufacturing experience
- Required: Associate’s + 2 years of Quality and/or GMP Manufacturing experience
- Required: Bachelor’s + 6 months of Quality and/or GMP Manufacturing experience
- Required: Master’s degree
- Preferred: Scientific degree in Life Sciences, Physical Sciences, Applied Engineering or Manufacturing Technologies
- Preferred: Experience in and knowledge of GMP/GCP operations or similarly regulated industry
- Preferred: Affinity with digital innovation, data sciences and Quality engineering
- Preferred: Experience with raw material receipt, inspection & sampling
- Preferred: Highly effective verbal and written communication skills, strong interpersonal skills
- Preferred: Great attention to detail and high degree of accuracy in GMP documentation
- Preferred: Ability to complete tasks autonomously, providing updates to senior management, and identifying potential issues
- Preferred: Strong organizational skills, including ability to follow assignments through to completion
- Preferred: Direct experience with Enterprise Resource Management software (SAP), TrackWise, CDOCS etc.