Quality Manager Job Description
As a Quality Manager, you will oversee the quality control operations. Your daily tasks may include:
* Maintaining oversight of equipment lifecycle activities, including procurement, installation, qualification, maintenance, and decommissioning.
* Providing direction to staff supporting equipment.
* Ensuring equipment qualification and maintenance programs align with regulatory requirements, are qualified, and available for laboratory usage.
* Interacting with partner groups to establish internal requirements for equipment.
* Leading equipment validation/qualification efforts through partnering and interaction with QA Validation and IT groups.
* Managing oversight of preventive and corrective maintenance monitoring program.
* Managing oversight of external laboratories' activities and performance monitoring of external testing laboratories.
* Supervising the issuance and approval of Quality agreements and SLAs with contract labs.
* Verifying that procedures reflect current contract lab utilization.
* Identifying and calling out issues at contract laboratories to leadership.
* Sourcing, coordinating, and project managing GMP activities relating to new contract lab introduction.
* Travel may be required in support of external contract laboratory testing activities.
* Performing personnel management functions, including time sheet submissions, scheduling of vacations, personnel development, and performance evaluations.
* Responsibility for automation and associated projects.
The ideal candidate will possess strong communication and interpersonal skills, demonstrate logical troubleshooting and problem-solving skills, have a detailed understanding of equipment qualification and maintenance activities, and ability to communicate effectively with multiple partners.
To be considered for this opportunity, you should have a degree in chemistry, biology, or a related field with 8+ years' proven experience preferably in the pharmaceutical or biotechnology industry and previous supervisory or leadership experience.