Quality Assurance Specialist – External Quality Vaccines

Darwin Rhodes

  • Ireland
  • Contract
  • Full-time
  • 1 month ago
  • Work Location: Leopardstown, Ireland
  • Contract type: 6-month fixed-term contract (Maternity Cover)
  • Client: A global healthcare company committed to advancing medical innovation and improving patient outcomes through science-led initiatives.
Scope:The Manufacturing & Supply Division of our company is dedicated to being the most trusted supplier of biopharmaceuticals worldwide. Our facilities, along with our external contractors, suppliers, and partners, create a reliable global manufacturing network that’s devoted to delivering a high-quality, reliable supply to customers and patients on time, every time.Our Quality Assurance group ensures every single material inside our products is manufactured, processed, tested, packaged, stored and distributed aligned with our incredibly high standards of quality and meets all regulatory requirements. Partnering across our internal manufacturing facilities, external contract manufacturers and suppliers we create an interdependent global manufacturing network dedicated to deliver a compliant, reliable supply to customers and patients on time, every time, across the globe.The Specialist – External Quality Vaccines acts as Product Quality Manager (PQM), responsible for ensuring that all our products managed by External Quality Assurance (EQA) are manufactured, packaged, analysed, released, stored, and distributed in accordance with our expectations and all applicable regulatory requirements. The role has primary batch release responsibility and ensures that effective and robust Quality systems are in place to comply with required regulations, policies and guidelines governing the External Partners (EP/ExP’s) manufacture and release of vaccine drug substance and drug products by means of risk-based quality oversight and on-site supervision, as appropriate.Responsibilities:
  • Evaluate and/or release products to other sites and/or to the market with the assurance that the goods were produced in conformance to all applicable policies/procedures and compliance with all governing regulations
  • Review and approve change controls
  • Manage routine and complex deviations and complaints and assist in the coordination of significant investigations
  • Conduct routine and solve complex analytical change requests and support process modification change controls
  • Stability Program management, including review of stability reports, and Annual Product Review assembly
  • Provide on-site guidance in the preparation of metrics, procedures, and guidelines
  • Track and monitor operational and quality performance of the EP/ExP and can work with supplier to develop Corrective and preventive action (CAPA) plans
  • Assist the maintenance of retention samples, ship reagents and samples to support licensure and foreign registration
  • Responsible for shipment under quarantine
  • Support routine process validation; review and approve validation reports/tech transfer
  • Prepare pre-PAI assessments, support document requests for regulatory filings and post approval changes
What skills you will need:
  • Previous experience in the pharmaceutical industry with thorough knowledge of Quality Systems, Quality Assurance, and Quality Control including global GMP Quality Systems and regulatory requirements preferred
  • Solves complex problems; takes a new perspective using existing solutions
  • Works independently with minimal guidance
  • Explains difficult issues and works to build alignment around a complex situation
  • Accountable for a medium project with minimal resource requirements, risk and/or complexity
  • Ability to work across boundaries; demonstrated interpersonal, relationship building and leadership skills
  • Communicates easily in English both verbally and in writing
  • Strong knowledge of External Manufacturing management, supply chain, and operations, preferably direct experience with managing external partners
Preferred Experience and Skills:
  • Experience with manufacturing operations and/or analytical expertise associated with biologics and/or vaccines. Aseptic manufacturing experience
  • Experience with qualification of manufacturing facilities/equipment (i.e. Process/Cleaning Validation, IQ/OQ/PQ)
  • Competency in Analytical Method Validation/Verification/Transfer and Analytical Standards
  • Quality Risk Management (QRM) Experience

Darwin Rhodes