What are the responsibilities and job description for the Quality Assurance Associate (days) position at Planet Pharma?
Pay: 22.94/hr
Minimum education and experience required to perform the job:
Quality Assurance Associate
- Recommend SOP and batch record changes as needed
- Review proposed SOP revisions and provide feedback to management
- Real-time audit of batch records in the production suites for completeness, documentation, calculation errors and conformance to critical process parameters
- Perform room and equipment clearances per procedure following cleaning conducted by production.
- Perform microbial swabbing of equipment and room surfaces for environmental monitoring.
- Maintain a full understanding of all Catalent SOPs and policies along with all cGMP and CFR guidance that are applicable to the manufacturing of solid oral dosage pharmaceutical products.
- Perform routine testing of in-process and finished product samples including particle size, bulk density, moisture analysis, appearance, and AQL testing real-time.
- Monitor production manufacturing areas for compliance to SOP/cGMP/batch record and safety requirements in order to identify and resolve routine errors and prevent possible deviations that affect production real-time.
- Works cross functionally to assess impact for potential deviations and assist in identifying if an investigation is required.
- Initiate deviation problem reports in Trackwise for issues discovered by QA, providing sufficient detail of the incident so that a full investigation by the responsible department can be conducted.
- Manage quality status of WIP and finished good materials on physical inventory and in inventory system (JD Edwards)
- Other assignments as needed within the scope of QA Associate training curriculum.
- Assist in investigations for deviations by supporting data gathering and root cause analysis
- Enforcement of GMP Compliance.
- Promotes teamwork and good communication.
- Provide training and coaching to manufacturing staff as needed
- Support site process improvements (training, efficiency projects, implementation of CAPAs)
- Completes investigations of customer complaints
Minimum education and experience required to perform the job:
Quality Assurance Associate
- Bachelors degree; OR
- Associates with 1 year of related work experience; OR
- High School Diploma/GED with 2 years of related work experience