The QA Validation Engineer is responsible for planning and overall approval of validation tasks, participating in the implementation of the Validation quality program, and ensuring that all practices and procedures comply with company policies and applicable regulations for the Quality areas under his/her responsibility.
Requirements
- Executes tasks as required to implement the Validation Master Plan and maintain in a validated state the equipment, utilities, facilities, automated process controllers, information systems, cleaning processes, manufacturing processes, laboratory instruments and analytical methods to demonstrate that product will perform consistently as intended.
- Ensures investigations of validation failures are completed thoroughly and documented accurately and are included in the plant CAPA system where required by policy.
- Participates with plant and external engineering resources on new installations/systems to ensure that factory/site/commissioning documentation is in accordance with cGMP and supports validation.
- Prefer knowledge of quality / compliance management as well as regulations and standards affecting API, Bulk Drug or Finished goods manufacturing.
Responsibilities
- review of commissioning and validation documentation completed by others
- leading, authoring or reviewing investigations and implementation of preventive and corrective action
- review and authoring of plant standard operating procedures
- review and approval of critical planned maintenance routines
- set-up of laboratory samples for qualification
- participation in the establishment of plant quality systems
- supporting regulatory and third party audits
Other
- responsible for planning and overall approval of validation tasks
- participate in the implementation of the Validation quality program at the plant under minimal supervision
- Bachelor's degree, preferably in Biology, Chemistry or Engineering
- Prefer 2+ years of overall experience in Manufacturing, Quality or Engineering
- Good verbal and written communication skills.