Posted in Other 13 days ago.
Location: St. Louis, Missouri
Job Description
As part of the Thermo Fisher Scientific team, you'll discover meaningful work that makes a positive impact on a global scale! Join our colleagues in bringing our Mission to life every single day to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner, and safer. We provide our global teams with the resources needed to achieve individual career goals while helping to take science a step beyond by developing solutions for some of the world's toughest challenges, like protecting the environment, making sure our food is safe or helping find cures for cancer.
The St Louis site is a fast-paced, 24/7 biologic drug substance manufacturing facility with approximately 1k employees. This GMP facility is focused on cell process development to support the clinical phase and commercial manufacturing by producing products to treat a variety of chronic health conditions including cancers and other life-threatening diseases.
This is a non-supervisory role, reporting to the Supervisor of QA Operations at the Thermo Fisher St. Louis site. This position will be expected to work a shift schedule that includes weekend work. Shift will be Wed-Sat, 10pm-8:30am
Discover Impactful Work:
Senior QA Technician is a quality assurance professional with prior experience of working within a Quality organization. This individual specializes in deviation prevention by executing QA on-the-floor activities that include but are not limited to in-process batch record review, logbook review, GEMBAs of all manufacturing areas, providing feedback to colleagues, observing active processes, supporting Manufacturing and PE by providing Quality input as needed, and requesting the initiation of deviations as they are identified. All activities are in support of producing and releasing quality bulk drug substance for clinical and commercial clients.
What will you do? (Responsibilities)
Spend the majority of work hours in manufacturing areas when production is on-going to oversee activities from a quality perspective and provide QA-related input
Perform manufacturing batch record and documentation review with excellent attention to details for completeness and accuracy prior to product release and/or closure
Perform QA approval of suite and equipment changeover between client processes
Perform autoclave logbook review and facilitate corrections
Observe active processing and be available to manufacturing and PE for support
GEMBA all assigned areas daily and provide immediate feedback to colleagues and area management to ensure compliance with cGMP's, site procedures, and regulatory requirements
Perform quarterly Fit and Finish inspections
Block/unblock product and materials as needed
Perform monthly BSC observations
Attend and participate in daily QA OTF Tier 1 meetings
Take actions to develop one's own knowledge and skills
Perform all training requirements in a timely manner
Support QAD with Issue Print and Emergency Non-routine label printing on weekends and during off-shifts
Provide training, coaching, and mentorship to new and/or less experienced team members
Lead team meetings as needed
Review deviations in Trackwise as needed
Review procedures in eDMS as required
Perform investigation interviews as required
Individuals in this group must be able to obtain buy-in and cooperation to resolve issues and maintain quality culture and quality standards throughout Operations with no direct authority over the people with whom they interact. Utilization of tact and diplomacy with internal and external customers is essential.
Education and Experience
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