Head of Quality Control - Fraser Dove International : Job Details

Head of Quality Control

Do you have a passion for strategy development and execution?

Are you an out of the box thinker looking for your next career opportunity?

Are you based on the West Coast or willing to relocate?

Fraser Dove International is partnering exclusively with an innovative, distinguished Biopharmaceutical organisation seeking an experienced Quality control leader.

Discover more about our Head of Quality Control opportunity; it's objectives, duties/responsibilities and the skills, experience and competencies needed to succeed.

What you will do:

As the Head of Quality Control, your duties and responsibilities will include:

• Provide direct management of individuals, including goal setting, performance feedback, training, skills development, and mentoring.
• Acts as an advisor to subordinates when determining how to meet schedules and/or resolve technical problems. Reviews testing and laboratory records for accuracy and compliance with cGMP policies and principles.
• Manage cross-functional laboratories.
• Develop and maintain a tool for monitoring QC resource capacity. Provides feedback to QC management and production planners when capacity constraints exist.
• Ensure QC laboratory is maintained per cGMPs, including but not limited to reagent and general lab management, equipment and system calibration, qualification, validation and life cycle management. Oversee stability and sample management.
• Develops and monitors team performance measures to understand effectiveness, efficiency, and quality of group performance
• Leads, mentors, and coaches staff through routine one-on-one meetings, team meetings, and effective performance management.
• Sets and delivers on individual and team goals that support the department and site strategy. Takes personal accountability for both his/her own and the team's actions.
• Responsible for the supervision of the Biologics lab.
• Prepares responses to audits, out of specification/lab investigations, deviations, customer complaints, and corrective/preventative actions (CAPA)
• Actively work to ensure responses are completed on-time. Escalates roadblocks to completion and provide potential solutions.
• Prepare monthly management reports including budget analysis and project updates. Actively monitors spending for area.
• Predicts and escalates potential spending variances. Identifies corrective actions for spending variances.

What you will bring:

These are the skills and experience you will need to succeed as the Head of Quality Control :

Strong leadership experience.

• Bachelor's degree in a scientific discipline and relevant experience in a related field.
• Advanced knowledge working in a cGMP environment.

Got what it takes?

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Please Note:

This job description in no way states or implies that these are the only duties to be performed by the employee(s) incumbent in this position. Employee(s) will be required to follow any other job-related instructions and to perform any other job-related duties requested by any person authorised to give instructions or assignments.

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