Quality Assurance Engineer

Job Description Summary

The Quality Assurance Engineer is responsible for the design construction validation maintenance and overall compliance of facilities systems and processes at Novartis Gene Therapies Durham N.C.

Job Description

Location:

• This position will be located in Durham NC and will be able to work on Hybrid schedule

Key Responsibilities:

• Provides QE support for clinical and commercial gene therapy products.
• Support of all internal and external audits in support of product manufacturing.
• Ensures Quality and Compliance aspects of design and work in collaboration with Engineering technical functions Manufacturing Operations to ensure that the facility is:
  • Compliant with all appropriate regulations (e.g. FDA EMEA and other major health authorities) for GMP manufacturing.
  • Capable of manufacturing products that are safe effective and that meet all applied controls and specifications.
  • Capable to meet intended design goals of output volume turnaround time and operating and product costs.
• Provides input on the translation of commercial product requirements into technical solutions that are capable of meeting defined CQAs (product Critical Quality Attributes) and CPPs (Critical Process Parameters).
• Acts as Quality approver on project deliverables as defined in the project plan.
• Works with validation colleagues to define the initial asset life-cycle model and qualification and validation strategy to ensure successful validation of the facility.
• Authors and/or approves Standard Operating Procedures in support of project activity and deliverables.
• Provides QA oversight of engineering validation and facilities activities related to maintaining a GMP facility in a validated state.
• Acts as the Quality approver for change controls deviations and CAPAs required to maintain the manufacturing facility in a GMP state.
• Works with supplier and Vendor Management colleagues to ensure that suppliers of goods and services for the new manufacturing facility are compliant and capable of fulfilling their contracted requirements.

Essential Requirements:

• B.S. degree in preferably engineering chemistry or biochemistry.
• 5 years experience in Biotech/Pharmaceutical industry or 4 years experience in Biotech/Pharmaceutical industry with at least 2 years within Novartis Gene Therapies.
• Experience with viral gene therapies cell culture technologies and/or orphan disease indications is a plus.
• Strong knowledge and application of the CFRs and cGMPs.
• Comprehensive knowledge of FDA and EU regulations and experience in US and international regulatory agency inspections.
• Direct experience with commissioning qualification and validation to meet FDA and other health authority requirements.
• Experience with deviations CAPAs and Change Controls.
• Direct experience reviewing and/or authoring standard operating procedures and partnering with operations on product related investigations and deviations.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills with strong technical writing experience required.
• Ability to synthesize data and summarize outcomes to provide recommendations on compliant path forward

Novartis Compensation and Benefit Summary:

The salary for this position is expected to range between $85400 and $158600 annually.

The final salary offered is determined based on factors like but not limited to relevant skills and experience and upon joining Novartis will be reviewed periodically. Novartis may change the published salary range based on company and market factors.

Your compensation will include a performance-based cash incentive and depending on the level of the role eligibility to be considered for annual equity awards.

US-based eligible employees will receive a comprehensive benefits package that includes health life and disability benefits a 401(k) with company contribution and match and a variety of other addition employees are eligible for a generous time off package including vacation personal days holidays and other leaves.

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The Novartis Group of Companies are Equal Opportunity Employers. We do not discriminate in recruitment hiring training promotion or other employment practices for reasons of race color religion sex national origin age sexual orientation gender identity or expression marital or veteran status disability or any other legally protected status.

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Salary Range

$85400.00 - $158600.00

Skills Desired

Continued Learning Dealing With Ambiguity Gmp Procedures Qa (Quality Assurance) Quality Control (Qc) Testing Quality Standards Self-Awareness Technological Expertise Technological Intelligence