Director, Quality Operations and Quality Control
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Director, Quality Operations and Quality Control
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At Veranova, we believe people are our most important asset, and we are dedicated to building the most talented workforce in our industry. Our commitment to uncompromising focus on quality, compliance, safety, and excellence in delivery shapes everything we do. We are not just looking for skills; we are seeking innovative individuals who have a mindset open to learning and growth, and a desire to make a difference. Every role at Veranova plays a part in delivering an exceptional customer experience through ownership and integrity.
Veranova is a global leader in the development and manufacturing of complex active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) for pharma and biotech customers. With deep technical expertise and impressive flexibility, we develop solutions and processes that support and accelerate innovation.
Join us on our mission to enable current and next-generation therapeutics to improve and save the lives of patients.
Role Overview
The Director, Quality Operations and Quality Control leads the Quality Operations function and Quality Control test labs for the Veranova sites located in Devens, MA and North Andover, MA. In collaboration with site Leadership, it is the responsibility of this role to ensure the day to day Quality Assurance aspects of manufacturing, testing, reporting, issue resolution and batch disposition of active pharmaceutical ingredients, intermediates meet the compliance requirements applicable to drug substance manufacturing of pharmaceutical products.
This position is fully onsite first shift at our Devens, MA facility.
Responsibilities
- Aids in the creation of the Quality Operations (QO) and Quality Control (QC) strategy and implementation of the strategy at the site; Creates QC/QA workload planning, contributes to site budgeting, headcount and resource loading based on required skill sets and available assets
- Assures the standards and QO oversight of batch production monitoring, quality control and release requirements are executed to ensure batch compliance with GMPs and regulatory filings. Including stopping manufacture or distribution of a product if necessary.
- Leads or advises on root cause analysis performed to investigate manufacturing deviations, critical events, customer complaints, audit findings related to production or trends in quality metrics; Ensures compliance with QMS during production and testing including investigations, CAPA and Change Management.
- Support implementation and execution of LIMS, TrackWise improvements and other E-systems projects.
- In collaboration with Regulatory Affiars and QC, manage stability programs to support commercial products as well as new submissions, according to the ICH guidelines and zone requirements; Develop, improve, and revise Standard Operating Procedures testing monographs; Monitors documentation practices to assess data integrity during the production, testing, review of products for clinical or commercial use; Actively engages or leads teams in product or process/product technology transfers and method transfers across sites.
- In collaboration with site VP/GM, presents Quality Performance metrics to Executive leadership during quarterly management review meetings; Engages with site teams to review Quality Performance metrics and recommend actions for continuous improvement; Participate in Site leadership team to execute overall business priorities; Manages, coaches and develops site Quality team members for the purpose of both professional development and succession planning
- Engages with peer across regions to coordinate/harmonize product monitoring and disposition requirements as well as evaluate investigation trends and audit findings within and across sites to facilitates team discussion on proper global CAPA.
- Assures proper execution of process, product and method validation through review, guidance and approval of protocols and final reports verifying compliance with regulatory expectations; Oversees the QC laboratory and interacts with production floor operations which require safety training and proper use of PPE applicable to the facility and operation.
- Engages and leads discussions with customers as needed to resolve complaint issues, audit observations, or quality agreement terms; Leads the sites during Regulatory Agency Inspections and customer audits. Assists with DEA compliance requests as needed.
- Responsible for the Quality execution which requires intermittent travel within the region and periodically across sites for engagement with peers, site functional leaders, customers and strategy meetings.
- Carries out any other duties within the employee’s skills and abilities whenever reasonably
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