Senior Specialist, Quality Assurance

What Quality Assurance contributes to Cardinal Health

Quality develops and implements quality policies, procedures, and processes to ensure products and services comply with regulatory standards and specifications.

Quality Assurance develops and implements a compliant and cost effective quality system that assures products and services are reliable, safe and effective. This job family provides oversight of production/manufacturing activities, training to operational and quality control personnel, and educates business leaders on Quality policies and procedures and ensures that all products and services are properly reviewed for quality and documented.

Job Summary

The quality assurance specialist (QAS) performs all quality review and approval/release decisions at an FDA-regulated drug manufacturing facility. The facility manufactures two sterile liquid injection drugs, FDG and NaF, that are used for Positron Emission Tomography (PET) scans.

Responsibilities

• Handles CGMP documentation review related to product release, facilities and equipment, material controls, laboratory controls, packaging and labeling, and production & process controls.

• Establishes and reports metrics related products and processes as deemed necessary by the Regional Quality Manager RQM.

• Ensures the site manufactures products to meet the requirements of 21 CFR 212 (CGMP).

• Handles and ensures quality of documentation (control, retention, and archival) to support CGMP activities.

• Engages and collaborates with operations department to drive quality system and CGMP requirements.

• Performs product release activities per CGMP requirements.

• Monitors CAPA in investigations and closes when completed or escalates (if necessary).

• Performs aseptic review of the site with operations and documents results.

• Reports quality system issues to the RQM and others as necessary. This includes timely escalation of discrepancies upon identification

Schedule: 2:00am-10:00am Monday through Friday.

Location: Rochester, NY

Qualifications

• 2-4 years of experience, preferred

• Bachelor's degree in related field, or equivalent work experience, preferred

• Proficiency with MS Excel and MS Word

• Interpersonal skills

• Attention to detail

• Prior experience working nightshift, preferred

• Prior experience maintaining a filing system, preferred

• Project management, preferred

• Prior experience in a cGMP environment, preferred

What is expected of you and others at this level

• Applies working knowledge in the application of concepts, principles and technical capabilities to perform varied tasks

• Works on projects of moderate scope and complexity

• Identifies possible solutions to a variety of technical problems and takes action to resolve

• Applies judgment within defined parameters

• Receives general guidance and may receive more detailed instruction on new projects

• Work reviewed for sound reasoning and accuracy

Anticipated salary range: $68,500 - $88,020

Bonus eligible: No

Benefits: Cardinal Health offers a wide variety of benefits and programs to support health and well-being.

• Medical, dental and vision coverage

• Paid time off plan

• Health savings account (HSA)

• 401k savings plan

• Access to wages before pay day with myFlexPay

• Flexible spending accounts (FSAs)

• Short- and long-term disability coverage

• Work-Life resources

• Paid parental leave

• Healthy lifestyle programs

Application window anticipated to close: 2/11/2026 *if interested in opportunity, please submit application as soon as possible.

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