Quality Assurance Engineer/ Food Safety

The Opportunity:

Avantor, a Global Fortune 500 company is looking for a dedicated Quality Assurance Engineer to optimize our BPS manufacturing/ QARA organization. This Aurora, OH role is full-time, on-site.

If you have food safety / quality experience – let’s talk!

Minimum Education Requirement:

• Bachelor’s degree

Required Experience (4+ yrs):

• Leading, coordinating and maintaining a site food safety program and FSSC Certification
• Applying quality engineering principles, tools and techniques to develop and optimize systems and processes so that they are aligned with company strategy and regulatory requirements. 
• Using root cause analysis and risk assessment tools and techniques to perform investigations and determine appropriate corrective action.
• Leadership experience.
• FSSC (Food Safety System Certifications) certification
• Reviewing and approving quality assurance procedures and reports.
• Leading and managing internal audits.
• Maintaining SOP’s and Quality Management Systems
• Conducting audits (both internal and supplier)
• Monitoring compliance with ISO and FDA Quality System Regulation standards.

Preferred Experience:

• Providing support for customer and regulatory audits.
• Updating approved supplier index.
• Maintaining supplier qualification documents and qualifications of service providers that assure compliance with procedures and programs.
• Deviation and complaint investigations, including root cause analysis tools and technical writing.
• Collecting, reviewing, and interpreting data for trend reports, metrics, quality system reviews and complaints.
• Participating in, coordinating and maintaining validations
• CQE/CQA certification.
• Leading, coordinating and maintaining environmental monitoring programs.

How you will thrive and create an impact:

Collaborating/ interfacing effectively with team members the Quality Assurance Engineer is responsible for quality assurance activities with oversight of the food safety program.  While performing other duties as assigned, this role will be accountable for:

• Investigations
• Quality Management System SOP’s
• Validations
• Quality continuous improvements.

Why Avantor?

Dare to go further in your career. Join our global team of 14,500+ associates whose passion for discovery and determination to overcome challenges relentlessly advances life-changing science.  

The work we do changes people’s lives for the better. It brings new patient treatments and therapies to market, giving a cancer survivor the chance to walk his daughter down the aisle. It enables medical devices that help a little boy hear his mom’s voice for the first time. Outcomes such as these create unlimited opportunities for you to contribute your talents, learn new skills and grow your career at Avantor.  

We are committed to helping you on this journey through our diverse, equitable and inclusive culture which includes learning experiences to support your career growth and success.

At Avantor, dare to go further and see how the impact of your contributions set science in motion to create a better world.

Apply today!

ENVIRONMENTAL WORKING CONDITIONS & PHYSICAL EFFORT

Typically works in an office environment with adequate lighting and ventilation and a normal range of temperature and noise level.

Full time onsite position (no remote working options) that frequently will be present and visible in the production areas, laboratories, and warehouse facilities.

Work assignments are diversified.  Examples of past precedent are used to resolve work problems.  New alternatives may be developed to resolve problems.

A frequent volume of work and deadlines impose strain on routine basis. Minimal physical effort is required.  Work is mostly sedentary but does require walking, standing, bending, reaching, lifting, or carrying objects that typically weigh less than 10 lbs.

Disclaimer:
The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by employees assigned to this classification. They are not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties and skills required of employees assigned to this position. Avantor is proud to be an equal opportunity employer.