Qc Supervisor

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**Description Overview**:
Reporting to the QC laboratory Manager, responsible for supervising the Routine Stability Testing and Stability Coordination teams.

Ensure that long term, on-going stability programme for products marketed by Perrigo and contract customers is managed efficiently, and in compliance with cGMP/ICH requirements.

Chemical testing, paperwork and conclusions are right first time, tested and passed within lead times.

**Scope of the Role**:
**Planning and Schedule Adherence**:

- Manage people and equipment resources appropriately to ensure current and future demand can be accommodated
- Manage day to day workload and scheduling ensuring that batches are consistently set down on stability, tested at each time point, passed, and concluded inside lead times
- Measure defined KPI to manage the throughput and quality output of the function
- Actively manage technical, relational, and organisational issues which may cause delay, identifying both root cause and appropriate short term and long-term corrective actions to prevent reoccurrence
- Proactively manage team holiday, absence, and wellbeing to ensure adequate staffing levels

**People and Team Management**:

- Provide clear direction to the team in alignment with business and departmental objectives
- Personally demonstrate and foster the Perrigo Core Values in all aspects of individual and team working
- Ensure all staff have a development and training plan and clear personal objectives to develop a strong, motivated team
- Manage day to day performance of the team, ensuring all team members can contribute effectively - provide recognition and reward for good performance and ensure that improvement measures are in place for under-performance
- Flex resource deployment to provide Right First Time, On Time testing
- Actively focus on continual improvement of employee engagement

**Cross Functional Working and Interaction**:

- Maintain positive and effective relationships with all other functions, specifically, packing, project management and regulatory
- Work collaboratively in cross functional teams to deliver business objectives and resolve problems
- Use principles of voice of the customer to identify requirements and expectations of internal customers
- Communicate function performance clearly
- Ensure mechanisms are in place for early communication of problems that may impact other departments and steps taken to resolve

**Compliance to cGMP**:

- Ensure that stability studies are set down, tested, and concluded in line with current procedures and these procedures are aligned with cGMP, ICH, and relevant quality standards
- Ensure all methods are suitable and validated
- Actively manage data integrity
- Ensure that stability chambers are maintained
- Investigate all non-conformance and out of specifications to identify root cause and implement corrective actions
- Investigate all adverse genuine stability trends and make recommendations i.e., reporting failures to DMRC, reducing shelf life, changing packaging materials

**Innovation and Operational Excellence**:

- Use the principles of operational excellence and lean management in operation of the function: - visual management, managing for daily improvement, etc
- Measure the performance of the function for quality timeliness and efficiency to identify improvement opportunities
- Stay abreast of industry innovation in testing, analytical methods, and cGMP

**Budgetary Control**:

- Manage overtime effectively ensuing any overtime is agreed in advance
- Manage and control spending for consumables associated with all testing activities
- Identify capital expenditure items required to continue the effective functioning of the department prior to breakdown
- To undertake such other reasonable duties as may be required from time to time to support the Perrigo business.

**Experience Required**:

- Minimum of a Scientific degree of equivalent, although relevant experience and demonstrated competence may be considered in place of formal qualification
- 5 years’ experience of working in a cGMP or other regulated laboratory environment
- 3 years’ supervisory experience
- Familiarity and experience with both instrumental and wet chemistry techniques
- Understanding of data integrity principles and control methods
- Familiarity with statistical techniques
- We are an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, status as a protected veteran, or other characteristics protected by law. Our full Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action Policy Statement is available on our main career site in _**_English_**_ and _**_Spanish_**_ and will be provided in other a