QA Supervisor

**QA Supervisor - GMP / pharmaceuticals**

**Livingston - permanent role**

**If you are keen to enhance your experience and career within an exciting International Scientific organisation offering a superb working environment, superb benefits and careers, this could be the role for you**

**The overall objective of this job role is to supervise, guide and manage the tasks and workloads of an expanding QA team. Your remit will be to effectively plan and track all activities for the team to maintain the compliance of manufacturing and all associated support activities, batch release and regulatory requirements for the site.**

**Your remit will be highly varied and will include -**
- ** Plan, organise and track team routine daily activities to ensure on time completion to meet site requirements. These activities include but are not limited to**:

- **Batch record review**:

- **Co-ordination of activities to ensure effective operation of QMS,**:

- **Review and closure of Site QMS,**:

- **Review of new and updated documentation**:

- **Batch release activities**:

- T**emperature excursions, Product technical complaints.**:

- **Validation**:

- **Internal/External Audits and In process inspections**:

- **Support to distribution network**:

- Supplier Assurance
- Deviations/Investigations
- Data Integrity
- Software projects/IT compliance
- Change Control (SmartChange)
- Training (SmartTrain)
- Document Control (SmartDoc) Validation
- Plan, organise and track team routine daily activities to ensure all QA QMS is completed on time
- Provide support for the delivery and presentation of key quality metrics for the site and QA department for presentation and discussion at the monthly meeting.
- Take ownership for team specific processes as defined by the Head of the department.
- Provide support to the Head of QA in relation to regulatory inspections by supporting preparation, hosting, back room support, responding to observations and closure of actions as required.
- Educated to at least degree level in a relevant discipline (Biology, Chemistry, Pharmacy) or equivalent experience
- Experienced in EU and FDA cGMP / GDP regulatory requirements for Quality Systems, including Supplier Management and Internal/External Auditing
- Verifiable supervisory experience in Quality Assurance
- Experience working within a GMP / GDP manufacturing environment
- Proven track record of supervising teams
- Previous experience of working to tight deadlines and re-prioritising workload
- Proven experience of working with operational excellence improvement tools
- Experience of leading and delivering quality metrics

**This is a superb opportunity to join a highly successful company in a highly varied role**

**The role is on a permanent basis with an attractive salary and benefits package including bonus and private health care & more.**

Status: Permanent
Rate: highly competitive salary & superb benefits package

Location: Livingston