Releaser, QA

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We are seeking a Quality Assurance Releaser to join our Stockport Compounding site on a rotational shift of 6am-2pm and 2pm-10pm, Monday to Friday.

• Product Release
  • Rotational shift, 6am to 2pm and 2pm to 10pm alternating weekly.
  • Responsible for ensuring that all product released meets specification and customer requirements.
  • Responsible for ensuring that all product undergoes effective visual inspection, release checks and has been manufactured in compliance with GMP and quality system requirements.
  • Responsible for ensuring no product is released before a formal assessment for the impact of the deviation is made and a disposition is approved.
  • Responsible for ensuring the disposition of products and raw materials/components impacted by non-conformances is appropriately documented and completed in a timely manner.

• Communication and Training
  • Regularly communicates with all site staff regarding quality issues and promotes the quality system as a business process for improvement of customer satisfaction and regulatory compliance
  • Attends and participates in QA Team meetings
  • Ensures their own understand their responsibilities under the quality system regulations
  • Ensures training is delivered with staff to enable them to complete their jobs in compliance with the Baxter quality systems and country regulations
  • Supports the communication of changes of the quality system to staff, ensuring appropriate training programs are executed.

• Quality System Measurement and Review
  • Attends and participates in monthly quality review meetings when required
  • Ensure assigned meeting actions are completed to agreed deadlines

• Complaints
  • Ensures all incidents reported by customers are appropriately escalated to line management
  • Management of complaints using the pilgrim PMDA software if required
  • Raising supplier complaints with Line management to address out of specification raw material issues

• Non-Conformance and Corrective and Preventative Action (CAPA)
  • Ensure that any failure to follow procedure or failure of product to meet specification is fully documented and investigated
  • Initiation and investigation of Non-conformance/CAPA event reports as required
  • Monitor all quality system processes to detect need for improvements
  • Non-Conformance/CAPA owner and leader as required
  • When required, ensure Non-conformance/CAPA investigations are completed and root cause identified and that appropriate actions are specified and completed according to agreed time frames

• Change Control
  • When required, maintain a local change control process to ensure all changes are fully documented
  • Support the assessment for risk and impact prior to change implementation
  • Support the implementation of changes as per impact assessment and in the appropriate time frame

• Validation
  • Responsible for Approval of validation protocols and reports if required

• GMP and Facilities and Equipment Control
  • Responsible for the Quality review of environmental monitoring results when required
  • Support Environmental, Health & Safety (EHS) programme

• Risk Assessment
• Supports the site risk management process
• Supports the update of risk assessments as a result of quality system measurement and review and change management.
• Actively manages risks by identifying potential failure modes.

• Audit Management
  • Ensures that the facility is always ready for an internal,  Corporate, MHRA or 3rd party audit
  • Support the audit processes to ensure effective audit management

• Document and Data Management
  • Ensures there are no unauthorized changes to documents including creation of local documentation.
  • Ensures all quality records are reviewed and that they are complete, comprehensive and legible and comply with good documentation practice.
  • Ensures are quality records are retained in such a way that they remain complete, comprehensive and legible

What are some of the benefits of working at Baxter?

• Competitive total compensation package
• Professional development opportunities
• High importance placed on work life balance

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