Quality Assurance Team Leader

We touch the lives of over 200 million patients every day, and billions every year. After all, everyone needs healthcare or medication at some point. Yet until today, you may not have heard of us. We’re Teva, a global pharmaceutical company, committed to increasing access to high-quality healthcare to patients around the world and we currently have a fantastic opportunity for two Quality Assurance Team Leaders to join our team on a Full Time, Permanent basis in Runcorn.

At Teva Runcorn, we develop, manufacture and market innovative and affordable medicines, specialising in sterile liquid products mainly used for treating respiratory conditions using Blow-Fill-Seal technology as well as injectable Combination Products such as our MS treatment Copaxone.

The purpose of this role is to Support and develop QA officers, implement and maintain quality standards and systems to ensure that products comply with Marketing Authorisations, specifications and cGMP.

Key Responsibilities

• Support Quality Assurance Officers. Providing support and coaching to the team. To provide cover for QA manager as required.

• Manage release activities to ensure plan adherence

• Review and approve quality control documentation to ensure compliance with cGMP

• Prepare and complete product quality reviews, quality reports and stability reports to ensure compliance with regulatory requirements

• Close out failure investigations and preventative actions to reduce repeat failures ensuring site targets for close out of actions are achieved

• To review and approve batch manufacturing documentation within agreed timelines to support product release – meeting release requirements

• Carry out audits to support the identification, actioning and close out of non-compliance issues

• Support QA Operations team as required with day to day activities within the QA role.

Do you have?

• A degree background within a relevant science based discipline

• Experience in pharmaceutical industry in similar role

• Experience across the following areas is essential within this role:

  • Sterile Manufacturing experience and how GMP requirements relate to production and packaging

  • Validation principles and procedures

  • An understanding of utilities, facilities, equipment and process validation requirements

  • EU and US regulatory guidelines and the product licensing processes

  • The principles of sterilisation and aseptic processing

  • Root cause analysis and Risk management

    
    

Are You?

• Someone that understands the need for quality with a keen eye for detail

• A leader that energizes and inspires their team to high performance standards

• A confident communicator across personnel at all levels

  
  

If so – we would love to hear from you!

• 22.5 days paid shift holidays leave per year - with the option to buy and sell up to 3 shifts each year.

• Company pension – flexible employee contributions

• Competitive salary

• Employee assistance programme

• A number of health benefits including: Life Assurance, Critical Illness Insurance, Income protection

• Plus many other flexible benefits via salary sacrifice: Cycle to work scheme, online and in store discounts and much more

If you are a current Teva employee, please apply using the internal career site available on "Employee Central". By doing so, your application will be treated with priority. You will also be able to see opportunities that are open exclusively to Teva employees. Use the following link to search and apply: Internal Career Site

The internal career site is available from your home network as well. If you have trouble accessing your EC account, please contact your local HR/IT partner.

The deadline for internal applications will be Friday 10th March 2023 #TJ

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