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Quality Assurance Shop Floor is responsible for quality activities supporting Manufacturing Operations in accordance with Bristol-Myers Squibb policies, standards, procedures, and Global cGMP. Functional responsibilities include ensuring manufacturing compliance with applicable procedures, providing a real-time review of manufacturing records and logbooks, and working with Manufacturing Operations to resolve issues. Must be available to work weekends and off shifts.
Shifts Available:
- Sunday - Wednesday (every other Wed off), Onsite Evening Shift, 4 p.m. - 4:30 a.m.
Responsibilities:
- Build and maintain relationships with Manufacturing Operations, Quality Control, Manufacturing Science & Technology, and other departments to effectively accomplish responsibilities, make improvements and resolve issues
- Perform QA shop floor activities, focused on Manufacturing Operations
- Ensure compliance with applicable procedures and production requirements
- Perform real-time review of manufacturing records. Must have strong authorship and ability to critically review investigations, interpret results and generate technical conclusions consistent with Quality risk management principles
- Directs quality initiatives that accomplish continuous improvement and enhance site quality system efficiencies
- Routinely recognizes and resolves Quality issues; Informs management of proposed solutions
- Seeks management guidance on complex issues
- Develops and revise procedures
Knowledge & Skills:
- Must be action-oriented and skilled in decision-making, building relationships, problem-solving, conflict management, planning and organizing, resource allocation, coaching others, and analytical thinking
- Understands continuous improvement and improves efficiency and productivity within the group or project
- Builds relationships internally within and with cross-functional teams. Contributes to goals within the workgroup
- Ability to direct quality initiatives that accomplish continuous improvement and enhance site quality system efficiencies
- Possess sound knowledge of FDA-regulated cGMP Quality Manufacturing operations and processes and global cGMP requirements
- Must be skilled in planning and organizing, decision-making, and building relationships
- Knowledge of quality processes, including material disposition, material storage, and handling requirements, change control, product complaints, deviations, investigations, and CAPA management
- Able to recognize conflict and notify management with proposed recommendations for resolution.
- Possess an independent mindset. Work is self-directed
- Requires moderate direction to complete more complex tasks; completes routine tasks with little or no supervision
- Confident in making decisions for non-routine issue
- Intermediate to advanced ability to interpret results and situations and articulate recommendations for resolution
- Able to prepare written communications and communicate problems to management with clarity and accuracy
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
Basic Requirements:
- Associate degree.
- 1 year of experience working in a manufacturing GMP aseptic environment.
- 1 year of Quality Assurance experience within a cGMP environment.
- 1 year of deviation experience (to include strong technical writing).
- Available for weekend and off-shift hours.
Preferred Requirements:
- Bachelor's Degree preferred.
- 3 years of cGMP Quality Manufacturing operations and processes work experience.
- Quality Assurance Shop Floor Manufacturing roles/experience highly desired (Ex. Quality Operations, In-process QA, IPQA, Quality Inspectors).
Working Conditions:
- Work is performed in a combination of manufacturing cleanroom and office environments, with standard office equipment available and used.
- Work is generally performed gowned in a cleanroom environment, generally seated but may require standing and walking for up to 50% of the time.
- Lighting and temperature are adequate and there are no abnormal conditions caused by noise, dust, etc.
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On-site Protocol BMS has a diverse occupancy structure that determines where an employee is required to conduct their work. This structure includes site-essential, site-by-design, field-based and remote-by-design jobs. The occupancy type that you are assigned is determined by the nature and responsibilities of your role:
Site-essential roles require 100% of shifts onsite at your assigned facility. Site-by-design roles may be eligible for a hybrid work model with at least 50% onsite at your assigned facility. For these roles, onsite presence is considered an essential job function and is critical to collaboration, innovation, productivity, and a positive Company culture. For field-based and remote-by-design roles the ability to physically travel to visit customers, patients or business partners and to attend meetings on behalf of BMS as directed is an essential job function.
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