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The Sr. Specialist QA Shop Floor overseeing quality activities of the QA shop floor program in accordance with Bristol-Myers Squibb policies, standards, procedures, and Global cGMP. Functional responsibilities include ensuring manufacturing compliance with applicable procedures and batch records, providing real time review of manufacturing batch record documentation and logbooks, and working with operations to resolve manufacturing issues.
Shift Available:
- Monday - Friday, Onsite Day Shift, 9 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Responsibilities:
- Build and maintain relationships with Manufacturing Operations, Quality Control, MSS-PMO, Materials Management, Manufacturing Science & Technology, and other departments to effectively accomplish responsibilities make improvements and resolve issues.
- Ensure manufacturing, QC, and warehouse compliance with applicable procedures and batch records.
- Conduct Quality on the Floor activities including quality walk-throughs of the production, testing and warehouse locations.
- Oversee Apheresis, PBMC and CMAT receiving and Cryopreserved Drug Product.
- Review executed records for documentation completeness and accuracy per ALCOA+.
- Support quality processes, including material disposition, material storage and handling requirements, change controls, product complaints, deviations, investigations, and CAPA management.
- Must have strong authorship and ability to critically review investigations, interpret results and generate technical conclusions consistent with Quality risk management principles.
- Must be skilled in planning and organizing, decision-making, and building relationships.
- Knowledge of quality processes, including material disposition, change control, product complaints, deviations, investigations, and CAPA management.
- Must be able to work in the cleanroom environment for 6-hour time periods.
- Must be flexible for shift hour changes to support manufacturing.
Knowledge & Skills:
- Must have sound knowledge and experience in FDA regulated cGMP Quality Manufacturing operations and processes.
- Directs quality initiatives that accomplish continuous improvement and enhance site quality system efficiencies.
- Must be action-oriented and customer-focused and skilled in decision-making, building relationships, problem solving, conflict management, planning and organizing, resource allocation, coaching others, and analytical thinking.
- Must possess an independent mindset.
- Requires moderate direction to complete more complex tasks; completes routine tasks with little or no supervision.
- Work is self-directed.
- Confident in making decisions for non-routine issues.
- Routinely recognizes and resolves Quality issues; Informs management of proposed solutions. Seeks management guidance on complex issues.
- Develops procedures.
- Proposes solutions for complex issues and works with management to resolve. Follows established procedures and performs work as assigned.
- Intermediate to advanced ability to interpret results and situations and articulate recommendations for resolution.
Basic Requirements:
- Relevant college or university degree preferred. An equivalent combination of education and experience will be considered.
- A minimum 4 years of relevant experience within Quality Assurance within a manufacturing GMP facility.
- A minimum of 2 years hands-on experience in QMS.
- A minimum of 2 years of experience with risk assessments.
- 1 year of deviation experience.
- Strong project management experience.
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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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