Manufacturing Quality Assurance Analyst

Manufacturing Quality Assurance Analyst III, Albuquerque, NM

Build your future at Curia, where our work has the power to save lives!

Curia is a global contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO) with over 30 years of experience partnering with pharmaceutical and biotech companies to provide life‑saving treatments to patients. At Curia, we are on a mission to advance our customers’ therapies from curiosity to cure and ultimately to improve patients’ lives.

• Generous benefit options (eligible first day of employment)
• Paid training, vacation and holidays (vacation accrual begins on first day of employment)
• Career advancement opportunities
• Education reimbursement
• 401K program with matching contributions
• Learning platform
• And more!

The Manufacturing Quality Assurance (MQA) Analyst III is a senior‑level quality professional responsible for providing independent, floor‑based quality oversight of sterile manufacturing operations. This role serves as Quality’s primary presence in manufacturing areas, proactively monitoring operations, reviewing records and logbooks, assessing adherence to aseptic requirements and identifying compliance concerns before they impact product quality or manufacturing performance.

Working closely with Manufacturing, Microbiology, Validation, Training, Technical Operations, and other support functions, the MQA Analyst III evaluates manufacturing activities in real time, assesses operational and quality risks and provides timely quality decisions to support compliant execution of manufacturing operations. This position requires strong technical expertise in sterile manufacturing, aseptic processing, contamination control and cGMP compliance, as well as the ability to identify potential issues, determine risk to product quality and manufacturing operations and proactively drive resolution of quality concerns.

• Provide routine floor‑based quality oversight of sterile manufacturing operations to ensure compliance with cGMP requirements, approved procedures, aseptic practices and site quality standards.
• Maintain a visible quality presence in manufacturing areas and independently monitor manufacturing activities, personnel practices and operational execution.
• Perform real‑time review of batch records, logbooks, equipment records and supporting documentation to identify errors, omissions, discrepancies and data integrity concerns before completion of manufacturing activities.
• Review and verify critical manufacturing parameters, sterilization records and related process documentation to ensure compliance with approved procedures and validated requirements.
• Conduct line clearances, room inspections, area walkthroughs, and operational readiness assessments prior to and during manufacturing activities.
• Evaluate manufacturing operations for compliance with contamination control, aseptic processing, gowning, cleaning, disinfection and sterile manufacturing requirements. Identify, assess, document, and promptly elevate quality events, procedural deviations, documentation errors, compliance concerns, and potential product quality impacts.
• Perform risk assessments and provide independent quality decisions regarding manufacturing events, documentation discrepancies, process deviations and operational issues.
• Assess the potential impact of manufacturing events on product quality, patient safety, sterility assurance, regulatory compliance and manufacturing operations.
• Partner with Manufacturing and supporting departments to proactively resolve quality and compliance issues before they result in product impact, batch delays or manufacturing disruptions.
• Provide quality oversight and support during manufacturing interventions, aseptic processing…