Senior QA Engineer, Drug Substance

Position Overview

The Senior QA Engineer, Drug Substance will serve as a Quality Assurance Specialist responsible for manufacturing quality assurance, working directly with Manufacturing staff during drug substance operations to support real-time decisions on quality requirements and deviations. This role fosters strong partnership and knowledge sharing between Manufacturing and Quality teams while providing coaching, guidance, and direction to Manufacturing, Quality Control, Supply Chain, and Facilities & Engineering staff on compliance, quality systems, day-to-day QA oversight, and issue resolution or mitigation.

Additionally, this role participates in optimization or improvement initiatives and supports regulatory agency and third-party inspections.

FUJIFILM Biotechnologies is building the future of bioproduction in Holly Springs, North Carolina. By end of 2025, we’ll open North America’s largest end-to-end CDMO biopharmaceutical manufacturing facility, offering drug substance production, fill-finish, and packaging under one roof.

We’re looking for passionate, mission-driven people to help us realize this exciting vision and deliver the next vaccine, cure, or therapy. We offer a dynamic work environment and we’re proud to cultivate a culture that will fuel your purpose, energy, and drive—what we call Genki. Ready to shape the future of medicine? Let’s transform healthcare together!

Holly Springs, North Carolina, combines small-town warmth with proximity to Raleigh’s thriving tech scene, making it the perfect blend of community and opportunity.

Fujifilm is globally headquartered in Tokyo with over 70,000 employees across four key business segments of healthcare, electronics, business innovation, and imaging. We are guided and united by our Group Purpose of “giving our world more smiles.” Visit:

What You’ll Do

• Responsible for providing Quality oversight to ensure that Drug Substance is manufactured, tested, stored, and distributed according to current Good Manufacturing Practices (cGMP), Good Distribution Practices (GDP) and other applicable regulations.
• Ensure that facilities, equipment, materials, organization, processes, and procedures comply with applicable regulations and Fujifilm requirements relating to Good Manufacturing Practices, Good Documentation Practices, Safety, and other controls.
• Performs review and approval of cGMP processes, procedures, documents and records, including but not limited to Batch Production Records, Deviations, work-orders, Change Controls and Corrective Action/Preventative Actions (CAPA).
• Author/review/approve quality documents, such as SOPs, user requirements, risk assessments, training materials, engineering documents, automation documents, environmental qualification protocols/reports, validation protocols/reports.
• Oversee and provide guidance during on-the-floor analytical testing.
• Ensure that production records and testing results are complete, accurate, and documented according to written procedures and cGMP requirements.
• Ensure that changes that could potentially impact product quality are assessed according to procedures.
• Ensure that deviations from established procedures are investigated and documented per procedures.
• Alert senior management of quality, compliance, supply and safety risks.
• Provide project management support, leading efforts to drive timely achievement of tasks and develop strategies for system implementation.
• Identification and implementation of continuous improvement opportunities within our processes and systems.
• Support and represent manufacturing QA during audits and inspections; may directly interact with regulatory agencies during on-site inspections.
• Performs other duties, as assigned.

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