Plant Quality Manager

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At Par Health, we believe great healthcare is built on getting the essentials right. We’re looking for passionate, talented individuals who share our commitment to improving lives. With 4,000+ team members worldwide, we lead with pride and purpose—prioritizing quality and safety while fostering a culture of continuous improvement, accountability, and teamwork. Elevating the Essentials isn’t just our tagline, it’s the higher standard we live by every day.

The Plant Quality Manager directs the operation of the Greenville Quality Department to ensure product quality and regulatory compliance. The Quality Manager will champion the continued transformation of the Greenville Site to pharmaceutical intermediate finished drug product for further processing standards while achieving stated departmental and business objectives. The Quality Manager will operate the Site Quality System by evaluating, analyzing, and reporting on product and process quality performance and GMP compliance.

S/he will exercise full autonomy for determination of key compliance activities and administration of Quality Systems to meet regulatory, plant, or customer needs and serve as the final Quality contact for decisions of functional responsibility.

• Provides overall direction and leadership of the Site Quality System by: assuring good manufacturing practice compliance for plant, laboratory operations, and manufacturing records (includes systems for CAPA, exceptions, document management, complaint handling, supplier quality, OOS investigations, stability programs, and regulatory inspection readiness); assuring intermediate finished drug product for further processing quality; assuring proper use of raw materials; directing sampling and inspection of raw materials and finished products;
  
  and by auditing the components to ensure that they operate in accordance with established procedures and regulatory requirements.
• Ensures FDA, EU, and International Regulatory inspection readiness through the development of compliance enhancement plans, internal audit programs, and industry intelligence.
• Manages the customer complaint program, including interaction with customers and resolution of critical issues.
• Manages the supplier quality program to fulfill regulatory and site needs.
• Conducts and/or administers new employee, ongoing, and directed training on GMP topics to ensure compliance to regulations.
• Manages the CAPA program to effectively identify and correct problems that affect product quality or compliance.
• Manages all validation activities for new, altered, or modified equipment, facilities, or manufacturing processes.
• Manages the customer audit process (approximately 20/yr.) to include preparation, hosting, and responding to issues noted – also, utilize input from customer audits as a continuous improvement tool.
• Documents management and label control to fulfill regulatory and business needs.
• Administers the stability program for both API and intermediate drug products manufactured at the site.
• Approves highly technical investigations involving product impact.
• Sets direction and policies for cGMP compliance activities.
• Schedules employees, performance appraisals, and performance management of team members.
• Budgets and adherence for areas of functional responsibility.
• Direct interaction with key customers relating to technical issues, potential non-compliance activities, or service issues impacted by quality/compliance.
• Resolution of critical quality issues that could affect production, customer service, quality, or compliance.
• Interprets regulatory guidance to determine site course of action for compliance.
• Technical expert in multiple quality functional areas, such as validation, product investigations, quality systems, and establishing compliance plans, etc.

Bachelor's degree in chemistry, microbiology or similar life sciences or technical field

• Minimum of 7-10 years of pharmaceutical industry experience in a Quality Assurance function…