Senior Manager, Quality

Opportunity

Avantor is looking for a dedicated and passionate Sr. Quality Manager to oversee our Manufacturing Quality organization at our Phillipsburg, NJ site, advocating for customers and collaborating with internal and external partners to achieve business and operational metric success. You will have the opportunity to lead continuous improvement activities to achieve a compliant, effective, and efficient Quality Management System. The position scope includes all elements of the Quality Management System, Quality Assurance, and the Quality Control Laboratory throughout the product lifecycle.

Lead continuous improvement activities; oversee Quality Management System and Quality Assurance; manage Quality Control Laboratory; ensure compliance with cGMP (Part 210/211, ICHQ7, IPEC); conduct audit management, qualification and validations, supplier management, incoming inspection, non-conformance management, material review board, QC analytical testing, batch release, customer feedback, field actions, CAPA, risk management, management of change, documentation management, training, and development; make sound quality decisions based on data analysis and risk;

drive transformational change; provide strong quality leadership, systems, and process leadership; and communicate effectively internally and externally.

Bachelor’s Degree required

• Minimum 8 years of Quality experience in a cGMP (Part 210/211, ICHQ7, IPEC) chemical manufacturing environment
• Quality experience includes: audit management, qualification and validations, supplier management, incoming inspection, non-conformance management, material review board, QC analytical testing, batch release, customer feedback, field actions, CAPA, risk management, management of change, documentation management, training, and development
• Minimum 5 years of experience managing people
• Minimum 5 years of experience leading Quality transformational change or continuous improvement

• Bachelor’s Degree in Chemistry, Life Science(s), Quality, or related field
• People management in a union environment
• Membership in Quality related industry associations (e.g. American Society for Quality)
• Certification in ISO 9001 Lead Auditor, ASQ, iPEC, Lean, Six Sigma

• Strong Quality leadership, management, and knowledge
• Strong people, systems, and process leadership skills
• Excellent interpersonal skills, peer collaboration, negotiation and influencing skills
• Ability to make sound Quality decisions, with a significant impact, based on data analysis, facts and associated risk
• Comfortable in a fast-paced, sophisticated, and regulated manufacturing environment with competing priorities
• Lead the deployment of Quality philosophies, principles, methods and techniques (TPC, LSS, TQM, PFMEA, SPC, PLA, etc.)
• Technical adept in chemical manufacturing processes
• Ability to transform challenges
• Demonstrates strong drive for results and emotional control in difficult circumstances
• Excellent communication skills, written and verbal
• Commitment to quality and discernment for business

The expected pre-tax pay for this position is $ - $. Actual pay may differ depending on relevant factors such as prior experience and geographic location.

Avantor offers a comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, and vision coverage, wellness programs, health savings and flexible spending accounts, a 401(k) plan with company match, an employee stock purchase program. Employees also receive 11 paid holidays, accrue 18 PTO days annually, are eligible for volunteer time off and 6 weeks of 100% paid parental leave (except in states that offer paid family leave).

These benefits may not apply to employees covered by a collective bargaining agreement or those subject to other eligibility rules.

We are an Equal Employment/Affirmative Action employer and VEVRAA Federal Contractor. We do not discriminate in hiring on the basis of sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religious creed, national origin, physical or mental disability, protected Veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state/province, or local law. If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process, please contact us by email at r and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information.

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