Quality Assurance Validation Associate

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As a Quality Assurance Validation Associate, you will work as part of cross-functional teams providing quality oversight, review, and approval of validation deliverables and change controls to ensure that products and processes meet appropriate regulatory agency validation requirements, internal company standards and current industry practices. This position will typically focus on disciplines related to facilities, utilities, equipment, process qualification, cleaning, QC methods and instruments, computer systems validation and data integrity.

• Responsible for reviewing validation documents, against Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for accuracy and compliance with procedures, based on regulatory requirements and internal guidelines.
• Review from a quality perspective the validation documentation required to assure the proper development of a project and support regulatory submissions.
• Responsible for reviewing Validation Master Plans, Design Qualification, Installation Qualification, Operational Qualification, Performance Qualification, Computer System Validation, and Validation Maintenance packages in accordance with existing procedures. Reviews deliverables for compliance with existing requirements. Approves documentation related to system decommissioning.
• Provide validation expertise and support for the development (or modification phases) of manufacturing facility, utilities, systems, process and information and Computerized System; address, include and implement all the applicable QA requirements.
• Participate in the risk assessment related to the project.
• Assure requirements traceability throughout the whole project life cycle.
• Provide support in all quality-related issues, including GMP regulations
• Assess and approve Change controls, CAPAs and deviations to ensure conformance to regulatory agency requirements, company standards and industry best practices
• Take part in internal/external audits.
• Maintain project metrics to communicate risk trends and implementation readiness to support project timelines and commercial readiness
• May perform other duties as assigned.

• Bachelor’s Degree in Biotechnology, Microbiology, Pharmacy or equivalent is strongly preferred.
• Minimum of 5 years of experience in Pharmaceutical, Biopharmaceutical or related manufacturing environment, or an advanced degree.
• Experience in pharmaceutical/biotech validation which includes the writing and executing of protocols.
• Proficiency in electronic document management systems (e.g. Veeva, Kneat, ALM)
• Strong knowledge of US GMP/EU regulations and GxP guidelines.
• Extensive cross-functional team experience, including technical and non-technical work.

At Takeda, our patients rely on us to deliver quality products. As a result, we must follow strict rules in our manufacturing facilities to ensure we are not endangering the quality of the product. In this role, you may:

• Work in a controlled environment requiring special gowning and wear protective clothing over the head, face, hands, feet and body. This may include additional hearing protection for loud areas.
• Need to remove all make-up, jewelry, contact lenses, nail polish and/or artificial fingernails while in the manufacturing environment.
• Work in a cold, wet environment.
• Work multiple shifts, including weekends, or be asked to work supplemental hours, as necessary.
• Work around chemicals such as alcohol, acids, buffers and Celite that may require respiratory protection.
• In general, position requires both sedentary work and walking through facility
• Wrist and hand motion (typing, writing)
• Must be able to occasionally visit controlled or clean room environments requiring gowning. May be required to wear personal protective equipment (PPE) and other clean room garments daily (may include safety shoes, safety glasses, lab coats, full body gowns, goggles, hair covers, and gloves. No make-up, jewelry, contact lenses, nail polish, or artificial nails may be worn in these environments.
• Although assignments will be made specific to working hours, flexibility is expected, with the…