Senior Quality Engineer

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• Ensures and supports Operations of European Distribution Center (DC Courcelles) in Good Distribution Practices in the warehouse.

• Assists the Site Quality Head in implementing and maintaining Quality System DC Courcelles.

• Works in line with Credo Values, Supply Chain and J&J Deliver Requirements.

• Works in line with the J&J Safety, Health and Environmental principles.

• Participates to the process improvement as process owner.

Essential duties and responsibilities:

Audits & inspections

• Leads, supports and follows-up of internal and external inspections.

• Supports and actively participates to quality internal/external audits.

• Performs pro-active GAP analysis against applicable requirements and/or regulations and sets-up corrective actions to support business continuity.

• This include audits preparation, audits completion and audits follow-up.

Change control

• Initiates, assesses and/or approves Change Controls related to DC distribution activities and repackaging activities.

Documentation

• Writes, (periodic) reviews and/or approves Work Instructions (WI) and Procedures (SOP)

• Collaborates with other departments for documentation content and ensure Good Documentation Practices are followed.

• Archives quality documents and/or repack/relabel records following the record retention period and archiving system.

Improvement

• Provides data/information for the Quality Improvement Plan (QIP) and the Quality Management Review (QMR) meetings

• Supports and performs trend analysis and proposes corrective actions where needed.

• Reviews and improves processes of the QMS, ensures that KPIs are in place.

• Participates to the process improvement as process owner.

Non- conformities & Delivery Service Issues

• Initiates, assess, investigates, and/or approves Quality Issues, Corrective and Preventive actions and Delivery service issues related to distribution activities to avoid reoccurrences.

• Assess if record is applicable for escalation and initiates appropriate process

Project

• Participates, follows up and/or leads development of projects implementation in collaboration with Operations, Region and/or Franchises

• Provides QA Team with project progress on a regular basis

QA on the floor

• Supports operations to work in compliance with GMP (where applicable) and GDP requirements

• Performs Gemba Walks on a regular basis

• Joins weekly operational kick-off

• Works actively and proposes operational improvements

Repack activities:

• Supports for batch release & EDC traceability and repack/relabel documentation (Master Batch Record, SOP/WI, ...)

Risk management

• Identifies, prioritizes and mitigates quality risks related to QA and operational processes

Training & Qualification

• Delivers qualification to warehouse personnel to ensure operational personnel has an appropriate understanding of the process/activity

• Reviews training curricula and creates training materials (where applicable)

Special requirements

• Refer to essential knowledge section.

• Current Good Documentation practices

• ISO 13485

Essential knowledge and skills

• Higher education / Master's degree or equivalent years of experience

• QA related experience within an operational pharmaceutical environment

• Knowledge of quality system processes such as Training, Document Management, Change Control, CAPA, Investigation, Audit

• Knowledge of all QMS elements or local regulations

• Analytical thinking, risk assessment, communication and managerial skills

Core competencies required for this role

• French and English

• Good knowledge of Microsoft Office applications (Word, Excel,…)

• Good knowledge of Good Documentation Practices

• Team player

• Problem solver – structured & analytical way of working

• Result oriented

• Can work independently, well organized, able to set priorities and escalates issues if needed.

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Working arrangement:

3 days working on site and 2 days working from home per week.

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