Manager Quality Validation

Description

Core Hours

Monday - Friday, 8 : 00 am - 5 : 00 pm

Purpose and Scope

The Quality Validation Manager is responsible for managing and providing oversight for projects and team members executing validation deliverables for all local manufacturing sites. Responsibilities include qualifications and validations of equipment, utilities, facilities, cleaning, and aseptic process simulations. The manager ensures compliance with local and regulatory guidelines and requirements are met.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities

• Provide leadership in a fast-paced production environment with high quality and regulatory standards; supervise the Validation Engineers.
• Provide direction, mentoring, coaching and development to team members to support personal growth, enhanced job performance and career satisfaction.
• Create, write, and update validation guidelines, policies and procedures.
• Maintain the site's comprehensive Validation Master Plan (VMP), covering facility, equipment, utilities, cleaning, and process validation
• Support the sterility assurance program, including aseptic process simulation (media fills), and contamination control strategies.
• Review and approve risk assessments, deviation investigations, and CAPAs related to validation.
• Work with the quality, production, engineering, maintenance, and development departments to ensure that all required prerequisite documentation is appropriately developed.
• Track and provide technical direction to validation activities to ensure compliance with internal policies and procedures, current industry standards, cGMPs and current regulatory requirements.
• Review product transfer protocols and reports; design and develop a validation strategies.
• Provide validation support to aseptic manufacturing, assess impact to product quality, and determine appropriate actions.
• Serve as quality reviewer and approver for validation protocols and reports; assist in development and execution as needed.
• Coordinate validations for equipment and / or processes with outside vendors.
• Ensure compliance with all applicable regulatory requirements (FDA, EMA, ICH, ISO) and serve as a subject matter expert (SME) during regulatory inspections and customer audits.
• Conduct and participate in investigative meetings relating to validation manufacturing test failures; assess impact of production deviations.
• Review and approve validation test protocols and final reports.
• Maintain up-to-date knowledge of cGMP regulatory issues, particularly pertaining to validation, and ensure that company validation policies and procedures are updated accordingly.
• Contribute to the development of departmental budget and monitor expenditures.
• Select, develop, and evaluate validation employees to ensure functional objectives are met.
• Manage the validation systems' periodic review and change control activities.
• Work closely with cross-functional teams to ensure compliance and maintain systems in a validated state.
• Collaborate closely with manufacturing, quality, engineering, and R&D to ensure validation and sterility assurance activities align with production schedules and project timelines.
• Participate in required annual hazardous waste training. Hazardous waste involvement may include but is not limited to container and tank management and inspections, generation of hazardous waste as a part of production or sampling processes and transfer of hazardous waste between lab procedure area, satellite accumulation and storage. Respond to spills per the Chemical Spill Procedures.
• Perform other related duties as assigned.

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

Core Values

This position is expected to operate within the framework of Tolmar's Core Values :

Education & Experience

Working Conditions

Compensation and Benefits

Tolmar compensation programs are focused on equitable, fair pay practices including market-based base pay and a strong benefits package. The final compensation offered may vary from the posted range based on the selected candidates qualifications and experience.

Tolmar is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We do not discriminate on the basis age 40 and over, color, disability, gender identity, genetic information, military or veteran status, national origin, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation or any other applicable status protected by state or local law. It is our intention that all qualified applicants be given equal opportunity and that selection decisions are based on job-related factors.

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