Quality Assurance Engineer Jobs in San Jose, CA

Your Role:

This position supports the implementation of the quality systems in compliance with cGMPs and other company policies.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Perform review of batch records for final product, cell banks including in-process testing, QC release testing data packages, labeling, packaging, and all supporting documentation.
• Inspect, review, and disposition raw materials, reagents and components.
• Facilitate investigations relating to manufactured products and raw materials.
• Provide QA oversight during GMP manufacturing operations.
• Conduct line clearances, in-process inspections, support final product packaging operations, etc.
• Support the implementation of the Change Control, Deviation Reporting and CAPA programs.
• Review and revise standard operating procedures, study protocols and reports, etc.
• Coordinate release final cell-based therapeutic products for clinical applications.
• Participate in audit of internal departments, external suppliers, and service providers and completion of audit reports as needed.
• Review and approve validation and qualification packages including installation, operation, and performance qualifications (IQ, OQ, PQ) protocols and reports as necessary.
• Train and provide QA guidance to internal functional groups on Quality Systems.
• Provide environmental monitoring support as needed.
• Other duties as assigned.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in life science or equivalent with 6-10 years of direct QA experience related to GMP Manufacturing in the biotechnology or pharmaceutical industry.
• Experience in cell-based therapeutics or biopharmaceuticals preferred. Must have strong knowledge of cGMPs.
• Must have excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Schedule: 8:00am to 5:00pm with irregular hours/weekends/nights.

Physical Demands:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to walk; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms, talk, and hear. The employee is required to stand; climb or balance and stoop, kneel, crouch. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 35 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus. Must have ability to handle more than one task at a time and must work at a rapid pace while maintaining attention to detail.

Work Environment:

This job is performed in a temperature-controlled facility without exposure to extreme hot or cold temperatures. Generally, this job is performed in a cleanroom setting and routinely uses standard medical and research equipment such as centrifuges, biosafety cabinets, microscopes, incubators, chromatography devices and columns, tangential-flow filtration devices and filters, peristaltic pumps and metering fill pumps, pipettes and computers. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently exposed to blood, viruses, bacteria, body fluids and other tissues. Employees entering and leaving the laboratory must wear appropriate clothing and protective equipment such as lab coats, glasses and gloves. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

The anticipated base salary range has been established at $120,988 - $142,405/year. The salary of the finalist(s) selected for this role will be set based on a variety of factors, including but not limited to, internal equity, experience, education, specialization, skills, abilities, and training. The above salary range represents the Company’s good faith and reasonable estimate of the range of possible compensation at the time of posting. In addition to your salary, the Company offers a comprehensive benefits package including health, vision, and dental insurance, plus a 401(k) plan. All benefits are subject to eligibility requirements. Certain positions are eligible for additional forms of compensation such as bonuses or commissions.

Miltenyi Biotec is an EO Employer – M/F/Veteran/Disability/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity.

Miltenyi Biotec, Inc. participates in E-Verify.

The Company will provide reasonable accommodations to candidates and employees, unless doing so would impose an undue hardship on the Company, in accordance with applicable law.

Are you ready to start revolutionizing biomedical research? When you join Miltenyi Biotec, you join a family that is passionate about making a real impact – one breakthrough at a time. For over 30 years, we have played a pivotal role in the design, development, manufacture, and integration of products for sample preparation, cell separation, cell analysis, imaging, and cell culture needs. These developments have led to cutting-edge cell and gene therapies – transformative methods that mobilize the body’s own cells and genetic blueprint to tackle diseases such as cancer and autoimmune conditions. Today, our more than 18,000 solutions play a vital role in paving the way for the medicine of tomorrow.

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