Job Description
**Summary**:
This role will author and oversee deviations, investigations, CAPAs, and related reports to ensure closure within the established timelines for the manufacturing department.
**About the Role**:
**Deviation and Investigation Management**:
- Open deviations and assess the criticality of the deviation within required timeframes
- Assess impact to any products involved in deviations, ensuring product impact is assessed in alignment with batch release activities
- Author investigations
- Owning investigations and developing corrective actions
- Use process knowledge and root cause investigation tools to identify root causes of product and process deviations.
- Ensures robustness (complete, accurate and defendable) of all critical and major investigations
- Author and execute any experiments or runs to support investigations
- Work cross-functionally to assess and analyze deviations and investigations to determine impact
- Work cross-functionally to ensure production continues in a compliant manner in the event of a deviation and document accordingly.
**Corrective and Preventive Actions**:
- Generation and documentation of effective corrective and preventative actions
- Ensures all CAPAs are implemented through GMP systems (e.g. MBR revision, training, etc.)
- Monitor and ensure effectiveness checks of CAPAs are conducted
- Communicate to the production team any training or awareness events to reinforce quality behaviors.
**MES Order Management**:
- Generation of manufacturing orders within the MES system, as required.
**Training**:
- Develop training (as immediate response to unexpected events, for technical document execution, and new products/processes) to the Cell Processing team, as required.
- Maintain compliance with training requirements.
**Key Performance Indicators**:
- Quality measures (e.g., deviations, oos rate)
- Schedule adherence to operational model
- Opening and closing investigations within time frame
- Production right first time
- Costs and budget (e.g. overtime)
**Ideal Background**:
**Education**: Bachelor's degree with 2-5 years of work experience in the pharmaceutical industry or equivalent. An advanced degree is desirable.
**Languages**: Fluent in speaking / writing in English
**Experience**:
- 2-5 years of related pharmaceutical experience preferably in a production, QA, and/ or QC related role preferred. Direct experience working in a GMP and aseptic or sterile environment is required. Cell & gene therapy experience highly desired.
- Investigator Certified required
- Knowledge of cGMP regulations and FDA guidance applicable to biologics and cell therapy manufacturing.
- Experience with 1QEM
Division
Operations
Business Unit
Innovative Medicines
Location
Mexico
Site
INSURGENTES
Company / Legal Entity
MX06 (FCRS = MX006) Novartis Farmacéutica S.A. de C.V.
Functional Area
Technical Operations
Job Type
Full time
Employment Type
Regular
Shift Work
No
**Accessibility and accommodation**:
Novartis is committed to building an outstanding, inclusive work environment and diverse teams' representative of the patients and communities we serve.
This role will author and oversee deviations, investigations, CAPAs, and related reports to ensure closure within the established timelines for the manufacturing department.
**About the Role**:
**Deviation and Investigation Management**:
- Open deviations and assess the criticality of the deviation within required timeframes
- Assess impact to any products involved in deviations, ensuring product impact is assessed in alignment with batch release activities
- Author investigations
- Owning investigations and developing corrective actions
- Use process knowledge and root cause investigation tools to identify root causes of product and process deviations.
- Ensures robustness (complete, accurate and defendable) of all critical and major investigations
- Author and execute any experiments or runs to support investigations
- Work cross-functionally to assess and analyze deviations and investigations to determine impact
- Work cross-functionally to ensure production continues in a compliant manner in the event of a deviation and document accordingly.
**Corrective and Preventive Actions**:
- Generation and documentation of effective corrective and preventative actions
- Ensures all CAPAs are implemented through GMP systems (e.g. MBR revision, training, etc.)
- Monitor and ensure effectiveness checks of CAPAs are conducted
- Communicate to the production team any training or awareness events to reinforce quality behaviors.
**MES Order Management**:
- Generation of manufacturing orders within the MES system, as required.
**Training**:
- Develop training (as immediate response to unexpected events, for technical document execution, and new products/processes) to the Cell Processing team, as required.
- Maintain compliance with training requirements.
**Key Performance Indicators**:
- Quality measures (e.g., deviations, oos rate)
- Schedule adherence to operational model
- Opening and closing investigations within time frame
- Production right first time
- Costs and budget (e.g. overtime)
**Ideal Background**:
**Education**: Bachelor's degree with 2-5 years of work experience in the pharmaceutical industry or equivalent. An advanced degree is desirable.
**Languages**: Fluent in speaking / writing in English
**Experience**:
- 2-5 years of related pharmaceutical experience preferably in a production, QA, and/ or QC related role preferred. Direct experience working in a GMP and aseptic or sterile environment is required. Cell & gene therapy experience highly desired.
- Investigator Certified required
- Knowledge of cGMP regulations and FDA guidance applicable to biologics and cell therapy manufacturing.
- Experience with 1QEM
Division
Operations
Business Unit
Innovative Medicines
Location
Mexico
Site
INSURGENTES
Company / Legal Entity
MX06 (FCRS = MX006) Novartis Farmacéutica S.A. de C.V.
Functional Area
Technical Operations
Job Type
Full time
Employment Type
Regular
Shift Work
No
**Accessibility and accommodation**:
Novartis is committed to building an outstanding, inclusive work environment and diverse teams' representative of the patients and communities we serve.
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