Quality Assurance Specialist | Mendrisio

  • Location
    Mendrisio, Ticino
  • Category
    Engineering & Manufacturing
  • Contract Type
    Temporary
  • Educational Requirements
    Higher Professional Education / Certificate
  • Industry
    Pharma / Life Sciences / Chemistry / Science
  • External Reference
    241-GIBO-112039-167-IT

We are looking for:

Quality Assurance Specialist

Your challenges

The resource will be integrated in the Quality Assurance Team and will contribute to establish and maintain the Company's Quality System and ensure the ongoing reliability of the manufacturing process.

Your skills

Essential tasks and responsibilities
  • Editing and issuance of qualification documents as well as final reports and GMP related documents (risk analysis, technical reports, etc.)
  • Execution of qualification of equipment, utilities and machines, process validation and cleaning validation processes
  • Analysis and evaluation of KPI and data monitoring to ensure a continuous i improvement of the quality system
  • Deviation and Change Control management
  • Quality investigations and definition of corrective and preventive actions
  • Definition of Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) and GMP-related documentation along with other relevant units/ department Managers
  • Contribution to the implementation of innovative industrial Projects.
  • Involvement in self-inspections and in third parties inspections
  • Drawing of validation protocols, and final validation and qualification reports
  • Definition of staff training plans and coordination of training and education activities.
  • Cooperation with production and maintenance to define Gantt of shutdown activities and in general Gantt for qualification activities in order to have close alignment.

More specifically, the position includes the following tasks:
  • Plan and coordinate validation activities in collaboration with the concerned department manager.
  • Develop and maintain relationships with external validation service suppliers and planning their interventions.
  • Based on the documentation, deliver Training to employees who are involved in validation activities.
  • Participate to issue the Validation Master Plan and the Validation Project Plans related to the industrial projects.
  • Accomplish planned validation tasks, with the support of external or internal staff.
  • Assure that the installation of new machines and utilities is performed according to relevant documentation (QD, IQ, QO, etc.).

Required skills and core competences
  • Bachelor/Master degree in technical scientific subjects (Chemistry, Pharmacy, Engineering or equivalent)
  • 5 years' experience in the pharmaceutical field, production, or quality assurance
  • Expertise in injectables anesthetics (Production) and terminally sterilized products will be considered an asset.
  • Good knowledge of the pharmaceutical industry and expertise in pharmaceutical manufacturing and GMP procedures will be considered an asset
  • Fluent in spoken and written Italian and English, knowledge of French will be considered an asset.
  • Excellent communication skills, proactivity, autonomy, precision, teamwork aptitude.
  • Management and organizational skills, flexibility, learning agility and strategic thinking.
  • Commitment to continuous improvement.


Your horizons

long - term temporary work

Your contact person
If your qualifications and experience match the profile sought, please apply directly online by clicking on 'Apply' or send your application to the following e-mail address: gino.boccolato@adecco.ch
For further information, please contact us by telephone on +41 58 2332910