Qualified Person (QP) - Pharmaceutical Manufacturing

FR03 Air Products S.A.S (FR); Lille; On-site; EUR 95,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Air Products is seeking a Qualified Person (QP) for our Templemars site in France. You will ensure GMP compliance, certify and release medicinal gas batches, and maintain regulatory readiness while collaborating with cross-functional teams. Fluency in English and a Pharmacy Master’s degree are required, with at least two years of related experience.

Qualifications

• Master's degree in Pharmacy and eligibility to act as a QP in France.
• Minimum 2 years of pharmaceutical industry experience within Quality, Manufacturing, Quality Control, or Compliance.
• Strong knowledge of EU GMP requirements and pharmaceutical quality systems.
• Experience with batch certification and release activities.
• Familiarity with regulatory inspections and health authority interactions.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Professional proficiency in English.
• Valid driver's license.

Responsibilities

• Acting as the site's Qualified Person (QP) and ensuring continued compliance with pharmaceutical regulations and GMP requirements.
• Certifying and releasing batches of medicinal gases for commercial distribution.
• Ensuring manufacturing, testing, and quality control activities meet approved specifications and regulatory requirements.
• Maintaining and continuously improving the Pharmaceutical Quality Management System.
• Leading and supporting internal and external audits to ensure ongoing compliance.
• Preparing for, coordinating, and supporting regulatory inspections.
• Working closely with cross-functional teams to drive quality and compliance across the site.
• Escalating significant quality or regulatory issues to the Pharmacien Responsable when required.
• Supporting compliance with quality requirements related to CE-marked medical devices when applicable.

Skills

Excellent communication

Stakeholder management

English proficiency

Education

Master's degree in Pharmacy

Eligibility to act as QP in France

Job description

At Air Products, we reimagine what’s possible. By tapping into the motivation of our people and our collective experience, we create the ideas and innovations that drive us forward. When we come together – where every voice is heard and everyone knows they belong and matter – we create solutions that launch people into space, support lifesaving care in hospitals, and enable the construction of groundbreaking, world scale production facilities.

Reimagine What’s Possible As a Qualified Person (QP), you will play a critical role in ensuring the quality, safety, and compliance of medicinal gases manufactured at our Templemars site in France. This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced pharmaceutical professional who is passionate about GMP compliance, quality excellence, and patient safety, and who enjoys working in an international environment.

What you will be doing

As the Qualified Person for our Templemars manufacturing facility, you will be responsible for ensuring that pharmaceutical operations are performed in compliance with GMP requirements, Marketing Authorisations, Manufacturing Authorisations, and applicable French and EU pharmaceutical regulations.

Your key responsibilities will include:

• Acting as the site's Qualified Person (QP) and ensuring continued compliance with pharmaceutical regulations and GMP requirements.
• Certifying and releasing batches of medicinal gases for commercial distribution.
• Ensuring manufacturing, testing, and quality control activities meet approved specifications and regulatory requirements.
• Maintaining and continuously improving the Pharmaceutical Quality Management System.
• Leading and supporting internal and external audits to ensure ongoing compliance.
• Preparing for, coordinating, and supporting regulatory inspections.
• Working closely with cross-functional teams to drive quality and compliance across the site.
• Escalating significant quality or regulatory issues to the Pharmacien Responsable when required.
• Supporting compliance with quality requirements related to CE-marked medical devices when applicable.

What you will Bring

• Masters Degree in Pharmacy and eligibility to act as a Qualified Person (QP) in France.
• Minimum 2 years of pharmaceutical industry experience within Quality, Manufacturing, Quality Control, or Compliance.
• Strong knowledge of EU GMP requirements and pharmaceutical quality systems.
• Experience with batch certification and release activities.
• Familiarity with regulatory inspections and health authority interactions.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Professional proficiency in English.
• Valid driver's license.

Employee and Applicant Rights Behind every success and innovation that has made a difference in the world, you will find a team of passionate people who helped make it possible. At Air Products, our talented people help each other and our customers thrive. To our colleagues, we are valued and respected teammates. To our customers, we are partners in creating value. To our communities, we are caring, involved neighbors and committed stewards of the environment.

Founded in 1940, Air Products is a world-leading industrial gases company and has a proud history of innovation, operational excellence, with an unwavering commitment to safety and environmental stewardship. Working together, we are taking our passion and diverse backgrounds forward to reimagine what’s possible and generate a cleaner future for our customers, our communities, and the world.

Air Products is a world-leading industrial gases company with more than 85 years of experience serving energy, environmental, and emerging markets while generating a cleaner future. Our people are at the heart of everything we do. We are committed to creating a workplace where safety comes first, diverse perspectives are valued, innovation thrives, and employees have opportunities to learn, grow, and make a meaningful impact.