QC Team Lead

Lonza; Geleen; Presencial; Confidential; Tempo integral

Resumo da oferta

Lonza Geleen, The Netherlands, seeks a QC Team Lead to guide a Quality Control group supporting manufacturing through reliable testing and monitoring of the production environment. You will drive quality and patient safety, delivering timely results with a focus on continuous improvement.

You will lead training, coordinate QC testing including environmental monitoring, review results, and collaborate with Manufacturing and other QC teams to ensure safe, compliant operations and effective

Qualificações

• Experience in Quality Control within a regulated manufacturing or laboratory environment.
• Experience leading or coordinating a team, with ability to support development and manage performance.
• Understanding of GMP, laboratory documentation and quality processes, including deviation management.
• Ability to plan testing activities, manage workloads and balance competing priorities to meet manufacturing needs.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, including experience interpreting testing results and identifying trends.
• Clear communication and collaboration skills, with the confidence to resolve conflicts and work effectively across teams.
• Commitment to safe working practices, reliable execution, product quality and patient safety.

Responsabilidades

• Lead, coach and develop your team, ensuring appropriate training and qualification while promoting collaboration, accountability and professionalism.
• Plan and coordinate QC testing, including routine environmental monitoring and monitoring during critical manufacturing operations, to deliver accurate results within agreed timelines.
• Review and approve assay results, documentation and quality events within your area of responsibility, ensuring deviations from established procedures are identified and addressed.
• Work closely with Manufacturing, project leads and other QC teams to align priorities, establish realistic timelines for new methods and method transfers, and ensure effective handovers between teams and shifts.
• Resolve operational challenges, troubleshoot testing and performance issues, and address personnel matters and workplace conflicts.
• Lead or oversee projects and continuous improvement initiatives, and ensure relevant testing data is captured, analysed and reported to identify trends.
• Maintain a safe working environment by ensuring safety procedures are understood and followed, equipment and work areas are safe, and staffing needs are supported by workload assessments.

Conhecimentos

QC Leadership

GMP Knowledge

Analytical Thinking

Project Coordination

Communication

Safety Awareness

Problem Solving

Formação académica

Bachelor in Science

Ferramentas

LIMS

Laboratory Equipment

Descrição da oferta de emprego

QC Team Lead

Geleen, The Netherlands

Lead a Quality Control team that supports manufacturing through reliable testing and monitoring of the production environment and critical operations. In this role, you will develop your team and ensure timely, high-quality results, with product quality and patient safety at the heart of your work.

What you will get:

• A gross annual salary between EUR 54,000 and EUR 75,600, depending on your experience and qualifications.
• An agile career and dynamic working culture.
• An inclusive and ethical workplace.
• Compensation programs that recognize high performance.
• A variety of benefits dependent on role and location.

The full list of our global benefits can be found here: https://www.lonza.com/careers/benefits.

What you will do:

• Lead, coach and develop your team, ensuring appropriate training and qualification while promoting collaboration, accountability and professionalism.
• Plan and coordinate QC testing, including routine environmental monitoring and monitoring during critical manufacturing operations, to deliver accurate results within agreed timelines.
• Review and approve assay results, documentation and quality events within your area of responsibility, ensuring deviations from established procedures are identified and addressed.
• Work closely with Manufacturing, project leads and other QC teams to align priorities, establish realistic timelines for new methods and method transfers, and ensure effective handovers between teams and shifts.
• Resolve operational challenges, troubleshoot testing and performance issues, and address personnel matters and workplace conflicts.
• Lead or oversee projects and continuous improvement initiatives, and ensure relevant testing data is captured, analysed and reported to identify trends.
• Maintain a safe working environment by ensuring safety procedures are understood and followed, equipment and work areas are safe, and staffing needs are supported by workload assessments.

What we are looking for:

• Relevant experience in Quality Control within a regulated manufacturing or laboratory environment.
• Experience leading, coaching or coordinating a team, with the ability to support development and manage performance.
• Understanding of Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP), laboratory documentation and quality processes, including deviation management.
• The ability to plan testing activities, manage workloads and balance competing priorities to meet manufacturing needs.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, including experience interpreting testing results and identifying trends.
• Clear communication and collaboration skills, with the confidence to resolve conflicts and work effectively across teams.
• A commitment to safe working practices, reliable execution, product quality and patient safety.

About Lonza

At Lonza, our people are our greatest strength. With 30+ sites across five continents, our globally connected teams work together every day to manufacture the medicines of tomorrow. Our core values of Collaboration, Accountability, Excellence, Passion and Integrity reflect who we are and how we work together. Everyone's ideas, big or small, have the potential to improve millions of lives, and that’s the kind of work we want you to be part of.

Innovation thrives when people from all backgrounds bring their unique perspectives to the table. At Lonza, we value diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. If you're ready to help turn our customers’ breakthrough ideas into viable therapies, we look forward to welcoming you on board.