QC Team Lead – Drive Quality & Team Growth

Lonza; Geleen; On-site; Confidential; Full time

Job summary

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

Qualifications

• 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.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Skills

QC Leadership

GMP Knowledge

Analytical Thinking

Project Coordination

Communication

Safety Awareness

Problem Solving

Education

Bachelor in Science

Tools

LIMS

Laboratory Equipment

Job description

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