QA Validation Analyst/Engineer II

Weil Group, Inc; Barceloneta (PR); On-site; USD 75,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Weil Group, Inc. is seeking a QA Validation Analyst/Engineer to plan, approve, and potentially execute validation activities. Under the Validation Section Manager, the role supports the Validation quality program at the plant with minimal supervision.

The position may involve reviewing commissioning and validation docs, leading investigations, and implementing preventive and corrective actions while supporting plant quality systems and regulatory audits.

Qualifications

• Experience with validation activities and quality systems.

Responsibilities

• Participate in the implementation and maintenance of the Quality System to meet regulatory requirements.
• Ensure practices and procedures comply with company policies and applicable regulations for Quality areas.
• Execute tasks to implement the Validation Master Plan and maintain validated state of equipment, utilities, facilities, and processes.
• Ensure investigations of validation failures are thorough, documented, and linked to CAPA as required.
• Participate with plant/external resources on new installations to ensure documentation complies with cGMP and supports validation.
• May supervise contract validation resources to timely complete activities in the area.

Job description

The QA Validation Analyst/Engineer is responsible for planning and overall approval of validation tasks. Responsibilities may also include executing validation activities. Under the direction of the Validation Section Manager, this individual will participate in the implementation of the Validation quality program at the plant under minimal supervision. Level of responsibility and performance is commensurate with grade level.
The Validation Engineer responsibilities may include: the review of commissioning and validation documentation completed by others, leading, authoring or reviewing investigations and implementation of preventive and corrective action, review and authoring of plant standard operating procedures, review and approval of critical planned maintenance routines, set-up of laboratory samples for qualification, participation in the establishment of plant quality systems, supporting regulatory and third-party audits.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for participating in implementation and maintenance of the effectiveness of the Quality System to meet all applicable regulatory requirements.
• Ensures that all practices and procedures comply with company policies and applicable regulations for the Quality areas under his/her responsibility.
• Executes tasks as required to implement the Validation Master Plan and maintain in a validated state the equipment, utilities, facilities, automated process controllers, information systems, cleaning processes, manufacturing processes, laboratory instruments and analytical methods to demonstrate that product will perform consistently as intended.
• Ensures investigations of validation failures are completed thoroughly and documented accurately and are included in the plant CAPA system where required by policy.
• Participates with plant and external engineering resources on new installations/systems to ensure that factory/site/commissioning documentation is in accordance with cGMP and supports validation.
• May supervise contract validation resources in the timely completion of activities in his/her area of responsibility.

*Weil Group is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer.*