Quality Control Technician

Entertimeonline; Tustin (CA); On-site; USD 24,796 - 33,062; Full time

Job summary

Noble Harbor Sciences is seeking a QC Technician in California to perform in-process and finished-goods quality checks, including visual inspection of lyophilized vials, cake assessment, fill-weight, and sampling, with data recorded in real time. This entry-level role reports to the QA Manager and works on the floor with Production staff.

It emphasizes ALCOA+ data integrity and separation of inspection from release authority, ensuring accurate records and flagging out-of-spec results for QA

Qualifications

• High school diploma or GED required.
• 0–2 years in QC, laboratory, manufacturing, or other detail-driven environment.
• Peptide, pharmaceutical, nutraceutical, or compounding exposure a plus.
• Strong attention to detail and reliable visual/color acuity for cake and vial inspection.
• Comfortable reading and executing controlled documents (SOPs, Work Instructions, inspection criteria) exactly as written.
• Legible, disciplined documentation habits and basic computer/data-entry skills.
• Able to work in a controlled manufacturing environment, including gowning and standing for extended periods.

Responsibilities

• Inspect finished vials against the NHS visual QA reference and cake-appearance categories.
• Identify and flag defects and segregate suspect vials from good stock.
• Distinguish expected product characteristics from true defects and escalate findings to QA.
• Perform in-process checks and record results against specifications.
• Support residual-moisture, pressure, and cycle-completion verification checks.
• Support incoming material inspection and quarantine of lots; verify labeling and paperwork.
• Record environmental readings and flag excursions; log routine cleaning and line-clearance checks.
• Pull representative samples and maintain chain-of-custody.
• Document data per ALCOA+; QA retains disposition authority.

Skills

Attention to detail

Visual/color acuity

Documentation skills

Reading SOPs

Data entry

Controlled environment

Education

High school diploma or GED

Associate degree in science (preferred)

Job description

• Job Category Production Department
• Employee Type Full-Time Non-Exempt
• Required Degree High school
• Manage Others No

Quality Control — Visual Inspection & In-Process Testing|Full-Time, Non-Exempt (Hourly)|Entry Level

Starting Rate: $21.00 / hour

RUO NOTICE: Noble Harbor Sciences manufactures Research Use Only (RUO) peptide products. This role has no involvement with clinical, veterinary, or human-use applications. The QC Technician records inspection and test results but holds no batch release or disposition authority — those remain with the QA Manager under the NHS Quality Management System.

Position Summary

The QC Technician performs in-process and finished-goods quality checks that keep every NHS lot within specification — visual inspection of lyophilized vials against the NHS cake-appearance reference, fill-weight and reconstitution checks, representative sampling, incoming-material inspection support, and environmental monitoring. Every result is recorded accurately and contemporaneously in line with ALCOA+ data-integrity principles.

This is an entry-level, floor-facing quality role reporting to the QA Manager. It is a checking-and-recording role, intentionally separate from quality-system decision authority: the QC Technician gathers and documents data, flags anything out of specification, and hands it to QA — QA dispositions and releases.

Key Responsibilities

Visual Inspection & Cake Assessment

• Inspect finished vials against the NHS visual QA reference (NHS-REF-QA-001) and its cake-appearance categories, anchored to standard lyophilized-cake nomenclature.
• Identify and flag defects — cake collapse, meltback, shrunken or detached cake, discoloration, particulate, and fill-level anomalies — and physically segregate suspect vials from good stock.
• Distinguish expected product characteristics from true defects (for example, the blue/teal cake of a copper-peptide complex is expected, not contamination) and escalate genuine findings to QA.

In-Process & Finished-Goods Testing

• Perform in-process checks — fill weight, blend appearance, and reconstitution/appearance testing — and record each result against the specification on the batch record.
• Support residual-moisture, pressure, and cycle-completion verification checks as directed, using the assigned instruments and logs.

Incoming Material Inspection

• Support the QC inspection queue for incoming API, excipient, and packaging lots — verify labeling, quantity, lot number, and condition against the purchase order and paperwork.
• Keep incoming lots in quarantine status and route inspection results to QA; the QC Technician does not grant released status to any material.
• Record cleanroom and storage environmental readings (temperature, humidity, and particulate where applicable) on schedule and flag any excursion immediately.
• Verify and log routine cleaning and line-clearance checks before and after production runs.

Sampling & Retention

• Pull representative samples per the sampling plan, accounting for the standard fill-overage allowance for defects and testing, and maintain sample chain-of-custody.
• Log, label, and store retention samples so lots remain fully traceable.

Documentation & Data Integrity

• Complete all QC entries accurately and contemporaneously — no backfilling, no estimated values — consistent with ALCOA+ principles.
• Identify out-of-specification results and initiate or support deviation documentation; the QA Manager retains sole authority for disposition and release.

Qualifications

• High school diploma or GED required; coursework or an associate degree in a science or laboratory field preferred.
• 0–2 years in a QC, laboratory, manufacturing, or other detail-driven environment; peptide, pharmaceutical, nutraceutical, or compounding exposure a plus.
• Strong attention to detail and reliable visual/color acuity for cake and vial inspection.
• Comfortable reading and executing controlled documents (SOPs, Work Instructions, inspection criteria) exactly as written — this is not a role for improvising.
• Legible, disciplined documentation habits and basic computer/data-entry skills.
• Able to work in a controlled manufacturing environment, including gowning and standing for extended periods.

What This Role Is Not

This is not a QA role. The QC Technician does not hold batch release, deviation-disposition, or document-approval authority — those remain with the QA Manager and the designated document approver. The QC Technician inspects, tests, samples, and records; QA dispositions and releases.

Reports To

QA Manager, with daily working coordination alongside the Production Manager and Manufacturing Technicians on the floor.