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Position Summary

The Sr. Engineer Compliance owns and leads all the Technical Services team on all QA aspect to ensure the compliance within regulations and BMS site rules. He/she supports the Sr. Manager Methods, Engineering, Reliability and C&Q in monitoring quality and performance metrics.

He/She is the single contact point for Technical Services.

Duties/Responsibilities

• Coordinate QA Events for Technical Services team.
• Manage deviations, CAPAs, Change, IA, Findings, PI, QRA, DIRA investigations within TS teams.
• Act as a liaison between TS, MS&T and QA to ensure alignment on quality issues. (e.g. dev meetings Following and other QA share events)
• Maintain logs and documentation for quality events and ensure timely resolution.
• Prepare as coordinator and assist for internal and external cGxP audits, ensuring compliance.
• Quality Risk Management and Mitigation: Identify potential risks related to quality events within the technical services activities and work with teams to implement mitigation strategies.
• Quality Continuous Improvement Initiatives: Support or lead initiatives aimed at improving TS processes with a focus on enhancing quality compliance and operational efficiency.
• Qualification Knowledge for all QA events in qualification
• Training compliance: Ensure staff are trained on QA procedures and regulatory requirements.
• Ensure equipment and systems are qualified, validated and maintained in compliance with local policies, guidelines, and procedures during their lifecycle.
• Can review validation documents, including requirement specifications, qualification/validation plans, protocols, reports, traceability matrix and summary reports.
• Contributes to the development and maintenance of the local site procedures.
• Lead/Facilitate risk assessments and risk management teams.
• Review/assess change controls and maintenance interventions, evaluating the impact upon qualified systems & validated processes, and documents required actions.
• Support the team in proactively monitoring quality, safety and performance / reporting metrics (OEE, Tier Meeting).
• Autonomous; completes work independently, seeking guidance on complex tasks and on non-routine decisions.

Reporting Relationship

Sr. Manager Methods, Engineering, Reliability and C&Q

Qualifications

• BS/MS in Relevant science/Engineering/Technical discipline or equivalent in work experience

Experience – Responsibility and minimum number of years

• 5 years’ QA experience in pharmaceutical industry
• 5 years’ Manufacturing or technical experience on shopfloor

Competencies – Knowledge, Skills Abilities:

• Strong Knowlegde with current international regulatory regulations, cGxP requirements and best practices, including 21 CFR part 11, 210 and 211, Annex 11, EU-GMP guidelines and GAMP.
• Good ALCOA & Data Integrity knowledge
• Good knowledge on IT systems (Software and Hardware)
• Knowledge of pharmaceutical facilities (including HVAC and utilities), manufacturing and laboratory equipment/systems and computerized system validation (CSV)
• Knowledge of pharmaceutical qualification, calibration and maintenance activities  
• Familiar with QA processes and compliance aspects.
• Communicates pro-actively and collaboratively.
• Proactively identifies problems and recommends solutions Team player: ability to interact effectively with team and customers.
• Good English level.
• Ability to communicate in French is preferred.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Strong analytical, problem solving, influential and deductive skills.
• Capability to work with short deadlines and simultaneous activities.

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On-site Protocol

BMS has a diverse occupancy structure that determines where an employee is required to conduct their work. This structure includes site-essential, site-by-design, field-based and remote-by-design jobs. The occupancy type that you are assigned is determined by the nature and responsibilities of your role:

Site-essential roles require 100% of shifts onsite at your assigned facility. Site-by-design roles may be eligible for a hybrid work model with at least 50% onsite at your assigned facility. For these roles, onsite presence is considered an essential job function and is critical to collaboration, innovation, productivity, and a positive Company culture. For field-based and remote-by-design roles the ability to physically travel to visit customers, patients or business partners and to attend meetings on behalf of BMS as directed is an essential job function.

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