(CW) QA Associate

Location:  Novato, California Category: Quality Employment Category: Fulltime-Temporary

Description

Who We Are

BioMarin is a global biotechnology company that relentlessly pursues bold science to translate genetic discoveries into new medicines that advance the future of human health.

Since our founding in 1997, we have applied our scientific expertise in understanding the underlying causes of genetic conditions to create transformative medicines, using a number of treatment modalities.

Using our unparalleled expertise in genetics and molecular biology, we develop medicines for patients with significant unmet medical need. We enlist the best of the best – people with the right technical expertise and a relentless drive to solve real problems – and create an environment that empowers our teams to pursue bold, innovative science. With this distinctive approach to drug discovery, we’ve produced a diverse pipeline of commercial, clinical and preclinical candidates that have well-understood biology and provide an opportunity to be first-to-market or offer a substantial benefit over existing therapeutic options.

About Technical Operations

BioMarin’s Technical Operations group is responsible for creating our drugs for use in clinical trials and for scaling production of those drugs for the commercial market. These engineers, technicians, scientists and support staff build and maintain BioMarin’s cutting-edge manufacturing processes and sites, provide quality assurance and quality control to ensure we meet regulatory standards, and procure the needed goods and services to support manufacturing and coordinating the worldwide movement of our drugs to patients.

This is a Contract role-**Onsite 5 days per week in Novato, CA. Possibility of working offsite when fully trained***

QA Associate

Description:
This position within the QA department provides Quality oversight, support and knowledge to activities relating to Quality to meet BioMarin business priorities. The QA Associate will have proven capability in promoting Quality across cross-functional teams, to deliver high quality product, ensuring continuous process improvement. The QA Associate will model the BioMarin Leadership behaviors and understand the principles to drive a culture of continuous improvement building a High-Performance Organization.

General QA Associate Responsibilities:

●Exercise judgment to determine appropriate action, ensuring proper escalation when non-conformances are identified as per applicable procedures for compliance, escalation and corrections.

●Provide Quality input to Deviations ensuring scope of record is clear and investigations are robust and timely. Review and approval of Deviations and associated CAPAs for closure ensuring compliance with appropriate documentation, whilst ensuring that CAPA actions address root cause and implementation plan dates are achievable.

●Participates within inter-departmental and cross-functional teams, with direct interface with Manufacturing, Supply, Distribution, Maintenance, Metrology, and Quality Control employees to immediately address issues and questions in real time to help ensure timeline are achieved to meet customer requirements. Minimizing impact to Lot Release operations on site.

●Prioritizes tasks to ensure the critical tasks are completed on time and meet requirements.

Note: This description is not intended to be all-inclusive, or a limitation of the duties of the position. It is intended to describe the general nature of the job that may include other duties as assumed or assigned.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled

An Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.