My client is a large pharmaceutical company who seeks to employ a QA Pharmacist who will be responsible for documentation systems.

Minimum Requirements:
B Pharm degree
Minimum 3 years’ experience in Quality Assurance or Production
Strong knowledge of regulatory requirements pertaining to GMP
Good knowledge of effective quality documentation systems

Specification
• Customer Service
Ensure that all customer product complaints are logged, investigated and satisfactorily resolved and cause and corrective actions are communicated. Oversee the approval and release of client raw materials, packaging materials, intermediates and finished products. Ensure that annual product reviews are completed.
• Expense management
Communication of short dated raw materials to purchasing department, communication of rejections of materials to all relevant departments
• QA functions
Approval, embargo or rejection of starting materials, packaging materials, intermediate bulk and finished products, review and approval of batch records, oversee the control, storage and retrieval of manufacturing and packing records, logging of all NCR’s.
Updating of SOP’s.
Authorise deviations in absence of QA Manager, ensure effective corrective action is implemented and follow up on all deviations on a monthly basis.
Schedule and participate in monthly internal audits
• Compliance
Carry out pre-approval audits of third party manufacturers, contractors, suppliers and laboratories. Ensures compliance to cGMP requirements and performs daily inspections in the factory. Ensuring compliance to the companies’ Health, Safety and Environmental policies.
• Personnel
• Conduct in-house QA training related to GMP, Quality Awareness and Quality Systems. Strengthen relationships between QA and other departments through active participation in relevant meetings and forums.