Deviation Management Specialist - I (Assistant)
West Point, PA
12 Months contract
Pay $41.78/hr
• Leads and/or works as a team member on deviation investigations aimed to prevent deviation recurrence, including determining the root cause, identifying corrective/preventative actions, identifying event scope, and conducting product impact assessment.
• Has ability to examine an issue from diverse perspectives (safety, compliance, automation, equipment, process, and people) in order to best understand and resolve the root cause.
• Supports and/or executes continuous improvement projects that increase compliance, simplify/ standardize, and/or gain efficiencies.
• Manages timelines to ensure key compliance and customer due dates are met; escalates any potential misses and develops remediation plans when possible.
• Assures consistent application of standardized work, engineering, and process tools.
• Provides technical support to manufacturing shop floor for problems and issues.
• Conducts and designs experimental protocols as needed using the Technical Operations lab facilities and/or production equipment at full scale.
• Authors and updates technical and manufacturing documents necessary for investigations, process design/definition, engineering studies, process demonstrations, change control and validation.
Quals--
Education Minimum Requirements:
• B.S. degree in Engineering or Sciences.
Required Experience and Skills:
• Minimum one (1) year post-bachelor’s degree experience in a GMP (good manufacturing practices) manufacturing and/or technical support of GMP manufacturing operations (or M.S. degree with <1 year experience).
• Demonstrated ability to drive results to hit assigned due dates.
• Strong communication, collaboration skills and ability to drive accountability.
• Strong problem-solving skillset.
Preferred Experience and Skills:
• Vaccine manufacturing
• Sterile processing
• Technical writing (e.g. investigations, technical protocols/reports)
• Investigative tools (e.g. 5-whys, fishbone)
• Experience authoring investigations for atypical events in a manufacturing environment