Senior Quality Auditor
- Recruiter
- Covance
- Location
- Harrogate
- Salary
- Competitive Salary
- Posted
- 13 Jan 2017
- Closes
- 10 Feb 2017
- Sectors
- Scientific & Pharmaceutical
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
Senior Quality Auditor, Harrogate
Covance, a leading global drug development services company, is looking for a Senior Quality Auditor to join the team based in Harrogate, on a full time, permanent basis.
Covance is a leading global drug development services company and we provide support to the Pharmaceutical and Biotechnology industries. Our people make a difference by helping to deliver life-saving and life-enhancing medicines to people around the world. Our commitment to this mission has resulted in Covance’s impressive history of company stability and growth. We’ve achieved these results by fostering a work environment that encourages, develops and leverages our team’s capabilities.
As our Senior Quality Auditor you will be working with an experienced team of approximately 28 people and your day will be very varied. We expect you to have close involvement with all phases of the study process, and hence with staff at all levels across site. There are also progression opportunities for the right person either in a supervisory or technical role longer term.
Responsibilities of our Senior Quality Auditor include:
- Perform protocol, data, report and in-lab/in–life inspections for multiple safety assessment and chemistry business lines to verify conformance to applicable SOP and regulatory requirements.
- Evaluate responses to inspection reports and perform follow up with respondents, management and other, if needed, to ensure resolution.
- Perform SOP reviews and initiate or update SOPs as appropriate
- Interrogate trends in data/audit findings and develop new ideas for quality improvements
- Conduct meetings with internal and external clients to promote QA processes
- Devise, monitor and maintain QA inspection programmes
- Provide training and act as mentor/role model for junior members of QA.
To become our Senior Quality Auditor you must have the following skills and experience:
Essential
- Typically educated to a BSc or equivalent in a relevant scientific subject or direct relevant experience will also be considered
- Solid experience as a QA auditor in a GLP/GCP regulated environment
- Experience of stakeholder management
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Self-motivated and proactive in approach
Desirable
- Experience of working in a Clinical Research Organisation
- Working knowledge of PRISTIMA or other related data capture system
In return for your hard work as our Senior Quality Auditor, you will receive a competitive salary plus the opportunity to work within an experienced and highly skilled team, health cover and a contributory pension.
Covance’s ongoing success offers team members unsurpassed growth and career development opportunities.
At Covance, we help make the miracles of medicine a reality. We offer opportunities to work on diverse, challenging projects with bright, interesting colleagues while building a flexible and rewarding career. This is your chance to become part of a team that helps to bring miracle of medicine to market sooner.
There is no better time to join us!
So don’t delay, click ‘Apply’ today to become our Senior Quality Auditor.
Covance also offers the opportunity for its employees to further develop their educational qualifications through continued learning/day release programs.