QA Inspector, 2nd Shift

Renaissance Lakewood - Lakewood Township, NJ

Full-time

Lakewood Township, NJ

Chemical Manufacturing

About the position

The Quality Assurance Inspector plays a crucial role in ensuring that products meet company policies, standard operating procedures (SOPs), and Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) requirements. This position involves hands-on inspection of packaging, labeling, and finished products on the production floor, ensuring compliance with quality standards. The QA Inspector is expected to be flexible and adaptable, taking on new challenges as part of a rapidly growing company.

Responsibilities

• Perform Quality Assurance tasks including production line clearances, sampling, inspections, and quality attributes testing.
• Guide the production team on quality control measures to improve product excellence.
• Set up and perform destructive and nondestructive tests on materials, parts, or products to measure performance or material characteristics.
• Help develop, modify, apply, and maintain quality standards and evaluation methods for products and processes.
• Qualify on visual inspection of in-process materials.
• Perform routine line clearances and in-process inspections in manufacturing.
• Provide oversight of activities on the filling and packaging areas, working with operations personnel to achieve and maintain compliance.
• Monitor manufacturing areas during operations to ensure that batch documentation requirements and SOPs are being followed.
• Review all documentation related to the manufacturing processes for accuracy and compliance, both online and upon completion of the activity.
• Ability to gown to Grade A standards and perform quality inspection inside cleanroom areas.
• Assist with investigations related to non-conformances within manufacturing or during storage.
• Collect representative samples for testing and retention, and ensure all relevant paperwork is complete.
• Submit samples/resamples to laboratory in a timely fashion to meet production needs.
• Inspect and approve packaging components, manufacturing/packaging rooms, lines, and equipment prior to use.
• Sample in-process items and finished products.
• Perform required inspections and testing of in-process items and finished products.
• Apply disposition stickers to components, in-process materials, and finished products.
• Responsible for control of label and inserts during manufacturing activities as well as issuing reports and verifying materials against associated staging sheet.
• Responsible for reconciling unused labels and inserts and their destruction.
• Process and distribute samples to other teams (i.e.: Quality Control Laboratory) for evaluation and testing.
• Ensure all documented data, whether on paper or in an electronic system, follow the principles of ALCOA: Attributable, Legible, Contemporaneous, Original, and Accurate.
• Maintain a clean and safe environment in compliance with State and Federal regulatory guidelines.
• Ability to work with computer-based systems and equipment.
• Perform other duties and responsibilities as assigned.

Requirements

• Associates Degree required.
• Bachelor's Degree preferred.
• Science or engineering degrees preferred.
• Previous pharmaceutical experience a plus.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience in GMP.