Quality Assurance Associate

Quality Assurance Associate (8555)

**Career Opportunities: Quality Assurance Associate (8555)**

Requisition ID **8555** - Posted - **Canada** - **Quality** - **CA - Steinbach** - City (1)

Bausch Health Canada is the international head office of Bausch Health Companies, one of the fastest growing international pharmaceutical companies dedicated to bringing quality health and wellness products to all Canadians.

Our team manufactures and markets a wide variety of pharmaceutical and health products that are distributed in pharmacies, healthcare practices and hospitals across the country.

At Bausch Health, we invest in our employees and we believe in the importance of cultivating performance and outdoing ourselves in finding new and better solutions with the aim of responding innovatively and effectively to current needs.

**ROLE TITLE**:QUALITY ASSURANCE ASSOCIATE**

**DEPARTMENT**:QUALITY**

**REPORTS TO**:SUPERVISOR, QUALITY ASSURANCE REVIEW**

**SHIFT**:DAY 08:00-16:30**

Reporting to the Supervisor, Quality Assurance Review for the Steinbach site this position is responsible for the quality oversight including QA review and evaluation of various types of GMP documentation to determine disposition of in-process materials, bulk materials, and packaged product for Pharmaceutical and Natural Health Products

**Responsibilities**:

- QA lead for atypical events and investigations associated with manufacturing operations and analytical testing activities.
- Provides support and coaching with production and laboratory personnel regularly, including production floor presence, to ensure adequate communication and feedback for quality-related services to internal customers.
- Review executed GMP batch documentation to determine whether process and laboratory results meet the predetermined acceptance criteria for release meet business objectives.
- Maintain the Pharmaceutical CMO files/programs to ensure annual and Quality Agreement requirements are met.
- Write and revise Standard Operating Procedures to ensure compliance.
- Maintenance of SAP QM Module for release of inventory, and nonconformance reports.
- Review and approval of artwork for pharmaceutical products including Foreign Drug Listing activities.
- Prepare Quality Assessments and Technical reports, as required.
- Support Regulatory inspections and audits.
- Support lean initiates and 5S principles.
- Provide CI for the systems
- Participate in Site Project or Process Improvement initiatives.
- Ensure compliance to current Good Manufacturing Practices, Regulatory Requirements, and Occupational Health & Safety.

**Education and Experience**:

- Bachelor's degree in Science.
- Minimum of three years’ experience in quality assurance or a regulated environment.
- Strong computer and analytical skills including data collection, management and analysis.
- Working knowledge of the associated regulations that govern the pharmaceutical and natural health products industries.
- Proficient with Microsoft Office Suite and SAP preferred.

**Required competencies/Abilities**:

- A strong solution focus and high attention to details to identify problems and drive for results.
- Excellent time management skills with a proven ability to meet deadlines and commitments.
- Sense of urgency and flexibility.
- Good verbal and written communication skills.

**Why Bausch Health?**

Bausch Health is a dynamic, growing company with a dedicated team committed to excellence and to helping Canadians by providing them with important, high-quality healthcare solutions. It is a progressive, exciting place to work where opportunities abound for current and new employees to help make a difference for Canadians.

We strongly believe the success of Bausch Health coincides with the achievement of personal and professional goals. We are a progressive, exciting place to work - where opportunities abound for new and current employees.

Our team members work in a dynamic environment where professional and personal growth is encouraged. You have the satisfaction of knowing that you are working with dedicated individuals who share a common vision of innovation and an unrelenting focus on improving people’s lives with our health care products.

By cultivating a winning attitude, we empower employees to seize opportunities that support the company’s mission to improve people’s lives.
- What we have to offer our employees in our state-of-the-art Steinbach manufacturing site:_
- Annual Bonus Plan
- Insurance coverage (Medical - Dental - Vision - Short & Long-Term Disability - Life - AD&D)
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)
- Registered Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP)
- Gym on site
- Tuition Reimbursement
- INSPIRE: Employee Recognition Program
- Service Awards
- Employee Referral Program
- Top Up Maternity Leave
- Full-service Cafeteria - Free coffee & tea
- Free parking
- The masculine is used in this publication without prejudice for the sake of conc