Quality Assurance Officer (junior/ entry level)

Location: Netherlands

SIRE® is the market leader in Life Sciences recruitment. We believe the recruitment market needs to gear up in technology and continuous innovation. We like technology, in a Life Sciences market driven on science, we couldn’t stay behind; we drive Recruitment Science. Investing a majority of our turnover in technology enables us to use unique Resource Technologies. By using highly advanced algorithms, we enable our team of Resource & Data Strategists© to maintain the most advanced, detailed and complete Life Sciences network in Europe. This big data enables us to work Reverse Recruitment©: we first analyze the market in-depth before we go out to the market. Because we analyze the whole market, we can compare facts and data. This enables us to do Facts & Big Data Recruitment©, making sure we, or better yet, you find the right career!Our client is a professional Pharmaceutical organisation, based in Noord-Brabant Netherlands.

The Company

Amgen is one of the biggest biotech companies worldwide with their European Distribution and secondary packaging Headquarters located in Breda. Approximately 800 people work in this site.

SIRE Life Sciences has been awarded with the Supplier Excellence Awards by KellyOCG 2017 (Managing Service Provider for Amgen).
The KellyOCG Supplier Excellence Awards honor national and global suppliers whose outstanding service, superior results, and strategic partnerships have made a significant impact on the KellyOCG business.

Role Description

The purpose of the QA Officer role is to provide Quality Assurance guidance and support in the production area. This includes the compliance of GMP regulations, batch review (QP support) and contribute to the communications between departments (production, warehouse, maintenance, engineering, QA and the QP).

Additionally, problem solving abilities in critical in this role.

Responsibilities

- Act as first point of contact for quality production inquires in packaging and labelling
- Perform product, batches and GMP check-ups
- Train Production workers to be compliant with SOPs and GMP regulations
- Review and approve class I non-conformances
- Initiate QA investigations when needed
- Preparation of periodic reports/ metrics
- Supervision of KPIs departmental boards

Requirements

- MBO/ MLO or HLO/ HBO background within life sciences
- (preferably) a first experience within QA, QC or manufacturing
- Basic knowledge of GMP
- Fluent in English

Other information

Important information
This role is structured in 3 shifts (Monday to Friday) with a weekly alternation of early and late shift and a week night shift every 8 weeks.
- Early: 06:30 - 15:00 (104% payment)
- Late: 14:30 - 23:00 (128%)
- Night: 22:30 - 07:00 (161%)
In the rare case of working on a Saturday or Sunday the extra compensation will be multiplied by 175% and 200%.

The average salary per year in this position will be:
- Minimum: 40.900 € gross per year
- Average: 50.000 € gross
- Maximum: 58.000 € gross
The salary per month will vary depending on the shifts.

Additionally, all public transport is fully covered and there is a small compensation of around 6 euros net a day when commuting by car.
Holiday days: 24+6 which are reimbursable.


Additional information
- Start date: ASAP
- Type of contract: temporary for 1 year automatically renewed (based on performance)
- Location: Breda, Noord Brabant
- FTE's: full time
- Industry: Pharmaceutical, packaging


The ideal candidate is a motivated professional with good analytical skills and a first experience in a laboratory, manufacturing, QA or GMP environment who has the ambition to develop in a Quality Assurance role in the pharmaceutical industry.
All relevant training to complete this job will be provided.

Are you interested and do want to apply for this role, please fill out your application via the apply button below and contact Patricia Oses Equiza.