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West Pharma Quality Control Lead United States, Pennsylvania 949555699
29.06.2025
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Essential Duties and Responsibilities
- Lead the QC team and coordinate their daily activities to ensure optimum resource planning and a fully motivated, competent workforce. Take corrective action when necessary.
- Carry out QC tasks as required, ensuring all QC functions are performed accurately and effectively.
- Monitor and enforce compliance to a high level of work standards across the QC functions. Ensure that jobs are carried out efficiently. Paperwork is maintained accurately in accordance with Company policies, Regulatory standards and Training.
- Ability to inspire action by working closely with their team. Lead with confidence, may face difficult challenges, but solves them and help maintain Team morale.
- Ensure that technical equipment is regularly checked, appropriate paperwork is maintained and corrective action taken when necessary.
- Monitor the care of all department equipment and company property.
- Provide as a central point of communication for all departments in respect to product quality issues ensuring that all direct communication is cascaded to the Production Area Manager, Leads and the QC team.
- Actively engage in problem solving, solution finding and escalate process abnormalities.
- Ensure West’s processes are operating at the highest Quality. Support process improvement activities.
- Guide and coach inspectors on their team. Support QC team personnel while working in a team-oriented environment.
- Advise production staff on product information, usage and rejections as required.
- Provide second opinions and check standards for consistency against specifications.
- Maintain consistent standards of operation in readiness for customer visits to the site at all times.
- Ensure that QC areas are kept clean at all times and cleaning schedules are followed.
- Exhibits reliable and punctual attendance.
- Conforms with and abides with work procedures, instruction, and all safety rules.
- Maintain a high level of confidentiality when applicable.
Education
- High school diploma or equivalent required
Work Experience
- Prefer at least 3 years of related experience analyzing information, documentation skills, promoting process improvement and safety,management
Preferred Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
- Familiarity with a variety of Quality concepts, practices, AQL sampling plans for attribute and dimensional inspection.
- Experience with DR/NC initiation, bracketing requirements, investigation process and corrections to take.
- Understanding processes from Extrusion to Final Pack and Westar, manufacturing methods and procedures; support innovation, Quality Engineering and Operations research.
- Familiarity with Stopper knowledge, West drawings, configurations, formulations, coatings and use of the product.
- Support Intermixes and work with the Intermix Site Champions.
- Relies on extensive experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals.
- Performs a variety of tasks, able to communicate and pay attention to detail.
- Wide degree of creativity and latitude is expected.
- Functional understanding of cGMPs
- Basic computer skills (Excel and SAP experience preferred)
- Willing and able to work as a team to make general decisions within authorized responsibility
- Willing and able to work overtime within the department as necessary or advised
- Able to be aware of all relevant SOPs as per Company policy as they are related to the position covered by this Job Description
- Support and contribute in Lean Sigma programs and activities towards delivery of the set target
- Able to comply with the company’s safety policy at all times
- Able to comply with the company’s quality policy at all times.
Travel Requirements
None: No travel required
Physical Requirements
Medium-Exerting up to 50lb/22kg of force occasionally and/or up to 20lbs/9kg of force frequently, and/or up to 10lbs/4kgs of force constantly to move objects.
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