Senior Quality Assurance Consultant

Job Description

Job Description

Job Title: Quality Assurance Consultant

Job Description

The Quality Assurance Consultant provides on-site quality oversight and support for pharmaceutical manufacturing operations focused on final drug product fill-finish, labeling, packaging, and batch release activities. This role serves as a key quality representative, partnering closely with manufacturing, quality systems, and site leadership to ensure timely batch disposition, adherence to GMP requirements, and continuous improvement of quality processes. The consultant identifies and addresses issues that may delay product release and drives quality decisions through to completion while influencing cross-functional teams through strong peer-to-peer communication.

Responsibilities

• Provide quality oversight for final drug product fill-finish manufacturing operations, ensuring compliance with GMP and internal quality standards.
• Support the review and disposition of manufacturing batches through batch release activities, including timely and thorough evaluation of batch documentation.
• Partner with site teams to improve batch release timelines and identify process improvement opportunities that enhance efficiency and compliance.
• Provide shop floor quality support during manufacturing operations, including real-time guidance and oversight of production activities.
• Review and support quality system records, including deviations, CAPAs, change controls, and investigations, ensuring they are managed in a compliant and timely manner.
• Ensure all quality records are completed accurately, thoroughly, and in accordance with GMP requirements and regulatory expectations.
• Escalate compliance concerns and quality risks appropriately to site leadership and relevant stakeholders, ensuring issues receive proper attention and resolution.
• Serve as the quality representative for manufacturing, labeling, and packaging activities, providing guidance on quality and compliance requirements.
• Support inspection readiness and compliance initiatives by helping prepare documentation, processes, and teams for regulatory and internal inspections.
• Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders to drive quality actions to completion, ensuring commitments are met and improvements are sustained.
• Identify opportunities to strengthen quality processes and improve operational efficiency across manufacturing and quality systems.
• Partner with manufacturing, quality, technical operations, and leadership teams to align on quality expectations and drive consistent execution.
• Communicate effectively across all levels of the organization, providing clear, concise, and actionable quality-related updates and recommendations.
• Provide constructive challenge when necessary and advocate for compliance-focused decision making, balancing operational needs with regulatory and quality requirements.

Essential Skills

• Bachelor's degree in a scientific or engineering discipline.
• 5–8+ years of Quality Assurance experience within a pharmaceutical manufacturing environment.
• Direct experience supporting drug product manufacturing and fill-finish operations.
• Hands-on experience with batch record review and batch release activities.
• Experience managing deviations, including investigation, documentation, and closure.
• Experience with CAPAs, including development, implementation, and effectiveness checks.
• Experience with change controls in a GMP-regulated manufacturing environment.
• Strong understanding of GMP-regulated pharmaceutical manufacturing environments and regulatory expectations.
• Solid knowledge of pharmaceutical quality systems and compliance requirements, including FDA and EMA expectations.
• Experience working with CMOs and CDMOs or similar external manufacturing partners.
• Proficiency in quality assurance practices related to labeling, packaging, and batch disposition.
• Ability to provide quality oversight on the shop floor and support real-time decision making.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to influence cross-functional teams and leadership.
• Ability to identify, assess, and escalate quality and compliance risks appropriately.

Additional Skills & Qualifications

• Experience supporting injectable products, biologics, monoclonal antibodies, or aseptic manufacturing operations.
• Prior experience working in commercial pharmaceutical manufacturing environments.
• Experience supporting batch disposition and product release decisions in a commercial setting.
• Familiarity with inspection readiness activities and regulatory inspection support.
• Experience working with contract manufacturing and development organizations (CMOs and CDMOs).
• Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to identify process improvement opportunities within quality systems and manufacturing operations.
• Demonstrated ability to provide constructive challenge and advocate for compliance-focused decisions.
• Comfort working in a highly visible role with significant cross-functional interaction and responsibility.

Work Environment

This is an on-site role supporting pharmaceutical manufacturing operations in a GMP-regulated environment. The position follows a Monday–Friday, first-shift schedule, with occasional requirements to provide shop floor support during manufacturing activities. The role involves entering manufacturing areas, which may require appropriate gowning and adherence to cleanroom or controlled area procedures. The work setting is highly collaborative, with frequent interaction across Quality, Manufacturing, and Technical Operations teams. The environment emphasizes cross-functional partnership, real-time quality oversight, and a strong culture of compliance and continuous improvement.

This is a Contract position based out of Greenville, NC.

The pay range for this position is $70.00 - $90.00/hr.

Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job classification and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may be subject to specific elections, plan, or program terms. If eligible, the benefits available for this temporary role may include the following:
• Medical, dental & vision
• Critical Illness, Accident, and Hospital
• 401(k) Retirement Plan – Pre-tax and Roth post-tax contributions available
• Life Insurance (Voluntary Life & AD&D for the employee and dependents)
• Short and long-term disability
• Health Spending Account (HSA)
• Transportation benefits
• Employee Assistance Program
• Time Off/Leave (PTO, Vacation or Sick Leave)

This is a fully onsite position in Greenville,NC.

This position is anticipated to close on Jul 28, 2026.

About Actalent

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