Job Description

As part of the Thermo Fisher Scientific team, you'll discover meaningful work that makes a positive impact on a global scale. Join our colleagues in bringing our Mission to life every single day to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner, and safer. We provide our global teams with the resources needed to achieve individual career goals while helping to take science a step beyond by developing solutions for some of the world's toughest challenges, like protecting the environment, making sure our food is safe or helping find cures for cancer.

How will you make an impact?

Thermo Fisher Scientific is making a significant investment in the dynamic and rapidly growing Cell Therapy space. Our Cell Therapy organization within the Advanced Therapy Business Unit, is one of the fastest growing areas of Thermo Fisher Scientific. We operate a 44,000-square-foot, innovative cell therapy collaboration center on the UCSF Mission Bay campus. Opened in 2023, the facility serves as a central location where customers and UCSF researchers will have access to Thermo Fisher Scientific's broad portfolio of solutions and clinical and commercial cGMP cell therapy manufacturing services, along with associated technology development support to our partners. In the Cell Therapy unit, we focus on providing development and clinical/commercial scale services for gene and non-gene modified cell processing for a variety of unmet medical needs.

The QA Specialist III will provide Quality oversight for projects, performs compliance assessments, makes decisions regarding regulatory requirements, writes new procedures, and ensures adherence to current regulations. This position reports to the Quality Assurance manager.

What will you do?

• Performs daily quality assessments of facility, personnel, and documentation both classified and non-classified areas to uncover errors or deficiencies and assure quality and compliance as required by site procedures and cGMPs.
• Provides internal and external customer support.
• Support or lead external audits (e.g. customer, corporate, notified body)
• Daily interaction with personnel to assist with troubleshooting, documentation corrections/notes, and guidance with aseptic techniques.
• Supporting QA on the floor activities.
• Develops quality culture by aiding personnel in understanding application of policies and controls.
• Ensures escalation of deviation events to the appropriate area and quality management
• Performs quality review and approval of procedures, training documents, and forms of moderate to high complexity.
• Participates as the quality assurance representative in Root Cause Analysis to support deviation investigations of moderate to high complexity.
• Perform change control activities for all document types, ensuring that the document control program meets all applicable standards and procedures and meets the required pace of business partners.
• Performs quality batch record and QC data review for Lot disposition.
• Perform raw material release for GMP use.
• Support Vendor qualifications.
• Support the execution of the site's training program.
• Maintain Quality records according to Thermo Fisher Scientific policies and procedures.
• Aids in identification of continuous improvement opportunities
• Participates in practical process improvement (PPI) initiatives.
• Other projects will be assigned as various business needs emerge.

How will you get here?

Education

• Bachelor's degree required in scientific field or related field.

Experience

• A minimum of 4 years of experience with previous experience in Quality Assurance, Quality Control environment or operations environment.
• Equivalent combinations of training and relevant work experience may be considered if at least a bachelor's degree is acquired.
• Previous experience in a cGMP environment.
• Previous experience in Cell Therapy is preferred.

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities

• Strong critical thinking skills, with a close attention to detail and history of good judgment
• Proven ability to work in a team and matrixed environment.
• Driven and resourceful, with minimal to moderate direction required.
• Proven ability to prioritize work according to urgency and impact, with good time management skills.
• Solid understanding of cGMP practices
• Expert knowledge of regulatory guidelines: EU, US, Australian, ICH, etc.
• Change control, Deviation and investigations, root cause analysis and risk assessment.
• Supply chain knowledge.
• Experience with SAP, TrackWise, LIMS, EDMS is preferred.
• Effective written, interpersonal, and presentation skills.
• Proficiency in MS Office tools (e.g. Word, Excel, PowerPoint) and ability to learn new software programs.

Our Mission is to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner, and safer. Watch as our colleagues explain 5 reasons to work with us. As one team of 100,000+ colleagues, we share a common set of values - Integrity, Intensity, Innovation, and Involvement - working together to accelerate research, solve complex scientific challenges, drive technological innovation and support patients in need. #StartYourStory at Thermo Fisher Scientific, where diverse experiences, backgrounds and perspectives are valued.

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Benefits:

We offer competitive remuneration, annual incentive plan bonus scheme, healthcare, company pension/retirement, and a range of employee benefits! Thermo Fisher Scientific offers employment with an innovative, forward-thinking organization, and outstanding career and development prospects. We offer an exciting company culture that stands for integrity, intensity, involvement, and innovation.

EEO/Reasonable Accommodation:

Thermo Fisher Scientific is an EEO/Affirmative Action Employer and does not discriminate based on race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability, or any other legally protected status. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided a reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform critical job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request an accommodation.

Accessibility/Disability Access

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Compensation and Benefits

The salary range estimated for this position based in California is $90,900.00-$136,500.00.

This position may also be eligible to receive a variable annual bonus based on company, team, and/or individual performance results in accordance with company policy. We offer a comprehensive Total Rewards package that our U.S. colleagues and their families can count on, which includes:

• A choice of national medical and dental plans, and a national vision plan, including health incentive programs
• Employee assistance and family support programs, including commuter benefits and tuition reimbursement
• At least 120 hours paid time off (PTO), 10 paid holidays annually, paid parental leave (3 weeks for bonding and 8 weeks for caregiver leave), accident and life insurance, and short- and long-term disability in accordance with company policy
• Retirement and savings programs, such as our competitive 401(k) U.S. retirement savings plan
• Employees' Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP) offers eligible colleagues the opportunity to purchase company stock at a discount

For more information on our benefits, please visit: https://jobs.thermofisher.com/global/en/total-rewards