Job Title: Senior Quality Assurance Technician
Location: Chesterfield, S44 6AE
Salary: £28,000 - £30,000
Working Pattern: Monday to Friday, with 2 to 3 day working from home
Hours: 40
Type of Role: Permanent
Join Peak Pharmacy – A Family-Run Business That Cares
Peak Pharmacy is a long-established, family-run business that has grown steadily while staying true to its community-focused values. We take pride in supporting the health and wellbeing of our local communities and fostering a warm, supportive environment for our colleagues. P&AJ Cattee (Wholesale) Ltd is a wholesale distributor of pharmaceutical products which is part of the Peak Pharmacy Group of Companies
About the Role:
The Senior QA Technician operates within the QA Department to help ensure compliance of company operations with applicable legislation and regulatory requirements.
Roles and responsibilities:
Quality Management System (QMS)
1. Writing and updating standard operating procedures (SOPs) and Work Instructions (WIs).
2. Creating training materials including presentations, videos, and competency assessments to be shared with company employees.
3. Completing QMS records including deviation investigations, risk assessments, change controls, and CAPAs (Corrective Actions and Preventative Actions).
4. Working alongside other departments to manage the implementation of planned changes.
5. Performing appropriate due diligence of suppliers and customers of medicinal products.
6. Participating in regular meetings with service providers to discuss the potential for continual improvements.
7. Helping collate metrics on Key Performance Indicators to support routine trending and Quality Management Review meetings.
8. Reviewing documents and records in the Quality Management System.
9. Performing ad-hoc tasks relating to Quality Functions, as requested.
Products
10. Investigating customer complaints.
11. Monitoring the sales patterns of high-risk products with abuse potential.
12. Detecting, reporting, and investigating signs of illegal activity where products may be falsified, counterfeit, stolen, or diverted.
13. Coordinating medicinal product recalls in an organised and timely manner to ensure patients do not receive medicines with possible defects.
Facility and Software
14. Performing seasonal temperature mapping studies (facility + vehicles).
15. Writing and executing test scripts to validate computer systems.
16. Qualifying equipment and performing challenge testing under different failure modes.
Inspections/Audits
17. Performing audits on internal systems, processes, and departments according to an approved schedule of self-inspections.
18. Performing monthly self-inspections at the ‘other sites’ named on page 1. A company pool car will be provided for all commuting to these premises.
What We’re Looking For:
19. 3 A-Levels (including at least one Science (Biology, Chemistry, Physics or Geography), or an equivalent qualification in a discipline of science or pharmacy, e.g., BTEC Level 3.
20. An applicable degree, or at least 2 years of experience in Quality Assurance (QA) or Quality Control (QC) within the pharmaceutical, medical device, food, or chemicals industry. (These include but are not limited to Biology, Chemistry, Biochemistry, Bio-Medical Science, Pharmacology, Forensics, Law, Psychology, Environmental Science, and Geography. Degrees in other subjects will also be considered, particularly if the studies involved written assignments such as essays.
21. A team player who is dependable, professional, and supportive of colleagues.
Why Join Peak Pharmacy?
22. Supportive team culture with a focus on wellbeing and development.
23. No Weekend or bank holiday working.
24. A welcoming and people-first workplace.
25. Employee discounts
To Apply:
Apply via the link provided, or for more information contact us directly at recruitment@peakpharmacy.co.uk.