Job Title: Quality Assurance Associate

Job Type: Full-time, Permanent

Location: Codford, Wiltshire, UK – On-site

Cpl Life Sciences is collaborating with a growing organisation that meets patient demand for a dependable supply of high quality, UK produced, cannabis-based medicines. The business operates a brand-new state of the art growing facility, processing environment, and laboratory.

Primary responsibilities:

• Ensuring the maintenance and inspection readiness of our GMP quality management system
• Managing Quality Events such as deviations, CAPAs, and change controls
• Managing the GACP QMS
• Assisting with Home Office licensing compliance where required.
• Writing, updating and reviewing records, SOPs, and other documents
• Working with the Production Manager and the Quality Control Manager to ensure compliance with the QMS and Good Documentation Practice
• Track and ensure compliance with SOP review cycles and training

Quality Event Management:

• Identifying and raising deviations
• Leading root cause analysis
• Generating and implementing CAPA plans
• Change management and post-implementation review
• Tracking QE metrics and reporting them to the business

Self-inspection

• Oversee self-inspections of the quality system and conduct independent audits and risk assessments for all relevant activities
• Maintain knowledge and understanding of regulatory requirements in relation to the role

Supplier Management

• Oversee the approval of Customers and Suppliers
• Where required, communicate and work with the external supplier's QA functions

Communication:

• Working closely and communicating effectively with the Growing, Production, Quality Control and Commercial functions to ensure the product is released safely and efficiently

Controlled Drugs

• Assisting with Home Office licensing compliance where required

Desired Qualifications and Experience:

• Experience in a GxP environment
• Management of a QMS and quality events
• Relevant degree

For more information, please contact lucy.kirkaldy@cpl.com

This role is working for a startup organisation, so you must be a strong communicator who is dynamic and able to pick up things quickly. Due to the nature of the work, this will be 100% on site, and you must own your own car to travel to the site.

The working hours are 8am till 5pm and it a 42hr week.