Quality Assurance Administrator

**Job Description**:
**Quality Assurance Administrator**
- Permanent Full-time opportunity, based in Wellington, New Zealand
- Join a collaborative, supportive team within quality group

Our Quality Assurance group ensures every single material inside our products is manufactured, processed, tested, packaged, stored and distributed aligned with our incredibly high standards of quality and meets all regulatory requirements. Partnering across our internal manufacturing facilities, external contract manufacturers and suppliers we create an interdependent global manufacturing network dedicated to deliver a compliant, reliable supply to customers and patients on time, every time, across the globe.

**What you will do**

**_Primary activities include, but are not limited to:_**
- Administration functions such as scanning of documents, organizing the mail run, formatting of documents etc.
- Assisting Managers as required, through the preparation of word processing documentation and / or presentations.
- Draft reports as required e.g. EU Protocols, Quality Metrics.
- Perform purchasing activities.
- Ensuring documents are completed accurately and in a timely manner.
- Travel, functions, and accommodation bookings.
- Meetings and expense reporting.
- Organizing internal/external training.
- Administers Learning Management System for the Quality Group to ensure retention of training records complies with corporate and GMP requirements.

**_ Archive Management_**
- Manages QA Archives (including electronic files and scanned documents) to ensure prompt retrieval of QA documents in accordance with record retention policies and SOPs. Controls entry and removal of documents into QA Archives and QA computer files.
- Archive functions across the Quality Group
- Organizing archiving of records with the off-site Archive Facility

**_ General Documentation_**
- Generate and maintain all documentation in accordance with Company and relevant quality standards.
- Ensure all records are maintained in accordance with Company and relevant quality standards.
- Define processes and facilitate improvements through updated standards, and subsequent training.

**What you must have**
- Diploma or bachelor degree in science-based discipline
- Driver’s license is required
- Understanding and knowledge of Quality Assurance systems and Good Laboratory Practice
- Minimum 1+ years’ experience in a QA/GLP environment as a Quality Officer
- Attention to detail when reviewing documentation for accuracy and completeness; ability to ‘read for meaning’ and identify basic non-compliance issues. Developing knowledge of processes involved in manufacturing, testing and distribution of product.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills and the ability to positively influence others.
- High level of proficiency in Microsoft Office applicants, SAP
- Possess a sound and logical approach to problem solving
- Ability to plan your work schedule to meet deadlines

Our Manufacturing & Supply Division is dedicated to being the most trusted supplier of biopharmaceuticals worldwide. Our facilities, along with our external contractors, suppliers, and partners, create a reliable global manufacturing network that’s devoted to delivering a high-quality, reliable supply to customers and patients on time, every time.

**WHO WE ARE**

We are known as Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, New Jersey, USA in the United States and Canada and MSD everywhere else. For more than a century, we have been inventing for life, bringing forward medicines and vaccines for many of the world's most challenging diseases. Today, our company continues to be at the forefront of research to deliver innovative health solutions and advance the prevention and treatment of diseases that threaten people and animals around the world.

**WHAT WE LOOK FOR**

Imagine getting up in the morning for a job as important as helping to save and improve lives around the world. Here, you have that opportunity. You can put your empathy, creativity, digital mastery, or scientific genius to work in collaboration with a diverse group of colleagues who pursue and bring hope to countless people who are battling some of the most challenging diseases of our time. Our team is constantly evolving, so if you are among the intellectually curious, join us—and start making your impact today.

We are proud to be a company that embraces the value of bringing diverse, talented, and committed people together. The fastest way to breakthrough innovation is when diverse ideas come together in an inclusive environment. We encourage our colleagues to respectfully challenge one another’s thinking and approach problems collectively. We are an equal opportunity employer, committed to fostering an inclusive and diverse workplace.

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**Employee Status**:
Regular

**Relocation**:
No relocation

**VISA Sponsorship**:
**Travel Requirements**:
10%

**Flexible Work Arrangements