Quality Control Scientist

3 days ago

Manukau, Auckland, New Zealand Douglas Pharmaceuticals Full time

Why this role matters

Our Quality Control Team plays a crucial role in ensuring that our products meet the required quality standards and regulatory guidelines. As Quality Control (QC) Scientist, you will be accountable for driving the scientific support for non-routine analytical testing activities.

What you'll do

  • Using your extensive analytical and organic chemistry skills combined with a strong understanding of pharmaceutical quality control principles and practices, you will provide support to teams with high quality analytical testing for process validations and resolving quality issues
  • Developing and validating Chromatography methods to GMP and ICH guidelines with specific focus on Gas Chromatography
  • Support quality investigations and changes in API or excipient suppler
  • Method development, verification / tech transfer and launch and supporting the project management team by providing high quality analytical testing for process validations
  • Periodic review of analytical method validations, PQR preparation and review, residual solvent assessments, elemental impurity assessments and nitrosamines assessments
  • Adhere to agreed project timelines and schedules for compliance activities to ensure customer, regulatory and quality expectations are met

What you'll bring

  • Qualified, experienced professional - a tertiary qualification in related field with a minimum of 3 years' experience in GMP / GLP environment with strong gas chromatography experience
  • Tech savvy - Competence with Microsoft packages Word, Excel and Project
  • Pharma industry background with solid experience in Gas Chromatography
  • A Communicator - you will have excellent verbal and written communication and comprehension skills as you complete GMP documentation.
  • A quality mindset - attention to detail is essential, this comes naturally to you.

You will work with a high degree of autonomy, under time constraints and meeting project deadlines.

Why join us?

  • Award-winning culture - Join a team that's genuinely a great place to work (and we've got the awards to prove it).
  • Career growth - We're big on developing our people and promoting from within.
  • Extra leave - After six years with us, you'll get five weeks of annual leave.
  • Parental perks - Get 16 weeks of top-up payments during your parental leave.
  • Security matters - We've got you covered with life and income protection insurance.
  • Feel good with THRIVE - Our wellbeing program helps you be your best, inside and out.
  • Exclusive discounts - Enjoy special deals on big-name brands like Clinicians, BraveFace, Avene, Ego, and more.

About Us

At Douglas, we're more than just a company—we're a community of people driven to make a difference. We're proud to be one of New Zealand's biggest pharmaceutical success stories, and we're growing globally. Privately owned and future-focused, our team of 700 includes scientists, engineers, and all kinds of experts, working together to create high-quality healthcare products that help people around the world.

Come join us on this mission to improve lives

Next steps

If you're invited to complete a video interview as the next stage of your application, we'd love you to embrace it. Video interviews allow more people the opportunity to demonstrate their abilities to the hiring manager in a new and innovative way, giving you a better chance of securing your ideal role. Relax, be yourself and don't worry, we all feel a bit awkward in front of the camera.

All applicants must undergo pre-employment screening and background checks.

Job Details:
Reference

17091

Expertise

Quality Control

Job Level

Experienced

Location

West Auckland

Work Type

Permanent full-time

Application Closes

11 Dec :00

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