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QA Operations Specialist (230)

Employer
Civica Rx
Location
Petersburg, VA
Start date
Feb 2, 2025
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Job Details

About Civica:

Critical shortages of essential generic injectable drugs are an ongoing crisis in U.S. healthcare and have reached an all-time high. Over 300 essential medications are currently reported to be in shortage, according to industry and FDA reports.

Shortages put patients at risk and waste hospital resources.

Civica is a market-based nonprofit solution created in 2018 by health systems and philanthropies for the express purpose of preventing and mitigating drug shortages. Today, nearly 60 health systems have joined Civica, representing over 1,400 hospitals and approximately one-third of all U.S. hospital beds. Civica has also supplied the U.S. Department of Veteran’s Affairs, the U.S. Department of Defense and the U.S. Strategic National Stockpile with essential medicines. Civica currently supplies medicines to health system members in 49 states.

Civica’s mission has expanded beyond the hospital setting to reach consumers directly through CivicaScript, which is dedicated to making quality outpatient generic medicines affordable and available. CivicaScript works with trusted manufacturing partners to develop quality generic medicines and has forged partnerships with like-minded payors, pharmacy benefit managers and pharmacies to enable significant cost savings to be passed along to their customers.

Civica’s new 140,000 square foot state-of-the-art manufacturing facility in Virginia will soon produce a steady supply of more than three dozen sterile injectables, all drugs that are currently in or near shortage. The plant will also produce affordable biosimilar insulins, ensuring all Americans have access to lower cost, quality insulins, regardless of their insurance status.

The Civica Foundation is a 501(c)(3) organization that fosters philanthropic support for Civica’s work to manufacture and distribute affordable medications. The Foundation’s first commitment is to support Civica’s efforts to bring affordable insulin to all Americans. Leaders from nearly every corner of the diabetes ecosystem are partners in this initiative. 

Civica is leading a movement for patients, not profits. Because eliminating shortages and stabilizing high prices are in the best interest of patients.

Join us. Learn more at  www.civicarx.org

Job Description

The QA Operations Specialist will join the Civica, Inc. (“Civica”) organization and its newly forming team at the Petersburg, Virginia site by bringing their knowledge and experience in service to patients and pursuit of excellence in quality and compliance.  The Petersburg site serves as Civica’s new fill finish facility dedicated to the manufacture and supply of essential generic sterile injectable medications. 

The role is essential to assure the Petersburg site’s manufacturing and operations activities comply with applicable regulatory standards (e.g., Current Good Manufacturing Practices, Good Distribution Practices) and expectations for the development and reliable supply of quality medicines. 

Responsibilities of this position include, but are not limited to, Quality Operations review and approval of materials, bill of materials, batch records and GMP documentation to support the design, implementation, and maintenance of manufacturing processes that meets or exceed FDA requirements.  

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

  • Support operational compliance aspects of sterile fill-finish manufacturing of products including but not limited to material, bill of material and executed batch record review and approval.
  • Partner with operations to develop manufacturing batch records to be compliant with regulatory and company requirements.
  • Working cross-functionally to determine defect criticality, inspection methods, and training plans for both QA Operations and Manufacturing employees.
  • Provide cross-functional support to MSAT and Operations in establishing process limits for manufacturing processes such as filling and packaging.
  • Act as a resource for colleagues.
  • Lead or participate in Quality Risk Management Processes as needed.
  • Promote a safety and quality-first mindset in daily job functions.
  • Consistently represent the Quality Unit as a proactive and GxP-compliant team player when working with Operations in daily job duties.
  • Ensure that all aspects of the handling, and manufacturing of pharmaceutical products at the site comply with Civica and relevant FDA and Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) regulatory requirements.
  • Support material receipt, quality control, chain of custody, disposition, and release of materials within the Enterprise Resource Planning system.
  • Maintain current knowledge of FDA and Civica requirements to keep pace with evolving requirements for manufacturing.
  • Support, lead, or approve documents, change controls, investigations and CAPAs to support Civica’s Quality Management System.
  • Proactively identify and work collaboratively to resolve problems by taking risk-based and compliant approaches to solutions.
  • Proactively be a team lead for department objectives with a minimal amount of supervision.
    • Includes complex project management that may overlap with other functional areas.
  • Support site objectives with a minimal amount of supervision.
    • Includes simple project management that may involve other functional areas.

Basic Qualifications and Capabilities:

  • Bachelor’s degree with 4+ years of experience in a QA role in a cGMP production environment.
  • Associate degree with 6+ years of experience in a QA role in a cGMP production environment may be considered.
  • Ability to apply technical expertise to solve problems and issues.
  • Participating in and leading activities that support regulatory agency inspections is required.
  • Project management, organization, and execution skills are required.
  • Excellent interpersonal and written communication skills and experience using various software/electronic applications required.
  • Self-motivated, flexible, and able to work in a small, fast-paced, dynamic, environment.
  • Ability to work autonomously and within established guidelines, procedures, and practices.
  • Committed to delivering high-quality results, working with others to overcome challenges, and focusing on what matters.
  • Continuously looking for opportunities to learn, build skills, and share knowledge with others.

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Manufacturing Batch Record Design experience is highly desirable.
  • Technical expertise in sterile pharmaceutical isolator technology, combination products and medical devices is highly desirable.
  • Experience in Drug Enforcement Agency requirements for the handling and distribution of controlled substances is desired.

Position ID: 230

Shift: Day Shift. Monday through Friday.


Company

WHY CIVICA?
Because patients should have the essential medicines they need when they need them. As a rapidly growing, entrepreneurial, nonprofit generic drug company created by hospital systems and philanthropies, Civica’s mission is to reduce and prevent drug shortages while assuring quality generic medicines are accessible and affordable to everyone. 
 
WHO CIVICA SERVES
While serving 50 health systems and 1,350 hospitals (or 30% of all licensed U.S. hospital beds), Civica also supplies the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, the U.S. Department of Defense, and “340B” hospitals caring for vulnerable patients in some of the country’s most underserved areas. And recently, Civica contributed more than 2-million vials of essential medications to the strategic national stockpile. With 40 sterile injectable medications under contract to supply our member hospitals, Civica is growing and on track to have 100 drugs available by 2023.   

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Location
1 Civica Way
Petersburg
VA
23805
United States

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