QA Specialist II Deviations and Front-Line Support

Job Description

We’re here for one reason and one reason only – to cure cancer. Every moment is dedicated to developing treatments and every action moves us one step closer to our goal. We’ve made incredible scientific breakthroughs and our pioneering personalized CAR T-cell therapies have changed the paradigm. But we're not finished yet.

Join Kite, as we make even bigger advances in cancer therapies, and help shape where our business and medical science goes next.

We believe every employee deserves a great leader. People Leaders are the cornerstone to the employee experience at Gilead and Kite. As a people leader now or in the future, you are the key driver in evolving our culture and creating an environment where every employee feels included, developed and empowered to fulfil their aspirations. Join Kite and help create more tomorrows.

Job Description

This role is based full time on site at Hoofddorp, including a weekend shift pattern.

Knowledge

• Strong working knowledge of Good Manufacturing Practices (GMPs) and/or Good Laboratory Practices (GLPs).
• Experience in deviation and CAPA management, impact assessments, and root cause investigations.
• Strong technical writing, reporting, and documentation review skills.
• Effective verbal communication, interpersonal, and stakeholder‑management skills.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office applications.

Responsibilities

• Performs a variety of QA activities to ensure compliance with applicable regulatory requirements and Kite procedures.
• Maintains programs and processes to ensure high quality products and compliance with current Good Manufacturing Practices (GMPs) and Good Laboratory Practices (GLPs).
• Provide front‑line QA support to escalations, ensuring timely actions and clear resolution paths.
• Contribute to the Quality on the floor processes, including shopfloor rounds and real‑time QA support.
• Performs QA review and approval of deviations and corrective and preventive action (CAPA).
• Conducts or acts as a coordinator of investigations and CAPA recommendations related to manufactured products
• Identifies and reports deviations from approved processes and procedures to senior colleagues.
• Participates in developing Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) to ensure quality objectives are met
• Exercises judgment within well-defined established procedures and practices to determine appropriate action – identifies problems and generates alternatives and recommendations within defined processes.
• Works directly with operating entities to ensure that inspections and audits are conducted on a continuing basis as specified to enforce requirements and meet specifications.
• May act as mentor to junior staff with some task management responsibility.
• Contributes to QA projects and participates in cross-functional teams.
• Coordinates planning, organization and implementation of projects within specified objectives.
• Works on more complex, non-routine projects/assignments where analysis of situation or data requires a review of identifiable factors.
• Additional duties as assigned

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree (BS/BA) with 3+ years of relevant experience in a GMP‑regulated environment, or Master’s degree (MS) with 1+ years of relevant experience.
• Prior experience in the pharmaceutical or biopharmaceutical industry preferred

Kite is a biopharmaceutical company engaged in the development of innovative cancer immunotherapies with a goal of providing rapid, long-term durable response and eliminating the burden of chronic care. The company is focused on chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) and T cell receptor (TCR) engineered cell therapies designed to empower the immune system's ability to recognize and kill tumors. Kite is based in Santa Monica, CA. For more information on Kite, please visit www.kitepharma.com. Sign up to follow @KitePharma on Twitter at www.twitter.com/kitepharma.

Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO)

It is the policy of Gilead Sciences, Inc. and its subsidiaries and affiliates (collectively "Gilead" or the "Company") to recruit select and employ the most qualified persons available for positions throughout the Company.  Except if otherwise provided by applicable law, all  employment actions relating to issues such as compensation, benefits, transfers, layoffs, returns from layoffs, company-sponsored training, education assistance, social and recreational programs are administered on a non-discriminatory basis (i.e. without regard to protected characteristics or prohibited grounds, which may include an individual’s gender, race, color, national origin, ancestry, religion, creed, physical or mental disability, marital status, sexual orientation, medical condition, veteran status, and age, unless such protection is prohibited by federal, state, municipal, provincial, local or other applicable laws).  Gilead also prohibits discrimination based on any other characteristics protected by applicable laws.

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