- Coordinate and facilitate QA-related production and production-related activities.
- Prioritize Quality Assurance workload as needed/priorities shift.
- Independently address and report on daily operational issues, as needed.
- Responsible for new hire employee training, employee growth and development/guidance and conducting performance reviews in a timely and objective manner.
- Review batch-related documentation and ensure resolution of issues to release product.
- Perform overall batch disposition and sign product certificate of analysis.
- Ensure that products are manufactured in compliance with site procedures, regulatory and cGMP guidelines.
- Control document lifecycle activities, including biennial review of procedures and document retention for select SOPs.
- Participate in site inspections and inspection readiness activities.
- Enhance skills via regular training and continuing education, including professional society membership/participation.
- Completion of gowning qualification and maintaining status for entry into Aseptic processing area. Must be able to demonstrate a sound knowledge of aseptic gowning practices.
- Author, Approve or Authorize documents as assigned. Documents include but are not limited to: Master Production Records, Quality Control test methods/forms, Method Qualification/Validation records, etc. Authorization includes a review of the content for applicability in connection with customer audit/inspections as well as GMP compliance.
- Perform other duties as required.
- Minimum of a Bachelor’s degree in related field and/or equivalent experience.
- Minimum of 5-7 years of experience in quality and/or manufacturing in a pharmaceutical, biotech, or biologics cGMP regulated manufacturing environment preferred.
- Working knowledge of quality operations and ability to apply cGMPs in conformance to U.S. standards, and where appropriate, other regulatory authority standards.
- Working knowledge of GCP, GDP, GLP and cGMP regulations and their relevant ISO counterparts and ICH Guidelines
- Thorough knowledge of aseptic manufacturing processes.
- Thorough knowledge of batch disposition.
- Excellent organizational skills, attention to detail, and Good Documentation Practices.
- Proficiency in MS Word, Excel, Power Point, Microsoft Office 365 and other applications.
- Ability to communicate and work independently with scientific and/or technical personnel.
- Must possess effective interpersonal, verbal, and writing skills, patience, professionalism, and the ability to effectively interact and communicate with internal staff and management.
- Excellent organizational skills, attention to detail, and Good Documentation Practices.
- Proficiency in MS Word, Excel, Power Point, Microsoft Office 365 and other applications.
- Must possess effective interpersonal, verbal, and writing skills, patience, professionalism, and the ability to effectively interact and communicate with internal staff and management.
- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, patient-focused manufacturing environment with minimal direction and able to adjust workload based on changing priorities.
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Abeona Therapeutics Inc. is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing cell and gene therapies for serious diseases. Prademagene zamikeracel (pz-cel) is Abeona’s investigational autologous, COL7A1 gene-corrected epidermal sheets currently in development for recessive dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa. The Company’s fully integrated cell and gene therapy cGMP manufacturing facility served as the manufacturing site for pz-cel used in its Phase 3 VIITAL™ trial, and is capable of supporting commercial production of pz-cel upon FDA approval. The Company’s development portfolio also features AAV-based gene therapies for ophthalmic diseases with high unmet medical need. Abeona’s novel, next-generation AAV capsids are being evaluated to improve tropism profiles for a variety of devastating diseases