The Senior Quality Engineer, Risk Management has various objective/functions related to Third Party Manufacturing (TPM) plants and PQA functions. During routine operations, the Senior PQA Analyst is responsible for supporting the day to day Quality Assurance activities related to the TPM plants including but not limited to approval of manufacturing direction to the production floor, review and approval of manufacturing, laboratory, and raw material investigations, assess product impact analysis and corrective and preventive action for events, review and approval of changes as applicable. The Senior PQA Analyst also is responsible to evaluate supplier change notification, monitor process track and trending, and perform annual Product Quality Reviews. This person also acts as a liaison between AbbVie regulatory areas and TPM plants for regulatory submission.
 

Responsibilities

• Maintains an effective liaison and cooperative relationship with other AbbVie Areas including but not limited Quality, Regulatory, Technical, Supply Chain, along with the TPM sites.
• Ensures that bulk drug substance and/or drug product production at TPM sites is performed as per current good manufacturing practices, according to local procedures and as per specifications and manufacturing directions provided by AbbVie QA Operations.
• Ensures TPM procedures including but not limited to raw material specification, product specification, test methods, supplier change notification, shipping, are in compliance with cGMP, policies, regulatory approvals, and Quality Technical Agreement with TPM site.
• Review and approve manufacturing directions to the production floor.
• Provide support to PQA in global projects and events to ensure intended results are achieved; including planning, risk analysis, and implementation.
• Ensures investigations of TPM plant events related but not limited to process, laboratory, raw materials are completed thoroughly and documented accurately, including adequate product impact analyses and corrective and preventive action for plant events are documented.
• Perform annual Product Quality Review according to AbbVie global procedure to comply with regulatory requirements.
• Participates in Trend Review Board to monitor process track and trending.
• Participates in the Global Change Review Board (GCRB) meeting as TPM representative to evaluate global changes related but not limited to supplier change notifications, process, laboratory, and regulatory submissions that impacts all sites.
• Generates detailed change management plans related to TPM plants changes to ensure intended results are achieved; including planning, risk analysis, and implementation.