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Now Hiring! Quality Systems Team Lead

Geismar, LA

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The Quality Systems Team Leader serves as the quality program leader and advisor for BASF's largest Site in North America. A wide range of products are produced at the Geismar Site, including those for technical applications as well as bulk active pharmaceutical ingredients. In this role, you will have the opportunity to manage and further develop the Site's quality program in support of multiple business and operating units. You will interface with multiple organizational levels while providing your leadership, support, and guidance. In addition, you will have opportunities to further develop your leadership skills in a highly visible position. Your team members will have responsibility for providing expertise for FDA, ISO, cGMP, RCMS, and other quality-related requirements across multiple operating units. In addition, your team will have responsibility for managing multiple quality systems, including non conformance management, corrective/preventive actions, internal audits, document control, records retention, and laboratory information management.

1. Serving as the Site Quality Management Representative, you will represent both the Geismar and North Geismar Sites and have responsibility for ensuring that all quality systems are suitable, adequate, and effective.
2. Your leadership skills will enable you to support a team of Quality and cGMP Specialists in ensuring that products manufactured comply with various regulatory, customer, and business unit quality requirements.
3. Your demonstrated experience in Quality Management Systems in a cGMP environment is desired to continue to develop a robust quality culture and mature quality systems and work processes.
4. A continuous improvement mindset will afford you the opportunity to further establish the team's reputation as a solutions provider, while frequently evaluating the Site's quality processes for improvement opportunities.
5. A strong customer focus mindset will allow you to interface with multiple business partners on Site in developing, implementing, and modifying quality processes to ensure Sitewide consistency and customer satisfaction while maintaining regulatory compliance.
6. Your strong commitment to employee development will guide you in fostering the professional development of your team of Quality Specialists.
7. Communication skills will lead to success in providing transparency to your business partners and direct reports when changes to quality processes can impact production and work processes.

You will need...

Formal education in a scientific or technical discipline, coupled with practical experience in quality management systems (including cGMP manufacturing) will enable the selected candidate to successfully fulfill the requirements of leading a quality management system for a large and complex chemical manufacturing facility with various regulatory and customer requirements. In lieu of a Bachelor's Degree, an Associate's Degree coupled with demonstrated experience in Quality Management Systems, particularly cGMP, is acceptable.

We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, age, citizenship, color, religion, sex, marital status, national origin, disability status, gender identity or expression, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis.