Cleaning Validation Specialist
- Contract
Company Description
QRC Group, LLC is a firm dedicated to offer services to the Pharmaceutical, Medical Devices and Chemical Industries in the validation and regulatory fields.
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Job Description
Under limited supervision, this position has the following tasks and duties.
- Active participation in Cleaning Validation team meetings to provide input on projects timeline considerations, activities, escalations and status of assigned tasks.
- Evaluate and understand cleaning processes.
- Evaluate paper forms, protocols, process and equipment cleaning instructions to transfer them to new digital platform.
- Assess work centers equipment capability and cleaning instructions for improvement purposes.
- Serve as Subject Matter Expert to develop cleaning validation protocols, reports, executable instructions and implementation of additional data integrity requirements.
- Revise and approve cleaning strategy documents.
- Participate in the revision of the cleaning documentation records related to the manufacturing stages and steps.
- Lead and/or participate on triage activities to assess change control requirements.
- Issuance or support on change control generation.
- Issuance change control and present it to the Change Control Board to pursue approval of the change.
- Review documentation associated to cleaning program (cleaning validation master plan, risk assessment, protocols, reports, working instructions, sampling scheme, limit calculations, etc.).
- Revise equipment cleaning instructions while transferring to new digital platform.
- Revise SOPs related to cleaning program and requirements.
- Participate /lead the data integrity assessment and actions for cleaning program.
- Lead training activities provided to manufacturing operators.
- Support On Call rotation for cleaning execution activities.
- 100% dedicated to cleaning validation program
- Comply with Individual Learning Plan Requirements including qualification modules for Darwin, Trackwise, VEEVA (Quality Docs) among others.
- Comply with additional tasks requested by supervisor.
Qualifications
Education & Qualifications
- Bachelor’s Degree in Science or Engineering (Chemistry, Microbiology, Chemical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, or related field).
- Training or certifications aligned with quality systems, validation, or data integrity (Darwin, TrackWise, VEEVA/Quality Docs) as required by the role.
Experience
- 3–7 years of experience in Cleaning Validation within pharmaceutical, biotechnology, or other regulated manufacturing environments
- Experience developing and reviewing:
- Cleaning Validation Protocols & Reports
- Cleaning Validation Master Plans
- Risk Assessments
- Sampling Schemes
- Working Instructions
- Limit Calculations
- Equipment Cleaning Instructions
- SOPs related to cleaning programs
Technical Skills
- Strong knowledge of:
- Cleaning processes and acceptance criteria
- Equipment and work center assessments for cleaning capability
- Sampling procedures (swab/rinse) and limit calculations
- Regulated documentation and change control processes
- Data integrity principles applied to cleaning (ALCOA+)
- Ability to evaluate existing documents (protocols, forms, instructions) and transfer them to digital platforms.
- Experience participating in and presenting to Change Control Boards.
System Skills
- Proficiency with:
- Darwin
- TrackWise
- VEEVA (Quality Docs)
- Digital documentation and execution platforms
Soft Skills
- Ability to lead meetings, training, and technical activities.
- Strong attention to detail in documentation review and regulatory compliance.
- Ability to work with limited supervision.
- Strong teamwork and communication skills across functions such as Manufacturing, QA, Engineering, etc.
- Availability to support on-call rotation as required.
Other Requirements
- 100% dedication to the Cleaning Validation Program.
- Ability to comply with additional tasks assigned by the supervisor.
- Participation in triage activities to determine change control requirements.
- Ability to lead or support data integrity assessments within the cleaning program.
Additional Information
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