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Job Description

About the Role:

As a QC Planner at Takeda's Thousand Oaks location, you will be at the forefront of ensuring our Quality Control (QC) lab meets its testing standards and deadlines. You will play a pivotal role in planning, organizing, and directing all QC testing activities, while collaborating with cross-functional teams to uphold safety and quality measures.

How You Will Contribute

• Develop and implement a QC plan for timely and accurate testing of products and materials.

• Collaborate with Manufacturing, QA, and Supply Chain to ensure prompt testing and resource alignment.

• Coordinate with external labs to manage outsourced testing and maintain quality standards.

• Be the point of contact for QC Labs and represent Thousand Oaks in cross-site meetings.

• Manage and schedule weekly testing activities, ensuring batch testing optimization and lab coverage.

• Resolve potential issues to ensure labs meet lead time adherence and escalate unresolved concerns.

• Work with lab functions to ensure equipment availability and reliability.

• Coordinate project-specific testing to meet deliverables while maintaining routine QC testing.

• Ensure audit readiness and provide guidance to ensure regulatory compliance.

• Promote continuous improvement and increase QC team capabilities.

What You Bring to Takeda:

• Bachelor’s degree in Chemistry, Microbiology, or Biological Science.

• 3+ years of QC experience in laboratory, biotechnology, pharmaceutical, or similar GMP manufacturing environment.

• Experience with Lean or Six Sigma methodologies is desirable.

What Takeda can offer you:

• Comprehensive Healthcare: Medical, Dental, and Vision

• Financial Planning & Stability: 401(k) with company match and Annual Retirement Contribution Plan

• Health & Wellness programs including onsite flu shots and health screenings

• Generous time off for vacation and the option to purchase additional vacation days

• Community Outreach Programs and company match of charitable contributions

• Family Planning Support

• Professional training and development opportunities

• Tuition reimbursement

Important Considerations:

At Takeda, our patients rely on us to deliver quality products. As a result, we must follow strict rules in our manufacturing facilities to ensure we are not endangering the quality of the product. In this role, you may:

• Work in a controlled environment requiring special gowning and wear protective clothing over the head, face, hands, feet and body. This may include additional hearing protection for loud areas.

• Need to remove all make-up, jewelry, contact lenses, nail polish and/or artificial fingernails while in the manufacturing environment.

• Work in a cold, wet environment.

• Work multiple shifts, including weekends, or be asked to work supplemental hours, as necessary.

• Work around chemicals such as alcohol, acids, buffers and Celite that may require respiratory protection.

• In general, it's a combination of sedentary work, walking around the lab and supporting the daily activities as needed.

• Office work environment

• May work in controlled or clean room environments requiring special gowning.

• May support QC analysts in the laboratory as needed.

• Availability outside regular business hours may be required.

• Able to work more than 8 hours per day or 40 hours per week as needed.

More about us:

At Takeda, we are transforming patient care through the development of novel specialty pharmaceuticals and best in class patient support programs. Takeda is a patient-focused company that will inspire and empower you to grow through life-changing work.

Certified as a Global Top Employer, Takeda offers stimulating careers, encourages innovation, and strives for excellence in everything we do. We foster an inclusive, collaborative workplace, in which our teams are united by an unwavering commitment to deliver Better Health and a Brighter Future to people around the world.

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