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Job Description

Job Title: Quality Control Supervisor

Location: Thousand Oaks, CA

About the role:

The QC Supervisor is responsible for shaping, and monitoring daily operations, activities, and workflow for the team. You will ensure the implementation of testing standards, policies and ensures safety measures are followed. Additionally, the supervisor supports laboratory personnel with performance, development, feedback and other areas.

This position will work Wednesday- Saturday.

How you will contribute:

• Daily Operations: Plan and organize daily laboratory tasks including production, scheduling, staffing, and material management.

• Compliance & Quality: Implement and ensure compliance with quality and regulatory requirements (e.g., FDA, GLP, cGMP) and testing SOPs.

• Documentation & Reporting: Ensure accurate completion of all tests and laboratory documentation; prepare SOPs, reports, protocols, and memos.

• Equipment Management: Operate, troubleshoot, and maintain lab equipment; ensure equipment maintenance and calibration.

• Audit Readiness: Participate in internal and external audits, ensuring plant audit readiness and responding to observations.

• Training & Development: Conduct training, provide feedback, and coach staff to improve team performance.

• Process Improvement: Lead technical reviews, investigations, and process improvement projects to increase efficiency and quality.

• Safety & Best Practices: Ensure laboratory safety, handle biohazardous materials properly, and apply good laboratory practices.

• Quality Systems Management: Oversee changes within quality systems and support global document reviews for local compliance.

• Communication: Write detailed investigation summaries, memos, and participate in proactive functions that solve problems and support new products.

What you bring to Takeda:

• Bachelor's degree in Biological Sciences of microbiology strongly preferred.

• Minimum 3 years of related work experience; leadership experience is preferred.

• Experience in laboratory, biotechnology, pharmaceutical or similar GMP manufacturing environment is strongly preferred.

• Documented/Certified training in DMAIC and LEAN concepts a plus.

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:

• In general, it's a combination of sedentary work, walking around the lab and supporting the daily activities as needed.
• 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.
• Will need to remove all make-up, jewelry, contact lenses, nail polish and/or artificial fingernails while in the manufacturing environment.
• May work in a cold, hot or wet environment.
• May work around chemicals such as alcohol, acids, buffers and Celite that may require respiratory protection.
• Able to work 4 days a week, 10 hours a day including weekends and possibly holidays.
• May require availability outside regular business hours and/or on-call support.
• Able to work more than a 40-hour work week and adjust shift 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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