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Design QM & Hygienist

City: Qingdao

We are Reckitt

Home to the world's best loved and trusted hygiene, health, and nutrition brands. Our purpose defines why we exist: to protect, heal and nurture in the relentless pursuit of a cleaner, healthier world. We are a global team united by this purpose. Join us in our fight to make access to the highest quality hygiene, wellness, and nourishment a right and not a privilege.

Research & Development

In Research and Development, we're full of highly skilled talents that include Scientists, Engineers, Medical, Clinical and Regulatory professionals - all working to create a cleaner, healthier world. With nine Centres of Excellence, we continually seek out new opportunities by using science, our entrepreneurial flare and our fearless innovation to develop and enhance our existing portfolio, never compromising on quality or performance.

We do the right thing, always, by ensuring we act with responsibility and integrity, by complying with regulatory legislation across the globe, whilst ensuring our products are safe for our consumers and are to the highest quality.

The size of our organisation means you'll have the opportunity to learn and work in different functions within R&D, giving you exposure to different disciplines, teams and environments. You will also have access to our Research and Development Academy, designed to develop our team and allow you to grow in our great organisation.

About the role

The role will be instrumental in factory design Change Control, work as quality representative for NPD/EPD/factory modification projects and other aspects of design responsible for continual improvement in achieving quality excellence.
To lead and proactively manage all aspects of site hygienic design, NPD/EPD that may impact on product safety, quality and efficiency. Ensure fully comply with Reckitt hygienic design policies, regulations and international standards, and act as a consultant on all microbiological/hygienic subjects.

Your responsibilities

Scope and Accountabilities:

All hygienic design related to utility & facility, equipment, process, personnel, raw material, bulk and finished product.
All the products manufactured in Qingdao London Durex Co., Ltd.
Comply with regulations pertaining to medical devices, as well as the company's quality management system documents. Ensure that the work performed in this position meets GMP requirements and fulfill the obligations related to product quality and safety as outlined in the relevant quality management documents.
Act as the consultant on all microbiology/hygiene topics to provide expertise knowledges and advices to operations, engineering and technical teams. Provide support for Capex projects approval with microbiology/hygiene impact.
Act as the leader of all microbiology/hygiene compliance issues, highlight the risks to site quality manager, global hygienist and key stakeholders, complete and maintain site risk assessment and agree on rolling action plan with site management team.
Responsible for fully comply with good hygienic design requirements, ensure appropriate microbiological and hygienic design standards are all in place and implemented all microbiological procedures across the manufacturing site.
Requires to close working with QA, QC, Engineering, Operations, Technical team to ensure each part of the product lifecycle and project all comply with microbiology and hygiene best practice. Give guidance to microbe method validation.
Lead as subject matter expert for internal and external audit activities related to microbiology and Hygiene. Conduct regular hygiene audits onsite to verify compliance level of Reckitt policies and procedures, and make the annual summary report to site lead team about overall compliance and microbe risks.
Work closely with global hygienist to develop and review Reckitt health policies on good hygienic design and microbiological standard, ensure that the site fully complies with current Reckitt standard and expectations of regulatory agencies.
Work directly with R&D on all related product vulnerabilities, RM/product technical specification for micro-b and formulation risk assessment related topics.
Continuously build and improve the technical capabilities of all site terms in terms of microbiology and hygiene, especially the engineering team and influence the wider team who provide micro-b quality assurance for the manufacturing site.
Ensure there are appropriate microbiological/hygiene training plans delivered to leadership team and workshop operators in all aspects of hygiene, product risk, good practice and microbiology awareness.
To support the MOS.
Complete tasks assigned by line manager.

The experience we're looking for

Bachelor’s degree or above in Microbiology, Chemistry Engineering, Applied Chemistry, Food or Pharma related.
At least 5 years’ experience in quality or manufacturing environment of Pharmaceutical, Healthcare, FMCG industry.
Decision making skills and communication skills.
Strong data analytical and pragmatic problem-solving skills.
Strong ability to review and identify issues/opportunities in the business.
Strong knowledges in GMP, hygienic design, regulations, regulatory guidelines for cosmetic/ disinfection/medical device products.
Audit handling experience.

What we offer

With inclusion at the heart of everything we do, working alongside our four global Employee Resource Groups, we support our people at every step of their career journey, helping them to succeed in their own individual way. We invest in the wellbeing of our people through parental benefits, an Employee Assistance Program to promote mental health, and life insurance for all employees globally. We have a range of other benefits in line with the local market. Through our global share plans we offer the opportunity to save and share in Reckitt's potential future successes. For eligible roles, we also offer short-term incentives to recognise, appreciate and reward your work for delivering outstanding results. You will be rewarded in line with Reckitt's pay for performance philosophy.

Equality

We recognise that in real life, great people don't always 'tick all the boxes'. That's why we hire for potential as well as experience. Even if you don't meet every point on the job description, if this role and our company feels like a good fit for you, we still want to hear from you. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, disability or medical condition; colour, ethnicity, race, citizenship, and national origin; religion, faith; pregnancy, family status and caring responsibilities; sexual orientation; sex, gender identity, gender expression, and transgender identity; protected veteran status; size or any other basis protected by appropriate law.

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