Job description

OBJECTIVE: The Validation Specialist develops and implements protocols to validate, calibrate, and qualify equipment and processes for the company, ensuring compliance with all applicable regulations.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Design and draft validation protocols for processes and equipment.
• Design and draft calibration protocols for equipment.
• Create draft validation protocols.
• Execute validation and calibration documents.
• Implement FDA/ISO documentation for equipment and/or processes including SOPs and preventive maintenance documents and forms.
• Work to ensure that calibrations are fully integrated to demonstrate that equipment consistently functions as intended to maintain regulatory compliance for the facility.
• Perform and document experiments to demonstrate that equipment and processes consistently function as intended to maintain regulatory compliance of the facility.
• Write draft reports based on data gathered during execution of validation documents.
• Support Engineering in compliance with FDA/ISO regulations.
• Assist with writing Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), Preventive Maintenance procedures, and other documents for equipment and processes as needed.
• Consult with other departments on FDA/ISO regulatory compliance as requested.
• Perform initial reviews of equipment usage to determine if systems need to be re-validated or calibrated.
• Evaluate external calibration protocols and schedule external vendors for maintaining calibration needs of the organization.
• Evaluate external validation protocols.
• Ensure compliance with cGMP, FDA, OSHA, and all other regulatory requirements, in accordance with company policy.
• Adhere to company safety requirements.
• Regular attendance.
• All other responsibilities as required.

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS:

• Bachelor’s degree in Science, Engineering, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Three years’ experience in Validation.
• One year’s experience in calibration.
• Knowledge of the Scientific Method.
• Knowledge of ISO and FDA requirements for GMP/GLP practices.
• Experience working in a FDA regulated manufacturing facility.
• Ability to work independently with minimal direction.
• Ability to prioritize workload to meet established deadlines.
• Familiar with Chemistry, Microbiology, and Engineering terminology.
• Ability to perform basic statistical calculations and analysis.
• Experience creating and maintaining documentation and reporting.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office.
• External qualification to a recognized certifying organization for calibrations is a plus, but is not required.

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PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS: *

• Regularly required to talk and hear.
• Required to sit for 3-4 hours at a time.
• Frequently required to walk and stand.
• Occasionally lift up to 25 pounds.
• Fine motor control to grasp small objects.
• Vision includes close vision, color vision and the ability to adjust focus.

This position is an on-site position at our Spokane, WA facility.

Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable those individuals who are disabled as defined by the Americans with Disabilities Act to perform the essential functions of this job.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: From $45,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• 401(k) matching
• Dental insurance
• Flexible schedule
• Flexible spending account
• Health insurance
• Health savings account
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Retirement plan
• Vision insurance

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift
• Monday to Friday

Work Location: One location

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