MQA Specialist I (Pharmaceutical Quality Assurance)

Location: Wilson, North Carolina, United States; onsite role with shop-floor presence

Salary: $60,966–$85,694 per year

Company

Pharmaceutical manufacturing environment focused on quality oversight, GMP compliance, and FDA-regulated product handling.

What you will do

• Provide quality oversight across production, laboratories, warehousing, storage, facilities, and utilities.
• Monitor weighing and dispensing, solution and component preparation, in-process controls, filling, lyophilization, finishing, packaging, and sampling activities.
• Act as the primary QA contact on the shop floor, providing real-time documentation guidance and troubleshooting support.
• Identify critical deviations, stop production when necessary, contain affected materials or products, and escalate systemic issues to site management.
• Support investigations, root-cause analyses, CAPAs, validation studies, media fills, repackaging, reworking, and continuous improvement projects.
• Review master batch records and logbooks for GMP and procedural compliance, and participate in 5S activities.

Requirements

• Experience or knowledge in quality assurance within a regulated pharmaceutical production environment.
• Ability to apply SOPs and cGMP requirements across manufacturing and support processes.
• Ability to assess deviations, recommend corrective action, escalate issues, and support CAPA development.
• Ability to perform or oversee visual inspection, integrity testing verification, sampling, and documentation review.
• Ability to work onsite in Wilson, North Carolina, with regular shop-floor presence.

Culture & Benefits

• Culture of continuous quality improvement and operational compliance.
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage.
• Life insurance, disability coverage, and a 401(k) with company contribution.
• Wellness program.
• Full-time, at-will employment arrangement.