Director, Quality Assurance

Performing critical work that impacts our industry and our world's health while problem-solving and innovating in the field - that is what a Director of Quality Assurance at KCAS Bio gets to do every day.

If that gets you excited, too, then maybe working as a Director of QA at KCAS Bio is the role for you.

When you work as a Director of Quality Assurance at KCAS Bio, you have the opportunity to further our mission at the core by managing one or more QA departments or groups staffed by professional employees performing quality assurance functions and interacting with executive management, clients, and regulatory agencies as needed regarding quality systems, audits, and inspections.

Maintaining a high level of professional expertise and leading regulatory inspections during FDA and critical client audits.

Oversee the quality management system maintained at KCAS Bio.

Provide expertise and guidance to all departments for interpreting and implementing health agency regulatory requirements.

Responsible for meeting department goals and objectives.

Serve as a member of the Senior Leadership Team.
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In this role, we will rely on you to:


* Assure Quality systems are designed and performing to meet industry, regulatory and executive management requirements.


* Initiate employee hire, promotion, discharge, or transfer.


* Participate in the selection process for subordinate personnel including determining recruiting criteria, interviewing, and performing reference checks.


* Perform annual performance evaluations for direct reports.


* Require and monitor training for subordinates to develop them to their potential.


* Effectively use delegation to develop subordinates.


* Perform career planning for subordinates.


* Provide encouragement and positive reinforcement to subordinates; require subordinate leadership staff to do the same.


* Participate in the development of short and long-range goals and objectives, implement and attain short and long-range goals and objectives, and assure that year-end goals are attained.


* Assure that all departmental management staff are working in concert with each other.


* Coordinate activities of the department with related activities of other departments, to ensure efficiency and economy.


* Understand, communicate and cascade communication from Executive management.


* Be knowledgeable of site departmental budget and will monitor and analyze cost against budget.


* Overall responsibility for the Quality Assurance operation, compliance and site department goals including budget management.


* Interact with clients relating to quality audits, respond to client audit reports, and understand client needs/expectations.


* Complete client QA questionnaires and respective QA-assigned sections of RFIs.


* Forecast, recommend and justify strategies to accommodate growth when needed (space, equipment, staffing).


* Establish policies and procedures t...