QC Chemist III

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Job Description

The QC Chemist III is an experienced individual contributor responsible for the planning, execution, review, and coordination of Quality Control activities supporting incoming materials and packaging components at Gilead Sciences Ireland UC (GSIUC), Cork.

The role requires sound knowledge of Quality Control systems, analytical methods, specifications, and procedures and includes complex or non-routine assignments requiring scientific judgment, problem solving, and review of relevant data and factors.

Key responsibilities include:

• Comply with applicable Quality Management System, SOP, cGMP, data integrity, regulatory, and Environmental, Health and Safety requirements.
• Perform and coordinate the receipt, sampling, testing, review, and documentation of incoming materials and primary and secondary packaging components in accordance with approved specifications, procedures, sampling plans, and pharmacopoeial requirements.
• Review analytical data and test results for accuracy, completeness, data integrity, and compliance, and maintain records in applicable systems, including GLIMS/LIMS, LES, GVault/QDMS, and SAP.
• Coordinate testing and review activities to support manufacturing priorities, material need-by dates, packaging plans, and the timely disposition and release of materials and components.
• Lead or coordinate investigations into OOS, OOT, atypical results, deviations, data discrepancies, method or equipment issues, and material or component nonconformances, including root-cause analysis, impact assessment, and CAPA support.
• Prepare, review, and revise controlled technical documentation, including SOPs, methods, specifications, monographs, datasheets, protocols, investigation reports, qualification reports, and laboratory records.
• Support the introduction of new materials, packaging components, suppliers, grades, and part numbers through change control, technical assessment, method verification, qualification testing, specification updates, and system configuration.
• Coordinate contracted testing activities with approved external laboratories, including sample shipment, documentation, result review, and compliance with quality agreements.
• Provide technical guidance, training, and day-to-day support to colleagues, acting as a technical resource for assigned materials, components, methods, instruments, or laboratory processes.
• Maintain inspection readiness and support audits through accurate, complete, contemporaneous, and readily retrievable records.
• Drive continuous improvement and participate in cross-functional projects relating to materials, packaging components, analytical methods, laboratory systems, compliance, and operational excellence.
• Promptly escalate safety, quality, compliance, testing, and delivery risks, and collaborate effectively with relevant internal and external stakeholders.

Education & Experience

• Bachelor’s or Master's degree in Chemistry or a related scientific discipline with years of relevant experience.
• Pharmaceutical or biopharmaceutical industry experience preferred.
• Experience in GMP testing of materials or packaging components, analytical data review, laboratory investigations, technical documentation, and controlled laboratory systems is preferred.

Key Skills

• Strong knowledge of cGMP, data integrity, regulatory requirements, and applicable pharmacopoeias.
• Experience in material and packaging-component sampling, testing, documentation, disposition, and release support.
• Knowledge of relevant analytical techniques and instrumentation, including HPLC/UPLC; experience with FTIR, Raman, NIR, UV, GC, Karl Fischer, or packaging inspection is advantageous.
• Strong analytical data review, investigation, root-cause analysis, problem-solving, and technical-writing skills.
• Ability to work independently, manage competing priorities, and collaborate effectively across functions.

Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO)

It is the policy of Gilead Sciences, Inc. and its subsidiaries and affiliates (collectively "Gilead" or the "Company") to recruit select and employ the most qualified persons available for positions throughout the Company. Except if otherwise provided by applicable law, all employment actions relating to issues such as compensation, benefits, transfers, layoffs, returns from layoffs, company-sponsored training, education assistance, social and recreational programs are administered on a non-discriminatory basis (i.e. without regard to protected characteristics or prohibited grounds, which may include an individual’s gender, race, color, national origin, ancestry, religion, creed, physical or mental disability, marital status, sexual orientation, medical condition, veteran status, and age, unless such protection is prohibited by federal, state, municipal, provincial, local or other applicable laws). Gilead also prohibits discrimination based on any other characteristics protected by applicable laws.

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