Quality Assurance Assistant (m/f/d)

Pessin, Germany

Quality Assurance Support for Sterile Medical Devices

  • Support QA oversight of sterile medical device manufacturing, packaging, labelling, storage, and release-related activities in accordance with approved SOPs, quality requirements, and technical documentation.
  • Review production, packaging, sterilization, environmental monitoring, cleaning, and traceability records for completeness, accuracy, legibility, and compliance prior to QA approval or product release, as delegated.
  • Verify that sterile handling, cleanroom qualification, segregation, labelling, and contamination control practices are consistently followed.
  • Promptly escalate quality risks, nonconformities, deviations, or potential compliance issues to the appropriate QA or operational stakeholders.
  • Assist with the initiation, documentation, tracking, investigation, and closure of deviations, complaints, CAPAs, and change controls in accordance with Serana’s Quality Management System.
  • Support QA checks for incoming materials, components, packaging materials, supplier documentation, and approved supplier requirements.
  • Maintain accurate, contemporaneous, attributable, legible, complete, and reliable GMP/GDP records.
  • Support validation activities, internal and external audits, and regulatory affairs documentation, as required.
  • Verify correct product and material identification, status labelling, storage conditions, segregation, lot/batch traceability, and UDI or labelling-related information where applicable.

Quality Management System, Documentation & Data Integrity

  • Assist in the preparation, review, distribution, filing, and archiving of controlled documents, forms, records, specifications, and quality procedures within the QMS.
  • Support the maintenance of accurate and up-to-date quality documentation in accordance with applicable GMP/GDP, ISO 13485, and internal requirements.
  • Ensure documentation practices comply with data integrity principles, including accuracy, completeness, traceability, contemporaneous recording, and proper correction of records.
  • Support continuous improvement of documentation workflows, record management, and QMS-related administrative processes.

Skills, Qualifications & Certifications Required

  • Bachelor’s degree in Life Sciences, such as pharmaceutical sciences, biotechnology, chemistry, biology, or a related discipline.
  • Prior experience in Quality Assurance, Quality Control, sterile production, cleanroom operations, sterilization, packaging, or medical device manufacturing is preferred.
  • Strong theoretical knowledge may be considered in place of prior experience, particularly within an ISO 13485, GMP, or similarly regulated environment.
  • Basic understanding of sterile medical device QMS requirements, contamination control, cleanroom principles, CAPA, change control, documentation practices, and risk management.
  • Good command of both English and German, written and spoken.
  • Strong attention to detail, structured working style, and ability to follow procedures accurately.
  • Good communication skills and the ability to escalate quality or compliance concerns in a timely and professional manner.