Quality Inspector

This is where you save and sustain lives

At Baxter, we are deeply connected by our mission. No matter your role at Baxter, your work makes a positive impact on people around the world. You’ll feel a sense of purpose throughout the organization, as we know our work improves outcomes for millions of patients.

Baxter’s products and therapies are found in almost every hospital worldwide, in clinics and in the home. For over 85 years, we have pioneered significant medical innovations that transform healthcare.

Together, we create a place where we are happy, successful and inspire each other. This is where you can do your best work.

Join us at the intersection of saving and sustaining lives— where your purpose accelerates our mission.

Your role at Baxter:

As a member of the St. Paul Quality team, Quality Inspector plays an instrumental role in ensuring we manufacture safe and effective devices for our patients. In this role your primary responsibility will be endorsing process and product quality, efficacy, and safety through the routine assessment of plant operations and finished products. You will also be responsible for ensuring adherence to the regulatory and procedural requirements that govern those operations and products. In many instances the Quality Inspector is the last set of eyes ensuring our process has been followed correctly and that documentation is accurate and reliable.

Your team:

When you join the Quality team you belong to a group that never shies away from a challenge and truly believes that teamwork makes jobs great. Motivated by work that is never the same from one day to the next, this team powers through internal processes to create products that they deeply believe in.

Individuals within the quality organization are encouraged to think strategically about how to best-solve any issues at hand. Baxter remains positive, confident, and resilient as it approaches new challenges and strives to create the best possible product for the client, always.

If you are a natural leader who uses critical thinking to reach outside the box to find creative solutions to problems and you are relentlessly committed to quality over quantity, then this is the team for you!

What you’ll be doing:

• Monitor product quality through the performance of required visual and functional testing. Maintain a working knowledge of statistically based Sampling Plans and their applications.
• Promote process control through activities in support of equipment and process validations. These activities are primarily product checks that support or refute validation studies.
• Monitor processes through the implementation of World Class Manufacturing Strategies, including Statistical Process Control (SPC). Responsible for generating and interpreting SPC control charts.
• Ensure the accuracy of measuring and testing equipment through the performance of calibrations.
• Perform periodic audits of manufacturing practices and local procedures.
• Procedural changes in response to these audits may be initiated and coordinated by the QA inspector.
• Support the corrective and preventive action program by assisting with expectation situations.
• Responsible for gathering, analyzing, summarizing, and distributing process relevant data.
• Promote continuous improvement through participation (i.e. team leader / facilitator or major contributor) in Process Management Team program.
• Handle customer complaints in a timely manner. This includes sample analysis, batch record review, historical trend reviews, root cause identification, and official documentation of findings.
• Must be able to effectively communicate across all departments and levels of management.

What you’ll bring:

Required

• High School diploma with 0+ years related experience. 1+ year of experience preferred
• Knowledge of cGMP documentation and FDA requirements.
• Demonstrated attention to details and accuracy.
• Strong communication skills.

Preferred

• Experience in a pharmaceutical or Biotech industry.
• General knowledge of quarantine and warehouse operation.
• Knowledge of aseptic techniques.
• May be required to work flexible hours and overtime on short notice.

We understand compensation is an important factor as you consider the next step in your career. At Baxter, we are committed to equitable pay for all our employees, and we strive to be more transparent with our pay practices. To that end, this position has a base salary range of $33,000 to $120,000, plus an annual incentive bonus. The above range represents the expected base salary range for this position. The actual salary may vary based upon several factors including, but not limited to, relevant skills/experience, time in the role, business line, and geographic/office location.

The successful candidate for this job may be required to verify that he or she has been vaccinated against COVID-19, subject to reasonable accommodations for individuals with medical conditions or religious beliefs that prevent vaccination, and in accordance with applicable law.

Equal Employment Opportunity

Baxter is an equal opportunity employer. Baxter evaluates qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, protected veteran status, disability/handicap status or any other legally protected characteristic.

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