Job Description Exciting Permanent Full-Time role with an innovative global Animal Health business. Your opportunity to lead and drive the Quality and Continuous Improvement culture within the business. Serve the highest standard of supplying "Zero Defect Product" to the customers.

Bring your innovative streak, curiosity, and learning spirit into a career of purpose and personal growth. Our Animal Health division is a trusted global leader in veterinary medicine, dedicated to the health and well-being of animals. We are a global team of professionals working together to make a positive difference in animal care and the world's food supply, and we have a deep sense of responsibility toward our customers, consumers, animals, society, and our planet.

We offer one of our industry's most innovative products, services, and technologies to prevent, treat, and control diseases across all major farm and companion animal species. Our Quality Assurance group ensures every single material inside our products is manufactured, processed, tested, packaged, stored and distributed aligned with our incredibly high standards of quality and meets all regulatory requirements. Partnering across our internal manufacturing facilities, external contract manufacturers and suppliers we create an interdependent global manufacturing network committed to deliver a compliant, reliable supply to customers and patients on time, every time, across the globe.

Role Overview: The Quality Control (QC) Manager is responsible for ensuring that quality control testing is completed to meet planned production requirements and that the testing programme and inwards material release process meets the requirements of defined regulations, compendia, registered methods and specifications. Quality Control (QC) test results form part of the basis for product release. Laboratory management is segregated into chemistry testing, release of inwards goods (raw materials, third party manufactured products, packaging and labels), external chemical testing (QC contract laboratories), immunology and microbiological testing; sterile support services (QC Media Kitchen); and external microbiological and large animal testing (QC contract laboratories).

What will you do: The QC group functions within the Quality Operations at Upper Hutt. The department's scope covers the chemical, immunological and microbiological testing aspect of in-process samples, final products, release of inwards materials and third party manufactured finished products. This requires routine testing within agreed time schedules as well as non-routine testing work (e.

g. reagent validation, changes to primary packaging etc.).

Technical evaluation of routine test results is expected along with evaluation and participation in test validation projects. The QC Manager is expected to lead or be an integral member of these projects. In this role , you will be responsible to ensure that: Systems are in place to ensure planned testing is complete.