Staff Pharmacist in Kennett Square, PA

A specialty compounding pharmacy is seeking a Senior Quality Assurance Specialist for a 13-week contract to hire assignment in Kennett Square, Pennsylvania. This role offers the opportunity to maintain and elevate quality standards across sterile and non-sterile compounding, cleanroom operations, dispensing, fulfillment, and packaging activities.

Key Responsibilities:

• Maintain an active quality presence throughout all pharmacy operations, including compounding and packaging.
• Conduct routine floor observations to ensure practices align with SOPs, training, and quality controls.
• Identify procedural drift, documentation gaps, inconsistent practices, and potential patient safety risks.
• Provide real-time quality guidance and coaching to pharmacists, technicians, supervisors, and operational teams.
• Lead and support investigations, deviations, root-cause analysis, CAPAs, risk assessments, and change controls.
• Identify recurring quality issues and recommend sustainable corrective actions.
• Support continuous improvement initiatives and inspection readiness.
• Collaborate closely with Operations, Compliance, Training, and Quality leadership.
• Escalate significant quality concerns and pause activities temporarily when required for evaluation.

Qualifications and Desired Experience:

• Experience in pharmaceutical quality, sterile drug production, pharmaceutical operations, or a high-volume compounding pharmacy environment.
• Strong hands-on experience with deviations, investigations, CAPA, root-cause analysis, and Quality Management Systems (QMS).
• Working knowledge of sterile compounding and applicable regulatory and quality requirements.
• Experience in 503A compounding pharmacies, 503B outsourcing facilities, or sterile pharmaceutical manufacturing is highly desirable.
• Familiarity with USP standards, state Board of Pharmacy rules, and federal regulations.
• Bachelors degree in pharmacy, pharmaceutical sciences, chemistry, microbiology, biology, engineering, quality, or related field preferred; equivalent experience considered.

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday, day shift (typically 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. or similar).
• Hybrid schedule discussed during the interview; consistent weekly remote schedule required.

This contract to hire role offers an excellent platform to apply your quality expertise in a specialized pharmacy setting. Candidates with a proactive approach to quality assurance and a passion for patient safety are encouraged to apply. Take the next step in your pharmaceutical quality career today.