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The specification specialist is responsible to establish and to maintain analytical specification for products, raw materials and packaging components.
The incumbent must therefore : Know Health Canada regulations, ICH guidelines and various pharmacopoeias; Ensure the creation and revision of specifications;
Closely follow up on all its activities and communicate information in order to respect the committed timelines.
Responsibilities :
Specification Management
- Create and revise specifications
- Issues the official specification for approval by the signatories;
- Completes and submits Change Control
- Adjust specifications according to analytical methods, PMS product and regulations
- Exchange of information with Regulatory Affairs regarding limits and tests to be included (regulatory point of view);
- Writes supporting documents detailing the choice of tests and their limitations included in the specification.
- Evaluates the specifications of business partners
- Compares specifications issued by third parties to government and Pharmascience requirements;
Applies the regulations
- Masters ICH and Health Canada recommendations at the analytical level (via guidelines, clarifax and the regulatory affairs department) and stays up to date with regulatory requirements;
- Checks the evolution of Pharmacopoeias (USP, EP, BP, Pharmacopeial Forum and Pharmeuropa) and assesses the impacts of changes on projects.
Related Tasks
- Provides recommendations to improve processes;
- Participates in major corporate projects;
- Participates in the drafting and revision of SOPs;
- Participates in project meetings.
- Answer questions from customers, partners and colleagues about specifications.
- Write and review reports for elemental impurities
- Write and review reports for residual solvents
Skills, Knowledge and Abilities :
- Excellent interpersonal relationships;
- Exemplary character, committed and motivated by the mission of Pharmascience;
- Excellent problem-solving ability;
- Practical sense and strong results orientation;
- Collaboration and openness to decisions;
- Flexibility, organization and reprioritization in the face of tight deadlines, new needs or unexpected obstacles;
- Good management and planning skills;
- Excellent communication skills, bilingualism in French and English
- Sense of responsibility;
- Sense of innovation;
- Stress resistance;
- Knowledge of Microsoft tools;
- Knowledge of the guidelines of various authorities (FDA, ICH, TPD);
- Knowledge of pharmacopoeias (USP, BP, EP).