🌍 Now Hiring: Visual Inspection Consultant – Sterile Injectables (Waterford, Ireland | Onsite)
Can you look at a defect library and see straight away where the gaps are? EFOR Group, a trusted Life Sciences consulting partner, is looking for an experienced Visual Inspection (VI) Consultant to join a global pharmaceutical manufacturer in Waterford. The role is part of a network-wide initiative to strengthen and standardise visual inspection of parenteral products. You’ll be the site’s VI expert, bringing practices, procedures and rationales in line with corporate standards.
What you’ll do:
- Review the site’s manual, semi-automated and automated visual inspection practices against corporate standards
- Update site and corporate VI SOPs and write technical rationales to GxP standards
- Support defect library management, AQL approaches and inspector qualification programmes
- Work closely with the site’s Quality and Production teams to follow up action plans
- Act as a subject-matter expert on particle management
- Influence and guide stakeholders to embed lasting improvements in VI practice
Your background:
- Degree in Science or Engineering
- 5+ years in visual inspection within parenteral (sterile/injectable) manufacturing
- Hands-on experience with manual, semi-automated and/or automated inspection
- Strong knowledge of USP <790>/<1790>, Ph. Eur. 2.9.20 and EU GMP Annex 1 expectations
- Proven ownership of VI SOPs, defect libraries, AQL sampling and inspector qualification
- Excellent technical writer, able to produce clear, defensible GxP rationales
- Autonomous on site and confident influencing Production and QA
Why EFOR Group?
EFOR brings together more than 3,200 experts in 18 countries, delivering technical, quality and engineering excellence across the full Life Sciences product lifecycle. Join a team making sure every vial and syringe that reaches a patient meets the highest standard.
🌐 Location: Waterford, Ireland (fully onsite)
📅 Contract: 12 months
🔗 Ready to set the standard for what passes inspection?
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