Associate Director-Quality Assurance-Gajraula

JOB DESCRIPTION

Jubilant Bhartia Group

Jubilant Bhartia Group is a global conglomerate founded by Mr. Shyam S Bhartia and Mr. Hari S Bhartia with strong presence in diverse sectors like Pharmaceuticals, Contract Research and Development Services, Proprietary Novel Drugs, Life Science Ingredients, Agri Products, Performance Polymers, Food Service (QSR), Food, Auto, Consulting in Aerospace and Oilfield Services. Jubilant Bhartia Group has four flagships Companies- Jubilant Pharmova Limited, Jubilant Ingrevia Limited, Jubilant FoodWorks Limited and Jubilant Industries Limited. Currently the group has a global workforce of around 43,000 employees.

About Jubilant Ingrevia Limited

Jubilant Ingrevia is now a member of the elite Global Lighthouse Network (GLN) of the World Economic Forum (WEF)

Celebrating our Culture and People.

We are proud to be a Great Place to Work certified

Jubilant Ingrevia history goes back to 1978 with the incorporation of VAM Organics Limited, which later became Jubilant Organosys and then Jubilant Life Sciences and now demerged to an independent entity as Jubilant Ingrevia Limited, which is listed in both the stock exchanges of India. Over the years, company has developed global capacities and leadership in chosen business segments.

Ingrevia is born out of a union of 'Ingredients' and 'Life' ('Vie' in French). Jubilant Ingrevia Limited is committed to offering high-quality and innovative life science ingredients to enrich all forms of life.

Jubilant Ingrevia, a global integrated Life Science products and Innovative Solutions provider serving, Pharmaceutical, Nutrition, Agrochemical, Consumer and Industrial customers with our customised products and solutions that are innovative, cost-effective and conforming to excellent quality standards.

Jubilant Ingrevia Limited offers a broad portfolio of high-quality ingredients that find application in a wide range of industries. Jubilant Ingrevia's portfolio also extends to custom development and manufacturing for pharmaceutical and agrochemical customers on an exclusive basis.

Our business is split across 3 business verticals, with global leadership across our key product lines.

Speciality Chemicals: The Specialty Chemical business of Jubilant Ingrevia manufactures Pyridine, Picolines and its forward integration derivatives, which finds application in agrochemicals, pharmaceuticals, dyes, solvents, metal finishes, fine chemicals, semiconductors etc.

We have also launched new platform of Diketene & its value-added derivatives for multiple industry use. We are an established 'partner of choice' in CDMO, with more investment plans in GMP & Non-GMP multi-product facilities for Pharma, Agro and Semi-conductor customers.

Chemical Intermediates: The Chemical Intermediates business has acetic anhydride and value added anhydrides and aldehydes catering to various industries.

Nutrition & Health Solutions: The Nutrition & Heath Solutions business unit offers B3 & Picolinates (Chromium & Zinc) which are fully backward integrated. Our ingredients find application in animal nutrition, human nutrition, personal care, etc. We provide high-quality feed & food additives having application in poultry, dairy, aqua & pet food industry. In Human Nutrition & Health Solutions, we offer food ingredients & premix solutions to nutrition.

Jubilant Ingrevia Limited is supported by five state-of-the-art manufacturing facilities in India. We practice world-class manufacturing processes in our day-to-day operations, assuring our customers with unmatched quality and timely delivery of products through innovations and cutting-edge technology. Transforming Manufacturing for Operational Excellence & Sustainability with "zero tolerance to any non-compliance" is the core focus of Jubilant Ingrevia Manufacturing.

We have 5 world-class manufacturing facilities i.e. One in UP at Gajraula, Two in Gujarat at Bharuch and Savli, Two in Maharashtra at Nira and Ambernath.

Environment Sustainability

The company is committed to environmental sustainability and supports green chemistry by prioritising the use of bio inputs in manufacturing. Jubilant is one of the world's largest producers of Acetaldehyde from the bio route.

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The Position

Organization: - Jubilant Ingrevia Ltd.

Designation: - Associate Director- Quality Assurance

Reporting to: - Vice President & Head- Quality & Regulatory Affairs

Location: - Gajraula, UP

Job Summary

As a Group Leader for Developmental Quality Assurance, you will lead quality systems across R&D and pilot stages, ensuring first-time-right, scalable product designs. Key responsibilities include experimental design, process development, technology transfer, lab and budget management, regulatory compliance, and advanced material characterization. You'll collaborate cross-functionally to close stage gates, support analytical needs, and drive timely, high-quality outcomes.

Key Responsibilities

• Overall responsible for developmental Quality Assurance function across the JVL- R&D & Development Quality of the new product, includes DQA & Lab – Analytical assurance.
• Setting –up a process for new products at R&D and Pilot stage to pass through a robust stage gate system and ensure right first-time quality of products are designed, which are commercially viable and scalable.
• Design right experiments, DOE, hypothesis study to conduct experiments with R&D and Technology team.
• Design right protocols for experiments, development of a process, study robustness, evaluate process performance between R&D to Pilot plant and site level
• Play key role in technology transfer from R&D to Pilot plant and Site level, share right documents and ensure QA – tech transfer to sites.
• Management of overall DQA & Kilo Lab budget – Capex, opex, hiring and retention of talent
• Ensure compliance of SOPs, Policies, standard, guideline, regulatory and customer requirement
• In-depth knowledge of crystallization principles, techniques, and equipment, including batch and continuous crystallization methods.
• Study and improve the material flowability and free-flow characteristics of API / ingredients, powders, Supplement
• Set-up a system to Analyse and enhance the bulk density, compressibility, and particle shape, particle size of materials, angle of repose.
• Implement strategies for particle size engineering, including micronization, granulation, and agglomeration.
• Design to Conduct advanced physical characterization of APIs, ingredients, including particle size distribution, morphology, porosity, and surface area analysis.
• Set-up a process to utilize techniques like SEM, TEM, XRD, DLS, and laser diffraction for material evaluation.
• Expert in defining and setting process conditions, including RH for Hygroscopic materials handling, their packing configuration and storage conditions to avoid lumping and agglomeration issues.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, including ARD, (Analytical/QC /instruments knowledge) with the ability to analyse complex data and identify process optimization opportunities.
• Ensure smooth technology transfer of crystallization and powder processing technologies
• Coordinate with Business, Technology absorption cell, site QA and internal CFTs to ensure smooth functioning, closing of stage gate process in the system timely, review and sign-off of tech-pack and release timely to site.
• Strong project management skills, with the ability to prioritize tasks, manage timelines, and deliver results under tight deadlines.
• Monthly, weekly, and periodic DQA reports generation and review with management and apprise the quality related issues in new projects with areas of improvement.

The Person

Qualifications & Experience

• M. Sc /M.Pharma– Chemistry
• 16-24 Years of experience in API/Intermediate/Fine chemical Industry.
• Sound knowledge of Fine chemical, DQA is must with good knowledge of product development at R&D stage.

Personal Characteristics

• Openness and Transparency
• Willingness to learn & grow, dynamic, self- driver
• Work towards excellence in regulatory filing, & compliance across the regions.
• Self-Motivated and work towards achievement of organizational goals

Independent Decision Making

Development Quality decisions, Stage gate process clearance, tech-transfer , AMT transfer to sites, pilot plant – batch execution , Quality assurance in all new and developmental projects and ensure continued compliance.

What's on Offer:

• Opportunity to work with the only Indian company in Global Lighthouse Network under World Economic Forum in the chemical sector.
• Competitive salary and benefits package.
• Career growth opportunities in a rapidly evolving industry

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Jubilant is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, colour, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, political affiliation, race, ethnicity, religion or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances.

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