Quality Site Head, Oceanside
Genentech · Oceanside, CA
- Level
- Specialist
- Team
- Quality
- Base pay
- $201k–$374k
- Travel
- 20%
- Degree
- Required
- Experience asked
- 15+ years
- Industry
- Pharma & life sciences
- Posted
- 3 days ago
The role in 30 seconds
A specialist quality role at Genentech (pharma & life sciences) in Oceanside, CA.
- They ask for
- 15+ years · degree required
- Tools it names
- Lean, Value stream mapping, FDA / GMP
- Base pay
- $201k–$374k
- Day to day
- about 20% travel
Read from the posting. The full description is below.
From the plant jobs report · week of November 2, 2026
Quality Engineer roles in California: typical posted base $100k–$153k. This one lists $201k–$374k.
Median of the low and high ends of 117 live postings that list pay, out of 227 quality engineer openings in California, read from manufacturers' own careers sites.
California plant jobs report →Pay by team and state →What moves pay →
How this role compares
Against 226 other live quality postings in California.
- Base pay
- About 131% above similar roles
- Experience asked
- More than usual (15+ vs 5+)
Typical $100k–$149k, from 113 postings that list pay.
Similar roles usually ask 5+ years.
Skills these teams ask for most
- Root cause 75%
- FMEA 49%
- Supplier quality 44%
- Validation (IQ/OQ/PQ) 42%
- AS9100 41%
- ISO 9001 35%
✓ = this posting asks for it too. % = share of similar postings that mention it.
Stands out: this posting asks for Value stream mapping, which few similar roles mention. If you have it, lead with it.
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- What does a normal week look like on your team?
- Which standards drive the work here: ISO 13485, IATF 16949, AS9100?
- How much of the job is customer complaints versus prevention?
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Full description from GenentechAs posted on their careers site.ShowHide
Who you are
- ✓You hold a Bachelor's degree in pharmaceutical, life sciences, physical sciences, or engineering with 15+ years of relevant bio/pharmaceutical experience in GMP regulated environments in Quality and preferably also manufacturing.
- ✓You possess significant professional experience in Quality Assurance/Control, including cross-functional team management and leadership
- ✓You have strong project management skills
- ✓You have extensive professional experience with operations management in a facility that produces antibodies and biologics
- ✓You have extensive knowledge of safety, quality systems and quality assurance concepts and systems, including the application of cGMPs.
- ✓You have strong creative leadership skills, ability to build forward looking perspectives and remove barriers. Ability to inspire, adopt, coach and apply lean and agile ways of working. A consistent track record to perform against tight timelines in a highly complex and ambiguous environment. Expertise and experience in organizational change management and expertise in delivering a long-term vision is welcome
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The Position
Pharma Technical Operations (PT) is responsible for managing all aspects of end-to-end drug substance and drug product manufacturing and supply. From the raw material to the final medicine, we contribute to deliver Roche’s ground-breaking therapies to more than 120 million patients around the world. We make our medicines at internal and external sites around the world and coordinate all aspects of production of Roche medicines in all disease areas and dosage forms.
This opportunity is located at Genentech’s Oceanside campus, a dedicated biologics drug substance manufacturing site specializing in commercial-scale production and rapid technology transfer. Utilizing dual stainless steel and state-of-the-art single-use manufacturing value streams, Oceanside plays a vital role in delivering life-saving therapies across Roche's commercial and clinical portfolio.
The Opportunity
As the Quality Site Head you are accountable for the design and qualification of our facility’s operations, including strategic workforce planning, hiring the respective personnel, setting up the organization, all relevant processes and documentation (e.g. SOPs). You are responsible for project management activities, IT systems and definition of the processes in compliance with GMP/Quality requirements. You will identify timeline risks or bottlenecks for the project or future site operations and take appropriate actions. You will work closely with all the key areas to achieve ambitious goals in terms of on time, on cost and on scope delivery.
You will work closely with the Site Head and other members of the Site Leadership team to shape excellence in operations and the strategy of the site. You are responsible for all Quality Operations affiliated with Quality Assurance and Quality Control business units for the Oceanside site and ensure that all processes and assets at the site are fully compliant with internal and external guidelines and regulations. You ensure effective use of resources and control of expenses to achieve maximum productivity; you develop and sustain robust scalable business processes and adjust and continuously improve them as needed. You are responsible for the achievement of complex and significant objectives through leadership and direction of significant multidimensional resources. You will build and maintain strong partnerships with the other departments on site within and beyond the Quality organisation to ensure site and department goals are achieved. You will also closely collaborate with other internal site Quality organisations and the global Quality organisation to support the network.
Involves travel up to 20%.
Your
include the following
- •You will drive timely project execution through strategic thinking, technical and entrepreneurial understanding
- •You will foster a strong mindset for safety, quality and compliance
- •You will take purposeful and impactful decisions
- •You will demonstrate disciplinary and professional leadership promotion and deployment of personnel including the assurance of adequate initial and ongoing training
- •You will carry out employee appraisal reviews including performance assessment and salary responsibility
- •You will define goals with employees and evaluate the achievement of goals. You will support the development of employees
Preferred
- +You have an advanced degree (Masters or PhD)
- +You have international experience at multiple sites/locations
This position also qualifies for the benefits detailed in this link .
