
Senior QA Specialist - CSV
Johnson & Johnson MedTech · Wilson, NC
- Level
- Senior
- Team
- Quality
- Degree
- Required
- Experience asked
- 6+ years
- Industry
- Medical devices
- Posted
- Yesterday
The role in 30 seconds
A senior quality role at Johnson & Johnson MedTech (medical devices) in Wilson, NC.
- They ask for
- 6+ years · degree required
- Tools it names
- FDA / GMP, Validation (IQ/OQ/PQ), PLC, Automation, MES
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From the plant jobs report · week of November 2, 2026
Quality Engineer roles in North Carolina: typical posted base $97k–$143k.
Median of the low and high ends of 16 live postings that list pay, out of 44 quality engineer openings in North Carolina, read from manufacturers' own careers sites.
North Carolina plant jobs report →Pay by team and state →What moves pay →
How this role compares
Against 43 other live quality postings in North Carolina.
- Base pay
- Not listed in this posting
- Experience asked
- More than usual (6+ vs 5+)
Typical $96k–$126k, from 15 postings that list pay.
Similar roles usually ask 5+ years.
Skills these teams ask for most
- Root cause 61%
- ✓ Validation (IQ/OQ/PQ) 41%
- New product launch 39%
- Supplier quality 39%
- FMEA 36%
- PPAP 36%
✓ = this posting asks for it too. % = share of similar postings that mention it.
Stands out: this posting asks for PLC, MES, which few similar roles mention. If you have it, lead with it.
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This plant: Johnson & Johnson MedTech in Wilson
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Full description from Johnson & Johnson MedTechAs posted on their careers site.ShowHide
Key Responsibilities
- ◆Program build: Author, implement, and maintain site CSV and data integrity procedures; contribute to the Validation Master Plan, computerized system inventory, and GxP/criticality assessments.
- ◆Project QA oversight: Represent Quality Assurance on qualification teams across requirements, design review, construction, commissioning, qualification, and implementation to ensure quality, regulatory, engineering, safety, and process
requirements
are met for technologies being established at our greenfield site (including AI-enabled inspection, ASRS, AMRs, digital validation, and connected manufacturing systems). Provide consulting to the project management team to ensure appropriate quality systems are in place for new systems.
- ✓Risk-based validation: Apply GAMP 5 (2nd Edition) critical thinking, ICH Q9(R1), and ASTM E2500 principles to integrate commissioning and qualification, leverage supplier documentation and FAT/SAT evidence, and right-size testing based on risk to patient safety, product quality, and data integrity.
- ✓Lifecycle deliverables: Review and approve URS, FRS, HDS, SDS, configuration specifications, Unit Integration Testing, FAT, SAT, IQ, OQ, PQ, risk assessments,
Requirements
Traceability Matrix, data integrity assessments, data/process flow diagrams, supplier assessments, interface and integration testing, code reviews, deviations, validation master plans, and validation summary reports, as needed.
- ✓Traceability and release: Ensure all
requirements
are properly traced, tested, and qualified across the project lifecycle, and that facilities, utilities, and systems are properly released for use in GMP manufacturing.
- ✓Deviations and exceptions: Ensure all deviations and test exceptions are properly documented, evaluated, approved, and closed across project testing phases; lead or support investigations and CAPAs.
- ✓Data integrity and cybersecurity: Establish and oversee audit trail review, access management, backup/restore, archiving, and data lifecycle controls in accordance with 21 CFR Part 11, EU GMP Annex 11, and ISA/IEC 62443 (including OT/IT network segmentation).
- ✓Advanced and AI-enabled technologies: Provide QA oversight of AI/ML-enabled inspection systems, including training and test data governance, performance metrics, static (locked) models, and model change control, as well as automated visual inspection aligned with USP / .
- ✓Annex 1 alignment: Ensure validation of EMS/PAS alarm and audit trail functionality, isolator decontamination cycle automation, and system data that supports the site Contamination Control Strategy.
- ✓MES and execution systems: Oversee qualification of MES/electronic batch records, including ISA-88 recipe management, review by exception, and ISA-95 integration across MES, ERP, LIMS, and automation layers; ensure alarm management practices align with ISA-18.2.
- ✓Supplier oversight: Assess and audit system integrators and platform suppliers (DCS/PLC, MES, LIMS, AVI, serialization) and cloud/SaaS providers, including quality agreements and service level expectations.
- ✓Change control: Evaluate the potential impact of process or system changes on product quality, and support upgrades, modifications, or changes to GxP system components from a quality, compliance, data integrity, and cybersecurity perspective.
- ✓Operational readiness: Lead the project-to-operations handover, including system ownership, periodic review, operational change control, and incident/problem management; ensure systems maintain their validated state through periodic review and revalidation as necessary.
- ✓Inspection readiness: Ensure systems and data are ready for pre-approval and pre-license inspections by FDA, EMA, and other regulators, including preparing system narratives and leading system demonstrations.
- ✓Escalation and continuous improvement: Report and escalate quality risks/issues to the Quality Leadership team; implement lessons learned and best practices from other internal and external projects.
- ✓Training and capability building: Train personnel in Computerized Systems Operations and Maintenance, and mentor team members to build CSV capability across the site organization.
Required
- ✓A Bachelor's degree in a scientific, engineering, or computer science discipline.
- ✓A minimum of 6 years’ relevant experience working within the biological and/or pharmaceutical industry, with substantial hands-on experience in computerized system validation or computerized system quality assurance.
- ✓Hands-on experience with QA oversight of CSV for automated manufacturing equipment and systems (PLC/DCS/SCADA/MES) and GMP laboratory systems (e.g., LIMS, CDS).
- ✓Strong working knowledge of 21 CFR Part 11, EU GMP Annex 11, GAMP 5 (2nd Edition), and data i
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Job Function
Quality
Job Sub Function
Quality Documentation
Job Category
Professional
All Job Posting Locations
Wilson, North Carolina, United States of America
Job Description
We are currently seeking a highly qualified individual to join our team as a Senior QA Specialist - CSV at our new Biotherapeutics Manufacturing facility in Wilson, North Carolina (BioNC).
