Quality Assurance Officer Needed At KPI
Apply Before: Friday, 19th July, 2025
Job Overview
Kampala Pharmaceutical Industries is seeking to employ a competent Quality Assurance Officer to join their Quality Assurance Team. Reports to the Quality Assurance Manager.
| Field | Details |
|---|---|
| Company | Kampala Pharmaceutical Industries |
| Work Setting | On-site |
| Location | Ntinda Uganda |
| Employment Type | Full-time |
| Salary | Attractive |
| Number Of Vacancies | 01 |
| Apply Before | 19th July, 2025 |
| Job Category | Quality Assurance |
| Level of Education | Check Quaification section for details |
| Experience | Check Details |
Job Details
Responsibilities and Roles
• Monitoring compliance with cGMP requirements by Inspecting all manufacturing areas, Equipment and systems daily, to ensure that they comply with cGMP in all aspects of suitability of manufacturing medicines.
• Monitor and ensure that there is proper and correct documentation of all production activities and records are updated online.
• Review BMRs online to verify that all production stages have been completed in accordance with SOPs and all signatures and dates of persons performing and checking activities are in place.
• Monitoring and controlling of the manufacturing environment including housekeeping practices which include personal hygiene and cleanliness of manufacturing premises.
• Prepare Qualification Protocols, Perform Equipment Qualification (DQ/IQ/OQ/PQ/RQ) and approve or reject equipment/ machinery based on qualification processes.
• Prepare Process Validation Protocols, Perform Process Validation and approve or reject processes based on Process Validation Reports.
• Carrying out In-process Quality Control Checks like friability, uniformity of mass, disintegration tests, moisture content, hardness, and thickness tests of all products.
• Monitoring and ensuring that the environmental conditions like temperature, pressure and relative humidity are within specifications hence don’t affect the quality of the products.
• Reviewing completed Batching Manufacturing Records: This includes In-process Quality control records and laboratory batch testing records for completeness.
• Identifying, and investigation of deviations in manufacturing processes.
• Document control and record keeping: This includes filing, archiving, and maintaining a robust documentation system for all GMP documents.
• Writing and maintaining SOPs: This includes writing and maintaining standard operating procedures (SOPs) for the QA department and other departments.
• Preparation, Issuance and Distribution of controlled documents: This includes issuing, stamping, and distributing controlled documents, such as approved procedures, specifications, and protocols.
• Preparing manufacturing records: This includes preparing batch manufacturing records (BMRs) and batch packaging records (BPRs) for production. It also involves the Issuance of different Products batches manufacturing records from the master batch records according to the production plan, allocating unique numbers and handing them over to production department.
Qualifications
· Bachelor of Science Technology- chemistry/ BSc. Chemical Engineering / BSc. Industrial chemistry or BSc. Pharmaceutical sciences, Bachelor of Pharmacy or any related course.
Experience
· At least 2 years’ experience in QA / QC Operations. Experience in pharmaceutical manufacturing environments will be an added advantage
Personal Competencies
- Effective Communicator
- Team Work
- Ability to work under minimal supervision
- Hard working
- Reliable
Application Procedure
All interested and competent applications should send a copy of their Cvs, Academic Documents and application letter to the Human Resource Manager at hr@kpi.co.ug.
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