Quality Assurance Specialist (Cellular Agriculture, Novel Foods)

The Opportunity

Esco Lifesciences Group is Singapore's most globalized life sciences company, with annual revenues close to SGD 200M and global operations in over 42 locations and 26 direct countries across North America, Europe, Asia, Oceania.

Esco Aster Pte Ltd is an affiliate of Esco Lifesciences Group and was first incorporated in 2017.

Esco Aster is a contract research development and manufacturing organization founded and deeply rooted by scientists enabling fellow scientists to translate their bench work into commercially available products at affordable prices.

Our scientific work is in emerging and frontier biology utilizing cells as a final product or deriving products from cells which often we use cells as the factory to derive our target product.

Our first commercial breakthrough success is Esco Aster is commercially first in class being first in the world to be certified for cultivated/cell-based meat to FSSC 22000 and by a competent food regulatory body.

We are first in the region to operate an end-to-end integrated full cell line creation/immortalization or engineered cell line, cell culture process development, analytical development for stem cells and exosomes with full cGMP Capabilities from Drug Substance and small-scale fill & finish for final Cell Therapy Product.

The work we do creates a remarkable and lasting impact on our world. We offer you an opportunity to be part of this exciting journey to own your career and firsthand exposure to new emerging modalities supporting translational sciences.

Join us as we redefine BioSolutions for One World and One Health for the current and future generations to come.

Esco Aster.

One World Biosolutions for One Health.

Job Responsibilities

. Execute the FSMS to support the batch release and auditing, to ensure each batch of product has been manufactured, tested and approved for release in compliance with the applicable laws and regulations in force in the country of manufacture and applicable market authorizations.

. Review manufacturing batch records, data forms, protocol, reports and maintenance of pre-requisite programs.

. Administer, review and follow-up with Deviations and Investigations and correspondence Corrective and Preventive Action (CAPAs).

. Trend and report quality systems related information (deviations, investigations, CAPAs.

. Prepare and compile statistical quality data for client updates and project status reports on site's quality performance.

. Assist to track quality system related to Deviations and Investigations and correspondence Corrective and Preventive Action (CAPAs).

. Control access to restricted and confidential documents.

. Ensure all team members adhere to code of practice in food hygiene and cleanroom behaviours by conducting inspection and training.

. Liaise with the external laboratory to fulfil the food quality and safety testing requirements for novel food.

. Undertake tasks assigned by leaders as and when appropriate.

Requirements

. Diploma in relevant discipline.

. Minimum 1- 3 years of Quality Assurance / Quality Control work experience in either:

. food manufacturing industry preferably fermentation/meat related processes

. Livestock farming.

. Familiar and keeping up to date with current GMP/Singapore Food Regulations, with flexibility to change as needed due to new regulatory requirements and technologies.

. Familiar with HACCP and other food safety standards such as ISO22000.

. Preferably possess certificate in Food Safety Level 3.

. Experience with regulatory requirements by Singapore Food Agency and/or US FDA / USDA.

. Proficient in MS Office Suite (Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Excel).

. Able to work independently, self-starter, self-motivated and task oriented.

. Good communication skills and able to openly communicate and escalate any relevant issues.

. Strong team player, develop positive relationship with a strong set of interpersonal skills.

. Ability to maintain discipline of team members without conflict.

. Experience in Cellular Agriculture/novel food/animal husbandry would be an advantage.

. Be willing to take on expanded role to set up workflow/processes for new projects.

Interested candidates, please submit a Cover Letter and CV to [Confidential Information].