Associate Director, Cleaning Validation and Contamination Control Expert

Company: GlaxoSmithKline
Location: Rockville
Posted on: June 1, 2025

Job Description:

Site Name: USA - Maryland - Rockville
Posted Date: May 30 2025
As the Associate Director, Cleaning Validation and Contamination Control Expert, you will be the primary accountable for setting up technical expectation for the site contamination control and cleaning validation strategies that are agile and adequate.You will be accountable for establishing improved cleaning validation and contamination control strategy, maintain them and provide support to site investigations through complex issues and challenges related to microbial contamination. You will work in a highly cross-functional matrix environment and will work closely with cleaning validation and contamination control counterparts in quality and engineering organizations.This role will provide YOU the opportunity to lead key activities to progress YOUR career, these responsibilities include some of the following:

• Establish requirements for cleaning validation, provides in depth technical support to resolve challenges related to cleaning validation
• Represents site at CoP and Task Forces
• Facilitate, lead and/or participate on risk assessments and contamination and cleaning validation investigation and ensure well written investigation reports
• Advance Contamination Control and Cleaning Validation Program goals and drive sites related governance meetings
• Serve as the point of contact for inspection readiness with respect to contamination control and cleaning validation activities
• Support new product transfers as the contamination control expert, new process and equipment design for microbial control, and microbial risk assessments for new products and processes
• Support cross-contamination programs and initiatives across the GSC supply chain including the setting of standards within the QMSWhy you?Basic Qualifications:We are looking for professionals with these required skills to achieve our goals:
  • Bachelors degree
  • 15+ years of industrial experience in biopharmaceutical process development, MSAT or CMC roles
  • Experience with current trends in the industry for cleaning validation and contamination control, ICH Guidelines and GMP principles at commercial scale
  • Experience in Contamination Control and prevention methods
  • Prior experience with cleaning validation programs for DS manufacturing processes at commercial scale
  • Experience with large scale stainless steel commercial bioprocessesPreferred Qualifications:If you have the following characteristics, it would be a plus:
    • Strong interpersonal and leadership skills
    • Able to interact well cross-functionally within the site and with multiple stakeholders out of the sites, in and out of GSC organization (GRA, global compliance etc.)
    • Strong verbal and presentation communication skills which emphasize teamwork with a strong quality orientation
    • Strong capability to prioritize effectively and deploy resources to ensure prompt resolutions to day-to-day issues
    • Thorough understanding of bioprocesses for DS manufacturing#LI-GSKThe annual base salary for new hires in this position ranges from $136,950 to $228,250 taking into account a number of factors including work location within the US market, the candidate's skills, experience, education level and the market rate for the role. In addition, this position offers an annual bonus and eligibility to participate in our share based long term incentive program which is dependent on the level of the role. Available benefits include health care and other insurance benefits (for employee and family), retirement benefits, paid holidays, vacation, and paid caregiver/parental and medical leave.Please visit to learn more about the comprehensive benefits program GSK offers US employees.Why GSK?Uniting science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together.GSK is a global biopharma company with a special purpose - to unite science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together - so we can positively impact the health of billions of people and deliver stronger, more sustainable shareholder returns - as an organisation where people can thrive. We prevent and treat disease with vaccines, specialty and general medicines. We focus on the science of the immune system and the use of new platform and data technologies, investing in four core therapeutic areas (infectious diseases, HIV, respiratory/ immunology and oncology).Our success absolutely depends on our people. While getting ahead of disease together is about our ambition for patients and shareholders, it's also about making GSK a place where people can thrive. We want GSK to be a place where people feel inspired, encouraged and challenged to be the best they can be. A place where they can be themselves - feeling welcome, valued, and included. Where they can keep growing and look after their wellbeing. So, if you share our ambition, join us at this exciting moment in our journey to get Ahead Together.If you require an accommodation or other assistance to apply for a job at GSK, please contact the GSK Service Centre at 1-877-694-7547 (US Toll Free) or +1 801 567 5155 (outside US).GSK is an Equal Opportunity Employer. This ensures that all qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity, and sexual orientation), parental status, national origin, age, disability, genetic information (including family medical history), military service or any basis prohibited under federal, state or local law.Important notice to Employment businesses/ AgenciesGSK does not accept referrals from employment businesses and/or employment agencies in respect of the vacancies posted on this site. All employment businesses/agencies are required to contact GSK's commercial and general procurement/human resources department to obtain prior written authorization before referring any candidates to GSK. The obtaining of prior written authorization is a condition precedent to any agreement (verbal or written) between the employment business/ agency and GSK. In the absence of such written authorization being obtained any actions undertaken by the employment business/agency shall be deemed to have been performed without the consent or contractual agreement of GSK. GSK shall therefore not be liable for any fees arising from such actions or any fees arising from any referrals by employment businesses/agencies in respect of the vacancies posted on this site.Please note that if you are a US Licensed Healthcare Professional or Healthcare Professional as defined by the laws of the state issuing your license, GSK may be required to capture and report expenses GSK incurs, on your behalf, in the event you are afforded an interview for employment. This capture of applicable transfers of value is necessary to ensure GSK's compliance to all federal and state US Transparency requirements. For more information, please visit the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) website at
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