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AstraZeneca · Pharmaceuticals

Quality Assurance At-the-Source Specialist, Cell Therapy

  • Rockville, MD
  • On-site
  • Full-time
  • Associate & Specialist
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Deadline

Closes Oct 28, 2026 · 14 days left

The role

Job Profile Description

Provides independent, visible Quality Assurance leadership at the source of cell therapy manufacturing. This is a shift-based role scheduled for four days per week, Wednesday through Saturday. Partners with Manufacturing and supporting functions to apply risk-based quality judgment, resolve issues within established frameworks, and support reliable, compliant execution. Operates independently across qualified routine and moderately complex situations, influences cross-functional decisions, and strengthens quality culture through practical coaching, clear communication, and disciplined follow-through. Specific quality-system responsibilities and approval authorities are defined through applicable procedures, qualifications, and delegated authority.

This is a shift-based role scheduled four days per week, Wednesday through Saturday.

What you need

Typical Accountabilities

  • Maintain a consistent Quality presence in manufacturing areas and provide real-time, practical guidance that supports safe, compliant, and reliable execution.
  • Support manufacturing unit operations from a Quality Assurance perspective and assist to resolve manufacturing events and/or quality events in real-time
  • Independently assess routine and moderately complex quality situations, integrate available facts and risk considerations, and determine appropriate action or escalation within established standards.
  • Partner across functions to clarify requirements, align decisions, remove barriers, and sustain appropriate Quality independence.
  • Recognize emerging risks, recurring issues, and performance gaps; communicate implications and recommend proportionate actions.
  • Lead defined problem-solving and improvement activities, ensuring decisions are evidence-based, clearly documented, and carried through to effective resolution.
  • Coach colleagues on quality thinking, disciplined execution, data integrity, contamination control, and right-first-time behaviors.
  • Contribute quality judgment to operational meetings, shift handoffs, readiness discussions, and cross-functional decision forums.
  • Manage multiple priorities independently, communicate changes in risk or urgency, and maintain reliable follow-through in a fast-paced patient-focused environment.
  • Support inspection readiness and represent Quality confidently within the scope of training, experience, and delegated authority.
  • Work a shift-based schedule of four days per week, Wednesday through Saturday, and support occasional off-hours or holidays as needed for manufacturing operations and patient commitments.
  • The role may require additional responsibilities as necessary.

Essential

  • Bachelor's degree in Science, Engineering, Quality, or a related technical field with relevant GMP quality or manufacturing experience; equivalent combinations of education and experience may be considered in accordance with the approved job catalogue.
  • Demonstrated ability to work independently in a regulated environment and apply cGMP principles to real-time operational decisions.
  • Sound risk-based judgment, including the ability to distinguish routine issues from situations requiring broader escalation.
  • Ability to lead defined problem-solving, synthesize facts, recommend actions, and communicate decisions clearly.
  • Strong cross-functional collaboration and influencing skills, including respectful challenge and practical coaching.
  • Ability to organize competing priorities and deliver high-quality work with limited day-to-day supervision.
  • Ability to gown and work in controlled manufacturing environments.
  • Ability to work the established four-day Wednesday-through-Saturday shift schedule and meet the additional scheduling requirements of the role.

Desirable

  • Experience in biologics, aseptic processing, advanced therapies, or autologous cell therapy manufacturing.
  • Working knowledge of international cell therapy GxP regulatory frameworks, regulations, and guidance.
  • Experience with digital manufacturing, document management, learning, or quality systems.

The annual base pay for this position ranges from $100,880 - $151,321. Our positions offer eligibility for multiple incentives an opportunity to receive short-term incentive bonuses, equity-based awards for salaried roles and commissions for sales roles. Benefits offered include qualified retirement programs, paid time off (i.e., vacation, holiday, and leaves), as well as health, dental, and vision coverage in accordance with the terms of the applicable plans.

Date Posted

14-Oct-2026

Closing Date

27-Oct-2026

Our mission is to build an inclusive environment where equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants and employees. In furtherance of that mission, we welcome and consider applications from all qualified candidates, regardless of their protected characteristics. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please complete the corresponding section in the application form.

Pay and benefits

$100,880 – $151,321 a year

Employer provided
How this compares
  • Short-term incentive bonuses

  • Equity-based awards

  • Retirement programs

  • Paid time off

  • Health coverage

  • Dental and vision coverage

Where you'll work

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Job intelligence

The context around this role

Live data · October 15, 2026

Salary intelligence

How the pay compares

This role's midpoint is 61% above the US median for Quality Assurance roles at this level.

This roleEmployer provided

$100,880 to $151,321 a year

Associate & Specialist roles in the US157 roles publishing pay

Middle half $59,000 to $94,000, median $78,500
Annual base pay
Annual base payLowMedianHigh
This role$100,880—$151,321
All US$59,000$78,500$94,000

This role: AstraZeneca's own published range. Comparisons: the base pay employers published on open Quality Assurance roles at the same level on Regulatory Jobs, October 15, 2026. Nothing is estimated.

Career trajectory

Where this role sits in Quality Assurance

The general path across 845 open Quality Assurance roles on Regulatory Jobs, with the titles they carry most. Not AstraZeneca's own promotion track.

  1. This role

    Associate & Specialist

    Often: Quality Engineer · Quality Technician

    $79K median227 open
  2. Next step

    Senior & Principal

    Often: Quality Engineer · Senior Quality Engineer

    $123K median353 open
  3. Later

    Manager

    Often: Manager, Quality Assurance · Quality Manager

    $153K median136 open
  4. Later

    Director

    Often: Director, Quality · Associate Director, Clinical Quality Assurance

    $209K median114 open
  5. Later

    VP & Executive

    Often: Vice President, Quality Assurance · AVP

    $302K median15 open

Skills DNA

What this role leans on

How many of the posting's 29 duty, requirement and summary lines touch each area. The posting's emphasis, not a proficiency score.

GMP and compliance: 4 linesDocumentation and SOPs: 3 linesQuality systems and risk: 1 lineData and digital systems: 1 lineCollaboration and leadership: 9 linesGMPDocumentationQuality systemsData systemsTeamwork
  • Collaboration and leadership9
  • GMP and compliance4
  • Documentation and SOPs3
  • Quality systems and risk1
  • Data and digital systems1

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By discipline

  • Regulatory11 73%
  • Quality4 27%

By level

  • Director10 67%
  • Manager2 13%
  • Associate & Specialist2 13%
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