Qualification and Validation Specialist (TheNetherlands)

🔍 Qualification & Validation Specialist 📍 Location : Hybrid, The Netherlands 🕓 Type : Full-time Are you the kind of person who won’t rest until every system, process, and piece of equipment runs exactly as it should — and can prove it? We’re looking for a Qualification & Validation Specialist who’s passionate about quality, precision, and ensuring that life-saving products are backed by rock-solid compliance. In this role, you’ll play a vital part in guaranteeing that critical equipment and systems meet the highest standards — from installation to performance. If you thrive on structure, enjoy solving technical challenges, and want to make a real impact in the pharmaceutical or life sciences world, then this could be the perfect next step in your career. 💡 What’s in it for you? Make a real impact: Contribute to shaping the future of the Life Sciences industry by supporting innovative projects and clients across pharma, biotech and medical devices Grow within a community of experts: Benefit from knowledge-sharing, mentoring, and exposure to diverse, challenging assignments that broaden your expertise. Build a meaningful career: As an ambitious and pioneering company, we want to offer you the best possible environment to thrive within the life sciences. A fair, competitive package: We offer tailored, transparent compensation aligned with your expertise, preferences, and local market regulations — because your contribution deserves to be valued. 🏢 What you’ll be doing Bring a positive, quality-first mindset to validation and qualification activities, ensuring full alignment with internal policies and regulatory standards Collaborate closely on process validations (IQ/OQ/PQ) and test method validations, turning technical precision into shared success Drive nonconformance and CAPA investigations with focus and ownership, ensuring clear action plans and timely resolution Proactively share your insights to enhance our quality policies and validation procedures, helping the team grow stronger together Represent QA as a trusted partner in cross-functional projects, contributing with expertise and enthusiasm Empower others by delivering hands-on training, coaching, and support in validation, quality systems, and CSV Ensure change control processes are followed with care and discipline — keeping systems validated and audit-ready throughout their lifecycle Keep a close eye on performance through regular system reviews, ensuring compliance is maintained and improvements are made Put controls in place to protect data integrity and traceability, making sure our quality records tell the full story Step up as a subject matter expert during internal and external audits — including the high-stakes ones — with confidence and clarity 💪 What you bring You bring a solid academic foundation with a BSc degree in Life Sciences & Technology, Exact Sciences, Computer Science, or Engineering You have hands-on experience in QA, computer system validation (CSV), or automated processes, and a practical understanding of validating products, equipment, processes, risk management, and data integrity You’re confident navigating regulatory landscapes, with working knowledge of GMP, FDA, EMA, and local quality guidelines. You have a good understanding of Annex 1 guidelines for validation purpose. You’re proactive, results-oriented, and flexible — someone who pays attention to the details, takes ownership, and thrives both independently and in close collaboration with others 🫵 Who you are Our culture is driven by values If this sounds like you, you’ll fit right in: You’re resilient and tackle challenges with a positive mindset You’re curious and always up for learning something new You have a no non-sense approach honest, clear, respectful You’re innovative and bring ideas, not just opinions And above all, you’re serious about your work, but not too serious about yourself ✨ About us We support life sciences companies from idea to patient — offering tailored solutions in development, clinical, regulatory, compliance, production, and distribution. With 500+ experts across 8 countries, we help drive innovation in ATMP, biotech, medical devices, diagnostics, digital health, and pharma. We believe in JPEG : Joy. Partnership. Going the Extra Mile. Getting Things Done. You won’t just be taking a job — you’ll be joining a community where people grow, laugh, build, and contribute to something bigger. 📩 Interested? Let’s talk. Send us your CV and motivation letter. You could be the next one to join the QbD family.