QC People Team Leader

Job Description Summary

At GE HealthCare Cork, we are looking for a QC People Team Leader to lead and develop a talented Quality Control Raw Materials team, playing a critical role in ensuring the quality, safety, and availability of materials that support life changing healthcare products. In this leadership role, you will oversee the compliant and efficient inspection, sampling, testing, and release of raw materials, packaging components, labels, and leaflets in accordance with cGMP requirements. You will foster a high performance culture focused on quality, collaboration, and continuous improvement, while ensuring right first time execution, timely material disposition, and reliable supply to support manufacturing operations and business success.

Responsibilities

• People Leadership & Team Management: Lead, manage, motivate, and develop a team of QC analysts. Set clear objectives and KPIs, conduct performance reviews, ensure resourcing and succession planning, support recruitment and training, and drive a culture of accountability, engagement, quality, and safety.
• Raw Materials & Packaging Release Oversight: Accountable for timely sampling, testing, and release/rejection of raw materials, packaging components, labels, and leaflets. Ensure compliance with specifications and regulatory requirements and meet turnaround timelines to support manufacturing.
• Quality Systems & Compliance: Ensure compliance with cGMP, GDP, and data integrity requirements. Lead investigations (OOS, deviations), support audits, ensure inspection readiness, and drive closure of quality actions.
• Operational Excellence: Monitor KPIs, turnaround times, and right first time metrics. Implement continuous improvement initiatives using Lean Six Sigma principles and optimize laboratory systems such as LIMS.
• Planning & Collaboration: Work closely with Supply Chain, QA, Manufacturing, and other stakeholders. Support escalation processes, attend daily meetings, and communicate material status effectively.
• Training & Development: Ensure all team members are trained and qualified. Identify skill gaps and deliver ongoing technical and GMP training.
• Health, Safety & Environment: Maintain high EHS standards, ensure safe working practices, and participate in audits and safety initiatives.
• Additional Responsibilities: Deputise for QC Manager, support budget planning, represent QC in meetings, and provide technical support across the site.

Principal Qualification

Degree qualified in a relevant discipline or equivalent. Background in science or engineering is preferred. Experience in the pharmaceutical or regulated manufacturing environment is desirable.

Skills Required

• Good communicational, leadership and motivational skills, flexibility and agility.
• Openness to change and a proven ability to work on own initiative.

Work Experience Required

• Knowledge of quality systems, lab instrumentation and cGMP requirements.
• Basic experience in an HPRA/FDA regulated environment.
• Good interpersonal and leadership skills.

Inclusion and Diversity

GE HealthCare is an Equal Opportunity Employer where inclusion matters. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, colour, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.

Behaviors

We expect all employees to live and breathe our behaviours: to act with humility and build trust; lead with transparency; deliver with focus, and drive ownership - always with unyielding integrity.

Total Rewards

Our total rewards are designed to unlock your ambition by giving you the boost and flexibility you need to turn your ideas into world changing realities. Our salary and benefits are everything you'd expect from an organization with global strength and scale, and you'll be surrounded by career opportunities in a culture that fosters care, collaboration and support.

Additional Information

Relocation Assistance Provided: No.