🔍 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.