Pfizer Posted October 30, 2026

Quality Assurance Specialist

Rochester, United States Full time
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About this opportunity

Use Your Power for Purpose

Every day, our unwavering commitment to quality ensures the delivery of safe and effective products to patients. Our flexible, innovative, and customer-oriented culture is rooted in science and risk-based compliance. Whether you are engaged in development, maintenance, compliance, or research analysis, your contributions have a direct impact on patient care. By being part of our team, you help uphold a quality culture that adapts and evolves to meet the needs of patients, ensuring that every product we deliver is of the highest standard. Your role is crucial in maintaining this commitment and driving forward our mission to improve patient outcomes.

What You Will Achieve

In this role, you will:

Evaluate and review clinical and commercial drug batches to ensure quality.

Ensure product and process documents meet established specifications through rigorous sampling and statistical process control.

Identify and address deviations from manufacturing and packaging standards.

Approve investigations and oversee change control activities to maintain compliance with configuration management policies.

Contribute to project tasks and milestones, organizing work to meet deadlines.

Learn and apply basic team effectiveness skills within the immediate work team.

Make decisions within limited options to resolve basic problems under supervisor's direction.

Ensure manufacturing and packaging records conform to Pfizer policy and cGMP standards.

Maintain inspection readiness, support regulatory and customer inspections, and improve quality assurance systems.

Assist manufacturing/packaging staff in real-time compliance error detection and resolution, and lead or participate in Quality Risk Management assessments.

Here Is What You Need (Minimum Requirements)

Bachelor's degree with any years of experience, or an Associate's degree with 4 years of relevant experience, or a high school diploma (or equivalent) and 6 years of relevant experience

Experience in the pharmaceutical industry and Quality administered systems

Sound knowledge of current Good Manufacturing Practices (part of GxP)

Ability to work effectively in a team environment, both within one's own team and interdepartmental teams

Effective written and oral communication skills

Bonus Points If You Have (Preferred Requirements)

Experience at a manufacturing site.

Managing and writing deviations

Experience in production batch record review, Enterprise Resource Planning system, investigation of non-conformance, root cause analysis and change control management

Strong problem-solving skills

Ability to work independently and as part of a team

Excellent time management and multitasking abilities

Experience using common AI tools, including generative technologies such as ChatGPT or Microsoft Copilot, to support problem solving and enhance

PHYSICAL/MENTAL REQUIREMENTS

Expected to spend time between office and shop floor as needed to support manufacturing.

This is a penicillin manufacturing facility.  Any candidates applying must NOT be allergic to penicillin.

NON-STANDARD WORK SCHEDULE, TRAVEL OR ENVIRONMENT REQUIREMENTS

This is a first shift position (0700-1530). The selected candidate will be required to support manufacturing as needed and be on premise for occasional weekend shifts.

Relocation support available

Work Location Assignment: On Premise

The annual base salary for this position ranges from $68,600.00 to $114,300.00. In addition, this position is eligible for participation in Pfizer’s Global Performance Plan with a bonus target of 7.5% of the base salary. We offer comprehensive and generous benefits and programs to help our colleagues lead healthy lives and to support each of life’s moments. Benefits offered include a 401(k) plan with Pfizer Matching Contributions and an additional Pfizer Retirement Savings Contribution, paid vacation, holiday and personal days, paid caregiver/parental and medical leave, and health benefits to include medical, prescription drug, dental and vision coverage. Learn more at Pfizer Candidate Site – U.S. Benefits | (uscandidates.mypfizerbenefits.com). Pfizer compensation structures and benefit packages are aligned based on the location of hire. The United States salary range provided does not apply to Tampa, FL or any location outside of the United States.

Relocation assistance may be available based on business needs and/or eligibility.

Candidates must be authorized to be employed in the U.S. by any employer.

U.S. work visa sponsorship (such as TN, O-1, H-1B, etc.) is not available for this role now or in the future.

Sunshine Act

Pfizer reports payments and other transfers of value to health care providers as required by federal and state transparency laws and implementing regulations.  These laws and regulations require Pfizer to provide government agencies with information such as a health care provider’s name, address and the type of payments or other value received, generally for public disclosure.  Subject to further legal review and statutory or regulatory clarification, which Pfizer intends to pursue, reimbursement of recruiting expenses for licensed physicians may constitute a reportable transfer of value under the federal transparency law commonly known as the Sunshine Act.  Therefore, if you are a licensed physician who incurs recruiting expenses as a result of interviewing with Pfizer that we pay or reimburse, your name, address and the amount of payments made currently will be reported to the government.  If you have questions regarding this matter, please do not hesitate to contact your Talent Acquisition representative.

EEO & Employment Eligibility

Pfizer is committed to equal opportunity in the terms and conditions of employment for all employees and job applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, gender identity or gender expression, national origin, disability or veteran status.  Pfizer also complies with all applicable national, state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment as well as work authorization and employment eligibility verification requirements of the Immigration and Nationality Act and IRCA.  Pfizer is an E-Verify employer.  This position requires permanent work authorization in the United States.

Pfizer endeavors to make   www.pfizer.com/careers   accessible to all users. If you would like to contact us regarding the accessibility of our website or need assistance completing the application process and/or interviewing, please email   disabilityrecruitment@pfizer.com . This is to be used solely for accommodation requests with respect to the accessibility of our website, online application process and/or interviewing. Requests for any other reason will not be returned.

To learn more about acceptable and prohibited uses of AI during the recruitment process, please review our candidate AI-use guidelines available on  Pfizer Careers .

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Job details

Seniority
Not listed
Function
Quality
Therapeutic area
Not listed
Location
Rochester, United States
Employment type
Full time

How this role compares

Computed from every other active Quality role in our database, not just this employer's listings.

We currently track 1473 comparable Quality roles across 144 biopharma companies.

1473Comparable roles tracked
1323Currently active
144Companies hiring similar roles
53Countries represented

Salary context

260 of 1473 peers report a salary range (USD, annualized)

Peers share this role's job function. This posting doesn't list a seniority level, so peers aren't narrowed by seniority either -- the range below may span more levels than usual.

This roleSubject $68,600/yr – $114,300/yr
Lowest disclosed · QC Lab Technician (Lilly Contractor - Fixed Term) · Lilly $13/hr – $29/hr (≈ $26,998–$60,507/yr)
Highest disclosed · VP, Quality Assurance · City Therapeutics $340,000/yr – $360,000/yr
Peer group range $43,753 – $350,000 (median $123,250)

Where these roles are based

Top locations among the 1473 comparable roles

United States589
Ireland91
Germany72
China69
France67
India56

+ 47 more countries

Seniority mix

726 of 1473 peers have a known seniority level

Manager220
Senior187
Intern/Fellow/Postdoc98
Associate66
Director47
Associate Director45
Principal31
Senior Director25
Executive/VP7

Therapeutic area mix

3 of 1473 peers have a known therapeutic area; the rest are genuinely unlabeled, not hidden

Vaccines & Infectious Disease2
Respiratory1

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How we calculate "similar"

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