Quality Assurance Assistant – Johannesburg

About the role

The Quality Assurance Assistant will support the QA team in ensuring that medicines and medical devices meet the highest quality and regulatory standards. This role involves hands‑on inspection, documentation, and collaboration with production teams to maintain compliance.

Key responsibilities

• Support quality inspections and testing of products and components.
• Maintain quality records, inspection reports and test results.
• Assist with calibration of QA testing equipment and clean‑room inspections.
• Work with production teams to identify and resolve quality issues.
• Help prepare documentation for external audits and manage retained samples.
• Participate in customer and supplier complaint investigations.
• Support sterilisation documentation and Certificates of Conformance.
• Assist with equipment and process qualification and validation activities.
• Perform administrative duties such as data capture, scanning and document control.

Required profile

• High school diploma or equivalent.
• ISO 13485 training certificates and basic SAHPRA regulatory awareness are advantageous.
• Minimum three years of experience in quality control or a related environment preferred.

Required skills

• Proficiency in Outlook.
• Proficiency in SharePoint.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications.