SENIOR QC ANALYST SOUTHPORT
Company overview
The client is a pharmaceutical company based in Southport and is recruiting for a Senior QC Analyst in a permanent position. The site is responsible for the manufacture of oral and topical products (tablets, capsules, creams, gels).
Vacancy overview
The client is looking for a Senior QC Analyst principally to provide support to the QC Manager and facilitate the testing and release of finished products. The Senior Analyst will be responsible for 4 direct reports in their own team.
Main responsibilities
- Supervise/lead of a team of analysts in the Quality Control ensuring compliance with principles of Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) and Good Laboratory Practice (GLP).
- Review of Batch Manufacturing Documents and analytical test results to facilitate the release for filling.
- Review and approval of product labels for use by the Production Department.
- To perform testing of manufactured product samples for release, stability studies and validation using various analytical techniques, mainly HPLC and GC.
- Assigning duties to analysts dependant on production release requirements ensuring the laboratory operations are performed in an organised and efficient manner to prevent any delays in material/product release.
- Reviewing completed analytical testing results.
- Preparation and review of Standard Operating Procedures, Raw Material Documents, Analytical Test Reports, Validation Protocols and Reports.
- Ensuring laboratory housekeeping is maintained to appropriate standards.
- Provide technical support and troubleshooting and equipment and analytical methods.
Requirements
- Management skills and experience of managing a team of analysts.
- Experience of testing of raw materials to British Pharmacopoeia and finished products to registered specifications.
- Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written, with a passion for accuracy and attention to detail.
- Strong analytical thinking and problem solving/troubleshooting.
- Good computer literacy.
- Analytical experience, preferably including IR and NIR spectroscopy, High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC), Gas Chromatography.
- The role owner will have proven Quality Control/Analytical experience within a pharmaceutical manufacturing environment. It is anticipated that the person will have a minimum of five years practical experience of testing of pharmaceutical products to registered specifications.
- A Degree in Chemical Sciences is a requirement although consideration would be given to an applicant with relevant practical experience.
Interested candidates should apply to Alex Prew, Scientific Recruiter at LiCa Scientific.
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