Job Details
This role is a permanent full-time position, working a 35 hour week, flexibly between Monday – Friday 07:00 – 19:00.
The purpose of this job is to perform analysis of pharmaceutical raw materials, drug substance, and finished product and produce accurate results within an acceptable timeframe.
Job Responsibilities
- To perform routine and non-routine analysis using traditional and modern analytical techniques, as required by the Lead Analyst or customer representative.
- To review analytical data for GMP compliance.
- To initiate and follow-up OOS results and action limits as per customer procedures.
- To participate in the preparation of reports and document data as dictated by current client policies and procedures.
- To collect and measure productivity through agreed metrics such as number of tests performed, cycle times, lab/product issues, number of hours worked per project, etc.
- To prepare and approve results for tests in which they have received the appropriate training and are deemed competent.
- To deal with customer queries and contact designated personnel, with appropriate support from onsite leadership, with any relevant information or issues relating to test results or the service in general.
- Support local audits as required,
- To perform QC samples in accordance with customer procedures.
- To revise SOPs as required by the Lead Analyst.
- To ensure that all documentation is carried out on time, is accurate and legible and conforms to the relevant quality standards. Must be able to mentor junior members of the team with this regard.
Qualifications
- A degree in Chemistry or a related discipline is required.
- A sound, fundamental knowledge of Chemistry is essential.
- 3 to 7 years’ relevant experience of pharmaceutical analysis in a development laboratory, or equivalent, is desired.
- Experienced and competent with traditional analytical techniques as well as modern instrumental equipment (HPLC, Karl Fischer, Dissolution, and UV spectroscopy). Able interpret raw data and draw conclusions regarding troubleshooting of instruments and methods.
- Experience of Method development and validation.
- Exposure to DryLab.
- Thorough understanding of chromatographic techniques.
- Thorough understanding of requirements for working in a GMP environment.
Additional Information
At Eurofins we are growing, innovating and always learning. We celebrate the achievements of our employees through annual long service awards, recognise our colleagues special life events, and we are committed to charitable causes through global fundraising activities.
As a Eurofins employee you will benefit from:
- Reward and Recognition
- Health Cash Plan
- Life Assurance (4 times annual salary).
- Company Pension Plan
- Employee Assistance Programme – 24/7 confidential support.
- Free car parking
- Worldwide career opportunities
- Everyone who joins our team also gets access to Perkbox, allowing you to save money all year round. Whether its supermarket savings or days out, the daily coffee or a summer holiday – there’s something to suit everyone’s lifestyle.
What Happens Next
Our people are the backbone of what we do, so it's incredibly important we find the right individuals to join us. As a potential new recruit you'll be invited to meet the team in the form of an assessment centre or a staged interview process dependent on the role and it's requirements, this will give you the opportunity to see what working for Eurofins is really like and enable us to get you know your key skills and strengths.
Your data
As part of any recruitment process, the company collects and processes personal data relating to job applicants. The company is committed to being transparent about how it collects and uses that data and to meeting its data protection obligations.
We embrace diversity! Eurofins network of companies believe in strength and innovation through diversity, being an Equal Opportunity Employer. We prohibit discrimination against employees or applications based on gender identity and/or expression, race, nationality, age, religion, sexual orientation, disability, and everything else that makes employees of Eurofins companies unique.
Sustainability matters to us! We are well on our way to achieving our objective of carbon neutrality by 2025, through a combination of emission reduction and compensation initiatives. We encourage our laboratory leaders to make sustainable changes at their local level, and in addition to their initiatives we also count on our dedicated carbon reduction team to help us to achieve this goal!
Find out more in our career page: https://careers.eurofins.com/
