Job Title: QC Manager
Salary: Highly competitive basic, bonuses & benefits!
Location: Deeside
SRG is working with a rapidly expanding biopharmaceutical company in the northwest of England, who require a QC Manager with biopharmaceutical experience to manage and lead a technically capable QC team.
Responsibilities:
- Responsible for leading and managing daily activities of laboratory group to ensure compliance with quality and reliability standards.
- Budgetary responsibility for the QC Department including management of spend and equipment capital expenditure ensuring development and testing service is provided in a cost-effective manner whilst meeting key milestone deliveries.
- Schedules and communicates with appropriate functional groups regarding status of activities and quality testing requirements which includes chemical, biochemical, cell biology and microbiology analyses.
- Provides expert review of data, protocols and reports for adherence to cGMPs and good documentation practices including but not limited to analytical methods, raw material and product specifications, certificates of testing, stability study protocols, method qualification protocols and reports.
- Providing timely and accurate testing updates for materials, samples, products and stability studies to internal parties and external clients.
- Ensures quality control training and reviews and approves standard operating procedures (SOPs)
Requirements
- Degree (or preferably Masters/PhD) or equivalent in Chemistry/Biochemistry or a related scientific/technical field.
- Previous supervisory/management experience within a cGMP QC laboratory.
- Knowledge/experience of testing protein therapeutics (ideally antibody drug conjugates).
- Expertise in chemical, biochemical and microbiological method development, qualification, and statistical quality control.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, experience with scientific writing including authoring and revising SOP’s and technical reports.
- Used to working in a fast-paced complex environment, able to work to flexible schedules.
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