QC Lab Supervisor

PE Global; Sligo; On-site; EUR 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

PE Global is recruiting for a QC Lab Support Supervisor for a leading multi-national Pharma client based in Sligo. This contract position entails providing an effective testing and analytical service to ensure products meet specifications on time and plant quality and safety goals are achieved.

The role requires ensuring raw materials, in-process and finished product testing is conducted per schedule, maintaining records to required standards, and coaching analysts to ensure right first time.

Qualifications

• : Minimum 4 years analytical experience in the pharmaceutical industry.
• : Must be expert in HPLC and GC.
• : Strong knowledge on regulatory requirements.
• : Proficient in using analytical equipment in the QC lab.
• : Responsible for the presentation of data to stakeholders to ensure prompt decisions on deviations within the QC Lab.

Responsibilities

• Ensure Laboratory Documentation and Computerized Systems compliance with Data Integrity policies and regulatory requirements.
• Understand Regulations and business processes required to maintain Laboratory Data Integrity.
• Coach analysts and improve test execution performance.
• Improve overall efficiency and velocity within the team.
• Maintain schedules and recovery paths to align with plant requirements.
• Identify weaknesses in laboratory performance and work with the laboratory manager to rectify.
• Act as designee for the Laboratory Supervisor as assigned.
• Instill a quality culture of Zero, Believe it, Achieve it among the QC laboratory team.
• Execute and/or support projects as assigned by the laboratory manager.
• Develop and update in-house laboratory procedures as appropriate.

Skills

Analytical experience

Regulatory knowledge

Data presentation

Tools

HPLC

GC

Laboratory equipment

Job description

PE Global is currently recruiting for a QC Lab Support Supervisor for a leading multi-national Pharma client based in Sligo.

This is a contract position.

Role:

To provide an effective testing and analytical service to the plant ensuring that products manufactured are tested to specification on time and plant quality and safety goals are met.

Ensure that all raw materials, in-process, finished product testing is carried out per schedule, and records are maintained to appropriate requirements. Ensure that technical and systems excellence is maintained in the laboratory by ensuring own skills are maintained, by coaching and training analysts to ensure right first-time behaviour and by implementing improved working practices in terms of efficiency, compliance and Right First Time.

This position will take full responsibility for Compliance, Documentation, Equipment troubleshooting, Planning and Scheduling, LIMS and LES updates and System Training as required within the QC Lab. Other responsibilities may be assigned as required.

Responsibilities:

• Ensure Laboratory Documentation and Computerized Systems compliance with Data Integrity policies and regulatory requirements.
• Understand Regulations and business processes required to maintain Laboratory Data Integrity.
• Ensuring that analysts working in the assigned team are performing to the best of their ability, coaching and providing guidance where issues occur such as poor set-up or test execution performance.
• Improving the overall efficiency and velocity within the assigned team.
• Ensuring that the agreed schedule timelines, and identify recovery paths when required, to bring test schedules back into alignment with plant requirements.
• Identifying weaknesses in laboratory performance and working with the laboratory manager to rectify.
• Acting as designee for the Laboratory Supervisor as assigned.
• Instilling a quality culture of Zero, Believe it, Achieve it among the QC laboratory team
• Executing and / or supporting projects as assigned by the laboratory manager.
• Developing and changing of in-house laboratory procedures as appropriate.
• Completes project work.
• Adheres to and supports all EHS standards, procedures, and policies.
• Development and review of training material.

Requirements:

• Minimum 4 years analytical experience in the pharmaceutical industry.
• Proven track record in an analytical role. Must be expert in HPLC and GC.
• Strong knowledge on regulatory requirements.
• Proficient in using analytical equipment in the QC lab.
• Responsible for the presentation of data to stakeholders to ensure prompt decisions on deviations within the QC Lab.

Please note our client cannot assist with any visa sponsorship and candidates must have the correct visa to live and work in Ireland