QC Microbiologist 1

Reckitt Benckiser LLC; Singapore; On-site; SGD 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company dedicated to hygiene, health, and nutrition is seeking a QC Microbiologist to join their team. The role involves ensuring compliance with testing standards, supporting analytical methods, and maintaining laboratory records. Ideal candidates will have a degree in microbiology and relevant testing experience in the infant formula industry.

Benefits

Parental benefits

Mental health support

Life insurance

Short-term incentives

Qualifications

• 1-3 years of testing experience in the infant formula manufacturing industry preferred.
• Hands-on experience with microbiological laboratory testing technologies.

Responsibilities

• Ensure timely testing of raw materials and finished goods to meet quality requirements.
• Support Root Cause Analysis and assist with Method Verification and Validation.

Skills

Business strategy

Task execution under pressure

Adaptability to technological changes

Innovation processes

Education

Degree in microbiology, food science, or related field

Tools

Autoclaves

Vitek

Vidas

Incubators

MDS

Job description

QC Microbiologist 1

Home to the world's best loved and trusted hygiene, health, and nutrition brands. Our purpose defines why we exist: to protect, heal and nurture in the relentless pursuit of a cleaner, healthier world. We are a global team united by this purpose.

Join us in our fight to make access to the highest quality hygiene, wellness, and nourishment a right and not a privilege.

About the role

Your responsibilities

• Ensure the assigned tasks for raw materials, in-process, utility, base powder, and finished goods samples are tested in a timely manner to meet TAT according to established test methods, technology, and quality requirements to provide accurate results, including sample compositing for both base and finished goods.
• Maintain basic knowledge of GLP, GDP, and GMP to work effectively in the microbiology laboratory.
• Support Root Cause Analysis to investigate OOS, deviations, atypical, and invalid results.
• Assist with Method Verification and Validation as needed. Support Global Analytical Method Harmonization activities, such as method transfer and implementation.
• Collect and analyze routine and non-routine Environmental Monitoring samples, including swab, air, and water samples, to ensure the plant maintains good hygiene conditions.
• Support environmental monitoring swab and testing activities when required.
• Support urgent business needs by conducting sampling or testing during off-hours or weekends as necessary.
• Maintain complete, legible notebooks and laboratory records in compliance with good laboratory practices.
• Manage inventory of QC materials such as reagents, chemicals, and consumables to support testing.
• Use GLIMS laboratory data management system effectively to manage laboratory data, retrieve results, and support data trending and investigations.
• Maintain laboratory, work area, and equipment housekeeping standards (e.g., practice 5S), observe safety requirements, and ensure Good Laboratory Practice compliance with company and regulatory standards.

The experience we're looking for

At least a degree in microbiology, food science, or a related field, with 1 to 3 years of testing experience, preferably in the infant formula manufacturing industry.

Hands-on experience with microbiological laboratory testing technologies and instruments such as autoclaves, Vitek, Vidas, incubators, and MDS.

The skills for success

Business strategy, task execution under pressure, making strategic business decisions, business acumen, commercial awareness, objective setting, accountability, consumer insight, creative direction, R&D, change leadership, product lifecycle management, business partnership, collaboration and partnership building, relationship management, adaptability to technological changes, ability to challenge the status quo, innovation processes, digital transformation for R&D, quality, and manufacturing.

What we offer

We support inclusion and diversity through our global Employee Resource Groups, investing in our people's wellbeing with parental benefits, mental health support, life insurance, and other benefits aligned with local markets. Our global share plans offer opportunities to share in Reckitt's success, and we provide short-term incentives for outstanding performance. Rewards are aligned with our pay-for-performance philosophy.

Equality

We hire for potential as well as experience. Even if you don't meet every point on the job description, if this role and our company feel like a good fit, we want to hear from you.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration regardless of age, disability, medical condition, ethnicity, race, citizenship, religion, pregnancy, family responsibilities, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, size, or other protected categories.