QC Laboratory Technician - 12-Month Contract – Macclesfield, (Monday–Friday 07:00–15:00)
Role: QC Laboratory Technician – Analytical Chemistry
Contract:12 Month Contract – Likelihood to extend beyond this.
Location: Macclesfield - Based 100% On-Site
Working Hours: 7.3 hours per day: 07:00 – 15:00 (Monday–Friday) – Possible Weekend Work on Occasion
Annual Bonus: Yes
Your New Company:
Make a meaningful impact on people’s lives with life-changing medicines.
In Quality, our work is important and valued. An unrivalled forward-looking attitude, there’s no better place to work at the forefront and learn how to add real value to a business throughout the life cycle of our products – discovery, development, and commercialisation. Here you’ll feel empowered to step up, follow the science and evidence to make decisions that put patients first.
Our Macclesfield Campus:
We are now recruiting for analytical laboratory technicians to join our Quality Control team at our Macclesfield site.
Macclesfield is AstraZeneca’s second-largest manufacturing and supply site and, as a laboratory technician, you will be effectively testing products within the Quality Control Laboratory team against registered specifications to agreed customer service lead times.
The Business Area:
The Analytical Chemistry Group in the Quality Assurance Department (QAD) performs Quality Control testing and process assurance activities for all production plants on the Macclesfield Site, plus contract work for Pharmaceutical Development.
Your New Role:
Due to the expansion of the business, we currently have multiple opportunities for Quality Control Chemistry Technicians to formally clear or reject products from the Quality Control laboratory teams against agreed Quality Standards within agreed customer service lead times.
Based in the QAD laboratories, you must have the flexibility to work within any one of the testing or environmental monitoring teams, and you must be prepared to work in an aseptic environment and successfully acquire an aseptic licence.
Responsibilities:
- Testing formulated products, raw materials and active pharmaceutical ingredients against registered Quality Specifications, you will ensure quality, safety and efficacy prior to delivery to the customer.
- You will utilise a wide range of analytical techniques to enable testing to proceed. This would include Dissolution, HPLC (High Performance Liquid Chromatography), UV-Vis, GLC and Infra-Red analysis.
- You will ensure that the appropriate quality systems are followed in order for the laboratory to meet its responsibilities with respect to GCLP, GMP and SHE.
- In order to optimise processes within the laboratory, you will be capable of using LEAN tools and techniques.
Essential Skills & Experience:
- Qualified to a degree/or equivalent in Chemistry and understanding of working in a GMP environment
- Experience in basic analytical and chromatographic techniques
Desirable Skills & Experience:
- Experience in the use of electronic notebooks, and data handling systems
- Experience of working within laboratory Quality Control
WHY ASTRAZENECA?
It's an exciting time to join AstraZeneca, a global business that's rapidly growing – there's a lot happening and even more to come. And we are a valued part of this journey. Respected partners across the business, we provide the platform that's going to power us to achieve more.
So, what's next?
Are you ready to bring new insights and fresh thinking to the table? Brilliant! We have one seat available, and we hope it's yours. Please apply with a copy of your CV.
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- Ethan Muse
