Analytical Product Development Scientist in Macclesfield

This is a fulltime, permanent position, working a flexible 36.5 hour week, Monday – Friday. The purpose of this job is to support analysis of pharmaceutical Oral Drug Products and New Modalities with 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 Scientist or customer representative.
• Experience in chromatography and ideally using Empower CDS and able to carry out technical reviews.
• Ability to coordinate sample analysis, support stability studies at CROs and generate reports.
• Ideally, experience working with Peptide molecules would be highly valued.
• To review analytical data for GMP compliance.
• In line with experience, support development and validation of analytical procedures used for Oral Drug Products and New Modalities.
• To prepare and approve results for tests in which they have received the appropriate training and are deemed competent.
• To train as required, other Eurofins or client employees in analytical techniques and electronic systems in which the Analyst is competent.
• To initiate and follow-up OOS results and action limits as per customer procedures.
• To identify any opportunities for improvement of quality and service and work with the team to implement continuous improvement.
• To document data as dictated by current client policies and procedures.
• To ensure that all documentation is carried out on time, is accurate and legible and conforms to the relevant quality standards.
• To update any relevant documentation when requested by Lead Scientist or client representative.
• To participate in the preparation of reports.

Qualifications:

• A degree in Chemistry or a related discipline is required.
• Proven 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, Mass Spectroscopy and other Spectroscopic techniques).
• Able to interpret raw data and draw conclusions regarding troubleshooting of instruments and methods.
• Thorough understanding of chromatographic techniques with some troubleshooting capabilities.
• Thorough understanding of requirements for working in a GMP environment.
• Ability to quickly learn new processes.
• Works proactively to offer suggestions for new ways to improve existing processes.

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
• Access to Perkbox, allowing you to save money all year round.

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 its requirements, this will give you the opportunity to see what working for Eurofins is really like and enable us to get to 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!