Pet Chemist

PET Chemist - Radiopharmaceutical Production
Make a difference Production Chemist - PET Radiopharmaceuticals
Your new company
Our Nottingham-based client is a MedTech leader with an extensive track record of bringing new technologies and innovations to market, transforming the healthcare landscape. They are aiming to hire an experienced chemist to assist in the production of radiopharmaceuticals.
This is a rare and exciting opportunity to enter an exciting field within pharmaceuticals without the need for radiochemistry prerequisites (although this would be preferred) or experience with radiopharmaceutical production.
Your new role
You will join a team of experienced PET-QC/production chemists and cyclotron engineers in a dynamic, high-throughput environment. In addition to play a part in the production of radiopharmaceuticals, you will be key in assisting the head of QC to ensure productionactivities are performed to strict cGMP standards. This role will help our client meet the requirements for radiopharmaceutical production, radiation compliance, cGMP, HSE, and licensing commitments. (Full training provided).
Responsibilities will include
- Assisting the Head of QC to ensure that production and QC activities are performed in accordance with cGMP.
- Production of radiopharmaceuticals.
- Perform cleaning and maintenance of clean room and associated devices, and carry out scheduled environmental monitoring.
- Assist in the periodic review of SOPs and writing of new procedures as required.
- Achieve maximum delivery of product by troubleshooting issues and optimising production to reduce/eliminate downtime.
- Assist in facility preparation external audits where required (e.g. MHRA).
- Following ADR regarding shipment of dangerous goods.
- Operation of a cyclotron particle accelerator.

What you'll need to succeed
- An understanding of the testing and/or production of PET radiopharmaceuticals.
- Experience using analytical chemistry in a cGMP environment - Particularly within a clean room environment in the pharmaceutical industry (preferably 2 years minimum).- HPLC, GC, IC with an understanding of data integrity compliance.
- TLC and endotoxin experience.
- Experience with quality management systems (CAPA, OOS, Change control etc).
- Overall knowledge of current guidelines (MHRA, ICH, USP, EP Monographs).
- Resilience, working to a rotating shift pattern according to customer and business needs.
- Proactive management of personal workload.
- Good documentation skills.
- Ambition and a desire to learn new skills

What you'll get in return
- Comprehensive training.
- A competitive salary.
- Attractive benefits package including discounts, shares schemes, and pension contributions.
- Join an inclusive, welcoming company and use cutting edge equipment and techniques.
- Knowledge that the work you are doing is directly and indirectly helping to improve lives, providing radiopharmaceuticals to clinicians and patients as well as assisting researchers in improving nuclear medicine.

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