Raw Materials Laboratory Supervisor

4 days ago

Merseyside, United Kingdom Russell Taylor Full time

**Raw Materials Laboratory Supervisor**

**Permanent - salary on request**

**Hours of 8.00am - 4.30pm Monday to Friday**

**Pharmaceutical industry**

**Based in Merseyside**

A successful healthcare company with sites both in the UK and overseas is looking to recruit a Raw Materials Laboratory Supervisor to their site in Merseyside on a Permanent basis. Access to own transport is recommended due to location or would need to livelocally.

**Role**:
As a Member of the Site Quality function, and reporting directly to the QC Manager, the principal responsibility of this position is to supervise the Raw Materials Laboratory with 4 direct reports at the Manufacturing Facility, to facilitate the testingand approval of materials used in the manufacture of the company's products.

**Duties**:

- Supervision of a team of analysts in the Raw Materials Laboratory ensuring compliance with principles of Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) and Good Laboratory Practice (GLP).
- Ensuring the department complies with site and laboratory health, safety and environmental requirements.
- Overall responsibility for the sampling, testing and approval of raw materials.
- Liaising with the Production Services Officer to ensure raw materials are available for use in manufacture.
- Requesting Certificates of Analysis from suppliers. The review of the Certificate of Analysis to ensure it complies with the appropriate specifications prior to sampling and testing.
- Assigning duties to the QC/Raw Materials Analysts dependant on production release requirements ensuring the laboratory operations are performed in an organised and efficient manner to prevent any delays in material release.
- Ensure all equipment in the Raw Materials Laboratory is calibrated and available for use.
- Training of analysts.
- Preparation and review of Standard Operating Procedures, Raw Material Documents and Analytical Test Reports.
- Reviewing completed raw material testing results and releasing for use in manufacture.
- Performing investigations into 'out of specification results' to establish the root cause and raise appropriate CAPA actions.
- Assist in the interface between the Raw Materials Laboratory, Quality Assurance, Purchasing and Production.
- Inspection preparation - using GMP knowledge and experience to assist department inspection readiness.
- Application of knowledge & experience to support colleagues and other Departments as required.
- Managing internal and external relationships and resolving issues in a timely manner to prevent any delays in material release.
- Promoting a continuous improvement within a well-established, traditional pharmaceutical manufacturing business.

**Qualifications and Experience**:

- Experience of testing of raw materials to British Pharmacopoeia.
- Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written, with a passion for accuracy and attention to detail.
- Strong analytical thinking and problem solving/troubleshooting.
- Analytical experience, preferably including IR and NIR spectroscopy, High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC), Gas Chromatography.
- Minimum of 2 years Quality Control / Analytical experience within a pharmaceutical manufacturing environment especially within Raw Materials testing.

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