Soft Services Team Leader

**Soft Services Team Leader**

**Company Overview**

Quotient Sciences is a drug development and manufacturing accelerator providing integrated programs and tailored services across the entire development pathway. Cutting through silos across a range of drug development capabilities, we save precious time and money in getting drugs to patients.

As a growing and successful business, we employ more than 1,100 talented individuals globally, located at state-of-the-art development, manufacturing and clinical facilities in the UK and USA.

Science, Agility and Culture are the core components that define Quotient Sciences, enabling us to do what we do in the way that we do it. People join Quotient Sciences because we are a respected member of the drug development community, driven by an unswerving belief that ideas need to become solutions, and molecules need to become cures, fast. Because humanity needs solutions, fast.

The Role

Quotient Sciences are expanding rapidly, with a clear commitment to drug substance development and manufacture ands have recently opened an $8m new kilo lab facility. We are currently recruiting for a Soft Services Team Leader to play a vital role in the support and running of site operations, whilst playing a key role in the facilities department.

**Key Tasks**:

- Manage site cleaning personnel and contract personal hygiene services to ensure that specified standards are maintained
- Manage the site grounds maintenance activities, ensuring high standards are maintained
- Manage the contracted Pest Control operations to agreed standards
- Manage the site security staff
- To ensure where appropriate that all activities are carried out in accordance with Regulatory Standards and current Standard Operating Procedures (SOPS’s)
- Ensure that goods are received in compliance with company procedures
- Manage the site portering services to ensure that deliveries are provided in accordance with internal customer requirements
- Manage the collection, segregation, packaging, disposal and recording of all waste streams, ensuring compliance with current regulations
- Manage dispatches from site in compliance with regulations
- Manage the laundry services to ensure employee requirements are met
- Arrangement of shipments (Radioactive, temperature controlled) with selection of courier companies, ensuring that client confidentiality is always maintained.
- Receiving all deliveries through the goods in the lobby, writing down information that is required to book goods onto the site's booking system.
- Provide administration support in departmental document management, preparing EHS courses for the e-learning platform
- Taking delivery of cardice (dry ice) & gas bottles. Ordering of site gases & liquid nitrogen, Argon.
- Ensures work is conducted in compliance with relevant regulatory requirements, internal policies/procedures and client requirements where appropriate
- The use of the site forklift for carrying out deliveries. Works with due regard to health & safety of self & others.
- Waste solvent collections and entering information on to site spreadsheet, also palletising solvent drums & shrink wrapping.
- Collection of radioactive waste from site, Enter all waste on site ISO account.
- Knowledge and experience of soft services operations within Facilities Management including working in a regulatory environment
- Management of Staff, contractors and contracts
- Knowledge of cGMP in a Pharmaceutical background
- IATA Trained in Dangerous Goods and Radiocative material by air
- ADR Certificate in carriage of Dangerous Goods by Road

**Company benefits**:
In return, you will receive a competitive salary, a generous benefits package, excellent training and development, as well as an exciting career within a fast paced and dynamic business.

**Our commitment to Diversity & Inclusion**

Quotient Sciences business are advocates for positive change and conscious inclusion. We strive to create a diverse Quotient family by remaining committed to the development of our culture, equality, mindset, diversity & inclusions in the workplace.

As a global employer, we recognise the value in having an organisation that is a true reflection and representation of our society today. All applicants welcome.