Chemistry Team Leader

2 months ago

Elstree, United Kingdom Bio Products Laboratory Limited Full time

Bio Products Laboratory (BPL), part of Kedrion Biopharma, has a new vacancy for a Chemistry Team Leader to join the Quality Department located in Elstree, Hertfordshire.

This exciting first-line management role within a laboratory setting will suit someone with experience supervising staff overseeing day-to-day operations and working to GMP standards.

Duties & Responsibilities will include -

Authority and decision making

  • Planning day-to-day work across the department.
  • To assist with the delivery of departmental objectives.
  • Ensure that KPIs are met.
  • Raise and lead Minor + Major + Critical deviations
  • Support Critical deviations
  • Having awareness of all quality records within own area.
  • Provide the necessary support for quality records to ensure they are completed within required timelines.
  • Ensure OOSs when reported by the department are raised and investigated in accordance with procedure, supporting completion of investigations (Phase I and II) to ensure the right outcome is achieved.
  • Tracking/trending of OOSs
  • To recommend change controls and to lead and implement agreed actions.
  • Deliver the training programme for the section through departmental metrics and business needs.
  • Empowering the team to identifying the need for procedure updates and ensuring correct procedures are in place. Reviewing complex procedural updates, and responsible for approving less complex procedures.
  • Ensuring sufficient resources are available, for routine work and any additional work taken on by the department communicating to line management when resource limitations exist
  • Assisting with recruitment, such as identifying recruitment needs, reviewing CVs for suitable candidates, performing interviews and liaising with HR regarding selection and on boarding of successful candidates.
  • Handling of issues

Budget / Capital Expenditure

  • Monitoring of spending on consumables and equipment.
  • Identifying the need for and raising orders.
  • Contributing to preparation of annual OPEX and CAPEX plans.

People Management

  • Responsible for the management of Senior Analysts, Analyst II and Analyst I staff.
  • Undertaking annual performance reviews, performance management, disciplinaries (up to verbal warning), training, and mentoring.
  • Delivery of the training plan for the section.
  • Ensure that effective and target driven one-to-ones are delivered for all grades of analyst.
  • Managing teams working multiple shift patterns.
  • Managing teams working in laboratories and process areas.
  • Supervising third party contractors e.g. servicing of laboratory equipment, testing production areas.

Project Management

Delivering agreed projects within the laboratory and across manufacturing.

Skills & experience to help you within the role –

  • BSc in relevant subject (or equivalent experience)
  • Demonstrated management skills.
  • Planning and organisation skills to be able run a section in terms of samples and staffing.
  • Capacity to grasp concepts easily.
  • Computer literate – competent in the use of Microsoft Office, in particular Word and Excel at an intermediate level.
  • Able to ensure high levels of quality are achieved.
  • Able to communicate clearly and persuasively with the team.
  • Problem solving.
  • Extensive laboratory experience and demonstrated competency in managing others
  • Competent in 70% of testing performed within department
  • Good knowledge/understanding of GMP/GLP.
  • Experience of managing or supervising laboratory analysts.
  • Experience in OOS and invalid assay investigations.
  • Experience of raising, completing, and investigating quality records.
  • BSc in relevant subject (or equivalent experience)
  • Requirement for business travel.
  • Offering support to the department outside of normal hours.
  • Requirement to represent the business outside of BPL.

In return we offer -

We're looking for highly motivated and experienced people to drive the business forward. If you are passionate about Human Resources, we want to hear from you.

  • Competitive salary
  • Bonus
  • 25 days holiday
  • Pension
  • Life insurance
  • On-site parking
  • Employee assistance programme
  • My Healthy Advantage phone app
  • Virtual GP
  • Cycle to work scheme
  • Subsidised canteen


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