Location: Waterford
Job type: Fixed term, Full time
About the job
We deliver 4.3 billion healthcare solutions to people every year, thanks to the flawless planning and meticulous eye for detail of our Manufacturing & Supply teams. With your talent and ambition, we can do even more to protect people from infectious diseases and bring hope to patients and their families. Your job as a QC Chemist, will be to provide analytical services while performing a key role in the maintenance of a safe, efficient and functional chemistry Laboratories, developed to the required standards, in accordance with cGLP.
We are an innovative global healthcare company with one purpose: to chase the miracles of science to improve people's lives. We're also a company where you can flourish and grow your career, with countless opportunities to explore, make connections with people, and stretch the limits of what you thought was possible. Ready to get started?
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Main responsibilities:
- Provide analytical chemistry services and support to Site
- Effective interaction with other departments on matters related to raw materials, intermediates and finished batch releases. In particular, close contact maintained with Quality Assurance Production, Engineering and Planners
- Maintain, update and issue chemical methods, specifications and SOP's in compliance to pharmacopoeial and regulatory requirements
- Assist with training of the analysts in areas of expertise and knowledge and in new methods, SOP's and updates
- Trend such results, record on COA's where required and complete OOS's investigations on a timely basis
- Update the QC Team Leader on potential problems and highlight improvements where possible by use of the normal communication means
- Audit and review chemistry test results on a daily basis and ensure compliance with cGLP; checking/auditing laboratory notebooks and analytical reports
About you
Experience:
- Relevant laboratory experience obtained in a manufacturing environment
Technical and Soft skills:
- Operational experience of quality laboratories in a fast-moving manufacturing environment
- Knowledge of quality management systems, pharmaceutical manufacturing operations, requirements for cGLP, pharmacopoeial methods and stability
- Knowledge of any of the following methodologies: HPLC, ICIEF, CE-SDS
- Understand relevant quality/compliance regulations, and KPIs for the site
- Can manage projects to plan/budget
- Good communication and an effective facilitator
- Shows flexibility, drive, innovation, can collaborate effectively with others
Education:
- Degree in Science (Chemistry or Biochemistry preferred)
Why choose us?
- Bring the miracles of science to life alongside a supportive, future-focused team.
- Discover endless opportunities to grow your talent and drive your career, whether it's through a promotion or lateral move, at home or internationally.
- Enjoy a thoughtful, well-crafted rewards package that recognizes your contribution and amplifies your impact.
- Take good care of yourself and your family, with a wide range of health and wellbeing benefits including high-quality healthcare, prevention and wellness programs and at least 14 weeks' gender-neutral parental leave.
- Play an instrumental part in creating best practice within our manufacturing facility
- Our Waterford site is easily accessible from the M9 and offers excellent facilities including a subsidized restaurant and newly refurbished gym
If the description fits your experience and has aroused your interest, we encourage you to apply so we can get in contact with you!
Discover our Code of Conduct, that serves as the moral compass that guides us when chasing the miracles of science to improve people's lives. Please ensure to have read this document, before applying.
Better is out there. Better medications, better outcomes, better science. But progress doesn't happen without people - people from different backgrounds, in different locations, doing different roles, all united by one thing: a desire to make miracles happen. So, let's be those people.
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