Biotechnology Jobs

• Guildford
• Mid-level
• Permanent

Hands-on laboratory role analysing pharmaceutical samples including APIs, medicines, herbal products and packaging for MHRA Laboratories. Uses HPLC, GC, GC/LC-MS, IR, Raman, UV, dissolution and wet chemistry, with responsibility for drafting reports, validating data, equipment calibration and maintaining an ISO/IEC 17025 quality system. Works within a team of around 30 analytical scientists, independently coordinating project workloads.

Microsoft Word · Microsoft Excel

• Macclesfield
• On-site
• Senior · manages people
• Permanent

Acts as the key analytical point of contact for clients, leading the transfer of commercial analytical methods across multiple laboratory sites and ensuring their robustness, performance and compliance for drug substances. Coordinates analytical activities, supports change programmes and market access projects, and leads a small team of scientists while working with Quality, Regulatory and Manufacturing. Based at a pharmaceutical client facility in Macclesfield.

• Stevenage
• Hybrid

Predominantly laboratory-based role planning, executing and interpreting LC-MS and LC-MS/MS experiments to characterise biopharmaceutical molecules. You will develop and troubleshoot analytical methods, investigate product quality attributes and post-translational modifications, and support early-phase programmes through forced degradation and comparability studies. Works across Discovery and CMC Development teams, with hybrid working available.

Protein Metrics · JMP · SIMCA

• Macclesfield
• Permanent

Provide analytical support for drug substance manufacturing and method development, running project analysis, forced degradation studies and proof-of-concept validation. Author and review Analytical Testing Plans, method protocols and validation protocols, using HPLC and GC within a GMP-regulated lab. Work independently and in a multidisciplinary team, communicating findings to internal and external stakeholders.

HPLC · GC · NMR +4

• London
• On-site
• Entry level
• Internship

A 12-month industrial placement in Pfizer's Peptide Drug Product Development group, working alongside formulation scientists and analytical chemists. The role involves preparing and evaluating peptide formulations, running solubility and stability studies, and gaining hands-on experience with HPLC/UPLC and biophysical characterisation methods.

HPLC · UPLC

• Oxford
• On-site
• Mid-level

Perform routine cGMP Quality Control testing using HPLC, UPLC, GC, UV spectroscopy, DLS and Karl Fischer analysis, supporting raw materials, in-process materials, drug substance, product release and stability programs. Coordinate and execute global GMP stability studies, manage sample lifecycles in LabVantage LIMS, trend data statistically, and author protocols and regulatory documentation. The role is 100% onsite at the Harwell facility and involves collaboration with manufacturing, QA, regulatory and external testing partners.

LabVantage · LIMS · Generative AI

• Stevenage
• Lead

Develops and deploys cheminformatics and machine learning models on large proprietary datasets to guide go/no-go decisions across drug-discovery programmes. Embeds predictive models into multidisciplinary teams spanning DMPK, toxicology and safety pharmacology, and prototypes LLM-driven agent workflows for design-make-test-analyse cycles.

ChemAxon · RDKit · Pipeline Pilot +2

• Cambridge, United States
• Hybrid · 3 days in office
• Director

Lead end-to-end clinical trial material planning, vendor management, packaging, labeling, inventory and global distribution for an AI-first drug discovery company. Act as the clinical supply authority within a lean Pharmaceutical Sciences & CMC team, building scalable systems and vendor networks while partnering closely with Clinical Operations and CROs.

IRT · RTSM

• Swindon
• Entry level
• Internship

Support the QC Chemistry team by performing routine analytical testing of incoming goods, intermediates and finished products under cGMP conditions. Duties include stock control of reagents and reference standards, equipment checks, calibration and preventative maintenance, reagent preparation, glassware washing, waste disposal and maintaining technical documentation and training records.

pH Meters · Balances

• Warrington
• On-site
• Senior
• Permanent

Contributes to manufacturing sciences by ensuring manufacturing quality, process validation and regulatory compliance for biopharmaceutical and diagnostic products. Develops and implements CMC strategies, standardises procedures and drives process improvements, while mentoring technical staff and leading cross-functional teams in a regulated GMP environment.

FDA · EMA

• Fordham
• On-site
• Senior
• Permanent

Hands-on role independently developing, optimising and validating analytical methods using LC-MS, troubleshooting complex analytical challenges and building new testing solutions for specialist laboratories. You own method development projects from feasibility through validation and implementation, working across the business in a busy commercial testing environment under ISO 17025.

LC-MS · GC-MS/MS · HRAM

• Oxford
• On-site
• Permanent

Conducts class-targeted metabolomics and metabolic engineering of plant natural products, using extraction, purification, mass spectrometry and computational structural assignment to support cell-based production of food and medicines. Works in a highly collaborative institute alongside AI and robotics teams on high-throughput analytical procedures, with stage-gated milestones and an active role in IP generation.

• Oxford
• On-site
• £40,178 – £48,700 pa
• Entry level
• Contract

Join a Gates Foundation-funded programme developing nanopore-based sensing platforms to detect volatile organic compounds in biological samples, part of the multidisciplinary Decoding Olfaction collaboration. The role combines chemical biology and biophysics to advance single-molecule sensing, with the goal of enabling personalised and continuous health monitoring. Multiple fixed-term postdoc positions are available in a collaborative academic and industrial environment.

• Livingston
• Entry level

Performs and documents analytical procedures in a regulated laboratory, running routine data analysis and checking results against tolerances. Prepares data for LIMS upload, supports quality investigations and deviations, and calibrates and maintains lab equipment. Also trains other lab personnel and escalates unusual results to senior staff.

LIMS