Analytical Development Scientist

Analytical Development Scientist

About Curia

Curia is experiencing growth and we have a great opportunity for an Analytical Scientist to join our team at our Glasgow site. Curia global is a contract research, development and manufacturing organisation (CDMO), offering products and services across the drug development spectrum to help our partners turn their ideas into real-world impact. We partner closely with pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies to boost business performance and improve patients’ lives. At Curia Scotland we have the opportunity to work across early discovery and development through manufacturing, our suite of custom solutions allows us to tailor every engagement to our customer precise needs. Our capabilities are always growing, driven by our talented, experienced team and continued investment in cutting-edge technologies.

We take great pride in a track record that stands among the best in the industry. No matter what we’re working on, we trust our Curia team to deliver every solution to the highest quality.

Our Analytical and Development Team

We are driven to promote from within and due to an internal move, we now have an opportunity for an experienced Analytical Research Scientist with minimum 3 years industry lab experience to join our established team. This role will be working on a variety of projects in the laboratory and work as part of our established team.

Curia Glasgow's development teams specialise in the analysis of early phase drug products, primarily for parenteral administration. The development team are responsible for acquiring, validating and in some cases developing the associated analytical methods for assay and related substances. These methods include HPLC-UV, SEC, ELSD, CAD, UPLC, MS and GC. We also offer full range of compendial testing to support analysis of varied formulations. We are equipped with a dedicated cytotoxic suite and provides extensive technical expertise in the analysis, validation and transfer of analytical methods for liquid and lyophilized sterile dosage forms. The type of compound is varied; the team can handle small and large molecules, controlled substances, ADC’s, LNP’s, liposomes, peptides and Nano suspensions.

We offer great training and a strong support from a technical and team perspective, as well as ongoing professional development.

Our Glasgow site has a friendly culture with a fast-paced work ethic and lots of employee engagement activities that bring the teams together with fun, games and competitions. We are active in rewarding great work with prizes and quarterly, annual global and site awards to show appreciation for our valued employees who consistently deliver our values and be the conduit that connects ideas to solutions and continue to help us make Curia the great place to work. Curia prides itself in its company values with all members of staff striving to adhere to these Curiosity, Urgency, Respect, Integrity and Accountability ensuring high quality delivery for our clients and their patients.

If this sounds like a company you would like to join and be part of contributing to the creation and distribution of treatments that enhance and save lives. Ensuring that medicines are more accessible, then apply today to be part of our growth journey to help us take Curia to even greater heights.

Key Skills and Competencies

To be successful in this position we expect you will have an excellent level of data recording and report writing with a high level of interpersonal skills where we will see you liaising with other departments and our clients. We are a fast-paced business, held to strict deadlines, therefore we expect you to work with the team to display good problem-solving skills, be well organised, show accountability for your workload and be driven to complete work to a high standard and to deadlines provided.

Further expectations noted below:

• A positive will do attitude and a friendly approachable manner is expected with the ability to be resilient due busy and challenging periods.
• Collaborative and strong team working skills
• An open mind towards change with a drive for continuous learning and improvements.
• During client interactions, a professional manner should be demonstrated at all times with a drive to go over and above to ensure an excellent standard of service is being delivered
• We encourage all our team members to join in on employee engagement activities to get to know other colleagues.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Familiarity with the concepts of a Quality Management System, GMP quality standards and regulatory requirements for clinical development of Drug Product.
• Experienced in good laboratory practices, safe working practices and good recording practices.
• Have a good depth of knowledge of U/HPLC and associated chromatographic software and be able to carry out basic troubleshooting/suggest resolutions to problems.
• Good problem-solving skills and application of critical thinking
• Be able to demonstrate working knowledge of all analytical techniques required to perform routine analysis such as KF, GC, osmolality, HIAC, DLS, plate reader.
• Have confidence to take ownership of lab equipment responsibilities and interact with providers.
• Be able to communicate effectively (orally and written) with multiple stakeholders including team members, senior leadership team and clients.
• Be able to report and discuss on complex data sets both internally and externally with clients.
• Deliver a high standard of completed reports on time with minimal corrections including data interpretation and suggestions.
• Writing COSHH and risk assessments relevant to role.
• Everything we do has to deliver the highest quality across our company for our clients. You will be required to work in compliance to industry standard quality principles which will consist of:
• Reading, understanding and demonstrating practices from existing SOP’s and drafting improvements.
• Continuously monitoring the quality of your own work to ensure that all data produced (including the recording of raw data) is fully compliant and fit for purpose in maintaining a quality service.
• You will be expected to learn and work within the compliance standards with all aspects of the CURIA Quality Management System.
• Being able to demonstrate working knowledge of the principles of GMP/ICH and how it relates to the role.
• You will support your team and other Curia teams on technical work.
• You will be able to perform routine analysis to support formulation development and assist in the transfer of methods to QC, in compliance with Curia Glasgow procedures.
• We would like to develop and give the opportunity for our Analytical Scientists to write and present scientific data in updates for clients and actively engage in technical discussion.
• Being able to identify deviations and faults in analysis or instrument performance and determine the appropriate response.
• Assist with investigations into technical challenges at a laboratory level.
• Continuously develop to build technical expertise in a variety of relevant techniques to enhance troubleshooting/technical skills.
• Training of newer scientists to CURIA.

Excellent Benefitsincluding: up to 9% contributed to pension, private healthcare, dental scheme, 4x salary death in service, 34 rising to 39 holidays, holiday purchase scheme, gym contribution, cycle to work, employee assistance programme and much more.

Salary depending on experience – Competitive Salary based on skillset.

Monday to Friday inGlasgow, G20 0XA.Hours: 9am to 5pm.