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Manufacturing Scientist

Speke
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CK Group are recruiting for a Manufacturing Scientist, to join a company in the animal health and pharmaceutical industry, on a contract basis for 12 months.

Salary:

£19.25 - £25.09 per hour PAYE.

Manufacturing Scientist Role:

To ensure technical excellence, controlling GMP-relevant documentation, and supporting efficient production to maintain and improve product process capability, quality, and compliance.
Maintain oversight of key batch processing records used at CMs, including SOP’s, Master Production Records, SPI’s.
Support generation and review Annual Product Reports (APRs) / PQR’s.
Working closely with the TS/MS Leads and Operations, support investigations related to deviation & complaints.
Support writing and write technical reports to convey status of key initiatives, and to communicate process metrics.
Your Background:

An advanced university degree or demonstrated career experience in life science or engineering (e.g. pharmacy, chemistry, chemical engineering, veterinary medicine, packaging engineering).
Requires a minimum of 5 years' experience in pharmaceutical or chemical production, technical services, and/or packaging (processes, materials, and design) within a technical production function.
Expertise in reviewing and writing technical reports. Can author technical documents to a high standard and is current with cGMP requirements in aspects of process validation, process change design and process monitoring compliance.
Strong working knowledge of applied statistics, quality systems and regulatory requirements across multiple health authorities.
Experienced in technical transfer or project management of production processes at manufacturing scale.
Company:

Our client specialises in animal health. They advance their vision of food and companionship, enriching life by developing innovative solutions that protect and enhance animal health.

Location: 

This role is based at our clients' site in Speke.

Apply:

It is essential that applicants hold entitlement to work in the UK. Please quote job reference (Apply online only) in all correspondence. 

Please note: 

This role may be subject to a satisfactory basic Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check.

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