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Quality Control Manager

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7 months ago
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Why you should apply for the Quality Control Manager / Laboratory Manager position:

Fast-Paced & Innovative: Enjoy variety and a challenge? This role offers daily engagement with cutting-edge products, ensuring no two days are the same. Expand your skills in a dynamic environment while contributing to exciting innovations.

Progression & Growth: With fast growth, this company offers ample opportunities for career development. Whether it's new skills, responsibility, or climbing the ladder, you'll progress in a business that values personal growth and development.

Make a Difference: In this close-knit team, your contributions will be recognised and valued. You'll see the impact of your work and be part of a supportive environment where achievements genuinely count.

Impressive Benefits: Enjoy great perks like a generous discretionary bonus and zero-cost healthcare. Benefit from excellent on-site facilities, allowing you to grab lunch, relax, or even get in some after-work exercise.

Fantastic Environment & Security: Work in a modern lab with top-of-the-line equipment backed by a market-leading international parent company, giving you long-term stability and support for your career.

What you'll do as the Quality Control Manager / Laboratory Manager

You will oversee the Quality Control (QC) laboratory, ensuring the smooth running of daily operations while adhering to Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) standards. Responsibilities will include: -

Leadership: Manage and mentor a team of analysts, helping them develop their skills and ensuring high-quality testing procedures.
Testing: Conducting and verifying analytical testing using HPLC and GC techniques.
Standards: Maintaining and improving lab standards, ensuring a clean and organised work environment.
Manufacturing: Collaborating with the production team to ensure schedules are met, enabling the business to operate efficiently.
Continuous Improvement: Driving continuous improvement by developing and validating new methods and techniques to enhance laboratory processes.What we're looking for from the Quality Control Manager / Laboratory Manager

Education: A degree in chemistry, analytical chemistry, forensic science, pharmaceutical science, or similar.
Experience: A background in the pharmaceutical industry, with a solid understanding of GMP. This could have been gained as a laboratory manager, QC manager, quality control manager, etc.
Skills: Hands-on experience with HPLC and GC and the willingness to carry out testing using them.
Leadership: Strong leadership skills with a proven ability to manage teams and prioritise effectively.What you'll receive:

Salary: £50,000 - £55,000, dependent on skills and experience.
Bonus: After probation, you will be eligible for a discretionary bonus of up to 20%, subject to personal and company performance.
Healthcare: After probation, zero cost-full private healthcare with the award-winning Vitality for you; the company will even pay the tax! Additional options are available for your immediate family.
Holidays: 33 days of holiday per year, including bank holidays.
Leisure & Convenience: On-site discounted gym, on-site cafeteria, and free parking.
Insurance & Pension: Death in service benefit of x4 of basic salary and a contributory pension scheme.Ready to make a difference?

This role is not just about managing day-to-day operations; it's about shaping the future of the laboratory, driving improvements, and having a direct hand in the company's success.

If you are a lab manager, laboratory manager, QC manager, quality control manager or similar, with knowledge of HPLC, GC, GMP, Pharma, and you're looking for a role where you can combine technical expertise with leadership in a highly respected and innovative company, Apply Today!

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