Quality Control Team Leader
Posted 4 days ago by Fluor and Energy Materials
Negotiable
Undetermined
Undetermined
Runcorn, Borough of Halton
Summary: The Quality Control Team Leader at Orbia will lead the Medical Products QC Team in Runcorn, UK, ensuring compliance and effectiveness in analytical and quality control functions for medical products. This role involves managing laboratory operations, collaborating with team leaders, and overseeing audits while driving continuous improvement projects. The position requires extensive experience in a QC laboratory operating under cGMP standards and a strong focus on fostering collaboration and achieving results.
Key Responsibilities:
- Manage shift analysts, analytical support chemists, and laboratory equipment to ensure timely analysis and release of cGMP regulated medical propellants.
- Plan analytical schedules and prioritize work during high demand periods.
- Collaborate on maintenance and calibration schedules for laboratory equipment.
- Support assurance of technical and cGMP standards in external acceptance testing laboratories.
- Assist in hosting cGMP and quality audits, leading laboratory tours and addressing auditor questions.
- Oversee stability study activities within the laboratory.
- Drive continuous improvement projects within the Medical Propellants Laboratory.
- Liaise with customers and suppliers for method transfer, analytical support, and troubleshooting.
- Ensure SHE standards and housekeeping within the Medical QC area.
- Support the Site Quality Manager with budgeting and monitoring medical QC expenditure.
Key Skills:
- Minimum HNC/HND in Chemistry; desirable degree in Chemistry or related subject.
- Extensive experience in a QC Laboratory operating to cGMP standards.
- Understanding of QC in the pharmaceutical industry.
- Experience managing a QC laboratory, preferably under cGMP standards.
- Strong leadership and collaboration skills.
- Ability to drive results and provide vision and direction.
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: Runcorn
Country: UK
Working Arrangements: undetermined
IR35 Status: undetermined
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: Other
You are purpose driven. Growth minded. Ready to stretch your potential. That’s the spirit of the community you will find at Orbia: where the purpose to advance life around the world drives our global team of over 23,000 every single day.
From creating solutions to deliver clean water, secure food supplies and reliable information to steering material advances that power the future of green and smart cities, transportation, and healthcare, we never settle for “good enough” when there’s an opportunity to make life better. Where purpose comes to life, it changes lives. This is what we live for.
Quality Control Team Leader
Fluor and Energy Materials, an Orbia business, is looking for a QC Team Leader to be based at Runcorn, Cheshire, UK.
Main Purpose of the Quality Control Team Leader
To lead the Medical Products QC Team to ensure that a compliant and effective Analytical and Quality Control function is maintained to support the manufacture and sale of Orbia F&EM’s Medical Products.
Quality Control Team Leader Main Responsibilities
- Manage shift analysts, the analytical support chemists and the laboratory equipment and systems to deliver timely analysis, reporting and ultimately release (by QA) of cGMP regulated medical propellants from the QC Laboratory.
- Plan the analytical schedules ensuring adequate cover is available to meet production and sales requirements. During periods of high demand, proactively prioritize the work, liaising with other functions to agree priorities.
- Collaborate and agree with the other Team Leaders and the analytical support chemists, the maintenance and calibration schedule of the laboratory equipment, ensuring equipment is available when needed and minimizing disruption of the production of medical propellants.
- Support the assurance that technical and cGMP standards of the external acceptance testing laboratory are appropriate and reflect the standards in the Medical Products QC Team.
- Assist in the hosting of cGMP and quality audits by regulatory bodies and customers, leading the tours of the laboratory and directly answering auditors’ questions and discussing any non-conformances raised.
- Oversee the stability study activities within the laboratory.
- Plan and drive continuous improvement projects within the Medical Propellants Laboratory with a view to benefiting the Medical Business and its supply of customers.
- Liaise directly with customers and suppliers to offer method transfer and implementation, analytical and technical support as well as troubleshooting activities.
- Be responsible for SHE standards, housekeeping within the Medical QC area.
- Support the Site Quality Manager with budgeting, monitoring and controlling medical QC expenditure.
Requirements for the Quality Control Team Leader
Qualifications
- Minimum: HNC/HND Chemistry.
- Desirable: Degree in Chemistry or related subject.
Knowledge/ Experience
- Extensive experience of working in a QC Laboratory operating to cGMP standards.
- Understanding of QC in the pharmaceutical industry.
- Experience of managing of a QC laboratory preferably one working to cGMP standards.
Behaviours that can help you succeed at Orbia:
- Develop yourself & Others
- Foster Collaboration & Inclusion
- Drive Results
- Provide Vision & Direction
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