About this role

What can we offer you?

Apart from job satisfaction, we can offer you:

YOURSELF

- 25 days’ holiday (with the option to buy more)

HEALTH

- Private Healthcare
- Optional dental insurance, health assessments and health cash plans
- Cycle to Work scheme

WEALTH

- Company Pension Scheme, matching contributions up to 5% of salary
- Life assurance
- Annual staff bonus scheme
- Season ticket loans

Job Summary

In this role you'll perform QC method development and routine analysis of PET radiotracers to support clinical and pre-clinical studies in a GMP environment.

Job Responsibilities

- QC of assigned radiotracers according to project distribution and the scanning schedule.
- QC implementation of newly assigned radiotracers: method development, validation and documentation.
- Providing routine QC support to clinical and pre-clinical studies.
- Providing analytical chemistry support for precursor characterization, radiotracer and radioligand purification.
- Data processing including HPLC and GC.
- Documenting QC records to ensure compliance with cGMP.
- Raising and investigating Out Of Specification (OOS) results and Deviation within QMS.
- Presenting technical QC issues to internal and external audits, if required.
- Training and educating others in your area of expertise.
- Keeping up to date with relevant procedures and policies, as well as new analytical techniques and processes (small molecules and biological products).
- Presenting results to internal and external audiences, when required.
- Maintaining adequate stocks of laboratory supplies
- Completing routine laboratory tasks, e.g., preparing HPLC buffers, calibration standards, etc.

Required Skills:

- Minimum 2 years' experience in a QC laboratory.
- Experience in HPLC
- Experience in a GMP environment

Knowledge and Preferred Skills:

- Experience in GC is an advantage.
- Experience working with short-lived radioisotopes preferable (especially carbon-11 and fluorine-18) is desirable.
- Experience in change control is preferable.

Education:

- Undergraduate degree in Chemistry or a related scientific discipline