Role: -
Senior HPLC Analyst (Equipment team)
Location: -
Hertfordshire- onsite 5 days a week
Salary: -
Competitive salary, pension contribution (3% employee/5% employer), Life assurance, professional subscriptions, retail discount vouchers, cycle to work, paid time off to volunteer, professional development, wellbeing initiatives, employee assistance programmes and online GP services.
Russell- Taylor Group have a fantastic opportunity for a Technical Expert within HPLC to become an Equipment Team Leader of a small group of four. Our client is a global testing business, with this site focusing specifically on pharmaceutical analysis.
Responsibilities
- Planning, resourcing, overseeing, coordinating and scheduling the responsibilities of the equipment team
- Provide in-house service to ensure timely routine maintenance, ad-hoc repairs, qualification and calibration of analytical and production equipment across the business, specifically HPLC equipment.
- Ensure that planned and unplanned repair and servicing activities are performed efficiently.
- Ensure that any repairs are raised through the equipment Helpdesk- resolving issues in a timely manner to ensure that downtime is minimised.
- Monitor team performance against KPIs
- Develop in-depth and specialist technical knowledge on a broad range of equipment including HPLC, Moisture Meters, Flow Meters, NGI's, Temperature Probes, Balances, and Pipettes.
- Take a lead in procurement of new equipment.
- Carry out tender processes and present to management for review.
- Relocate existing equipment and lead the procurement of new equipment.
- Ensure remote monitoring data for temperature-controlled equipment and environments are properly reviewed.
- Ensure quality records are completed in a timely manner.
- Provide updates to management relating to team performance, equipment issues and ongoing projects.
The Person
- Educated to ideally degree level in a scientific discipline.
- Experience of working with, maintaining and troubleshooting laboratory equipment, specifically HPLC.
- Experience working within GMP would be advantageous
- Ability to be flexible to meet the needs of the business
- Management/Supervisory experience would be a bonus.
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