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At Charles River, we are passionate about improving the quality of people’s lives. When you join our global family, you will help create healthier lives for millions of patients and their families.
Charles River employees are innovative thinkers, who are dedicated to continuous learning and improvement. We will empower you with the resources you need to grow and develop in your career.
As a Charles River employee, you will be part of an industry-leading, customer-focused company at the forefront of drug development. Your skills will play a key role in bringing life-saving therapies to market faster through simpler, quicker, and more digitalized processes. Whether you are in lab operations, finance, IT, sales, or another area, when you work at Charles River, you will be the difference every day for patients across the globe.
Job summary
We are currently looking to recruit a Quality Control Microbiologist within the QC Department at our site in Keele, Staffordshire. The successful candidate will be responsible for supporting and participating in the GMP environmental testing regimes within the Manufacturing facility and in related microbiological and cell culture activities within the QC group.
Profile and requirements
Main duties will include
- Perform water testing and to support full environmental monitoring of the GMP facility.
- Generate data using the methods developed and record it in a way that allows the ongoing status of clean rooms and equipment to be assessed and reviewed
- Perform gowning qualification of operators
- Perform testing and release of raw materials and equipment for GMP operations
- Support fermenter, autoclave and media fill validations.
- To apply standard microbiological methods to characterise cell banks and perform microbial identification
- Ensure that all work is carried out safely and in compliance with the requirements of HSE and cGMPs
- Report any environmental excursions or other deficiencies promptly in accordance with standard procedures
- To ensure GMP compliance is maintained, as defined in the Company Quality system, for all assigned programmes of work both contracted and routine operations.
- To identify and report quality or compliance deficiencies and suggest remedies
You will ideally be educated to degree level or equivalent in a scientific related subject, ideally Microbiology. Previous GMP experience, knowledge and experience of clean rooms, environmental monitoring and water sampling/testing techniques is desirable, although not essential.
In addition, you will be able to demonstrate strong written, verbal communication skills and practical skills.
This role is office based in Keele, Staffordshire.
About Corporate Functions
The Corporate Functions provide operational support across Charles River in areas such as Human Resources, Finance, IT, Legal, Sales, Quality Assurance, Marketing, and Corporate Development. They partner with their colleagues across the company to develop and drive strategies and to set global standards. The functions are essential to providing a bridge between strategic vision and operational readiness, to ensure ongoing functional innovation and capability improvement.
