THE POSITION
You will be responsible for production related activities across the Pirbright manufacturing facility; enabling the large scale production of Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD) and Bluetongue Virus (BTV) antigens and finished products in a timely and cost effective manner - fully compliant with all applicable rules and regulations, like EU, UK and company good manufacturing practice (GMP), bio-safety and Health and Safety Executive (HSE) regulations. You will also need to formulate antigens for customers both on site and external, abiding with Biosafety and Environment, Health and Safety (EHS) regulations.
You will need to be fully conversant with production requirements to anticipate specific needs and organise resources as required. You will maintain and deliver washed and sterile equipment. You will carry out antigen control operations as required with the inclusions of handling liquid nitrogen and dry ice, formulating trial blends and performing sterility testing.
This role is vital to the production of FMD and BTV antigens and final product that in turn provides critical products to market. This process is business critical to the supply of vaccines to customers worldwide.
We are hiring two Permanent full-time positions and two 15-month Fixed Term Contract positions. All positions are fully site based at our manufacturing site in Pirbright.
TASKS & RESPONSIBILITIES
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