Bio Products Laboratory (BPL), part of Kedrion Biopharma, has a new vacancy for a Chemistry Team Leader to join the Quality Department located in Elstree, Hertfordshire.
This exciting first-line management role within a laboratory setting will suit someone with experience supervising staff overseeing day-to-day operations and working to GMP standards.
Duties & Responsibilities will include:
Authority and decision making:
* Planning day-to-day work across the department.
* Assisting with the delivery of departmental objectives.
* Ensuring that KPIs are met.
* Raising and leading Minor + Major + Critical deviations.
* Supporting Critical deviations.
* Having awareness of all quality records within own area.
* Providing the necessary support for quality records to ensure they are completed within required timelines.
* Ensuring OOSs when reported by the department are raised and investigated in accordance with procedure, supporting completion of investigations (Phase I and II) to ensure the right outcome is achieved.
* Tracking/trending of OOSs.
* Recommending change controls and leading and implementing agreed actions.
* Delivering the training programme for the section through departmental metrics and business needs.
* Empowering the team to identify the need for procedure updates and ensuring correct procedures are in place. Reviewing complex procedural updates and being responsible for approving less complex procedures.
* Ensuring sufficient resources are available for routine work and any additional work taken on by the department, communicating to line management when resource limitations exist.
* Assisting with recruitment, such as identifying recruitment needs, reviewing CVs for suitable candidates, performing interviews, and liaising with HR regarding selection and onboarding of successful candidates.
* Handling of issues.
Budget / Capital Expenditure:
* Monitoring of spending on consumables and equipment.
* Identifying the need for and raising orders.
* Contributing to preparation of annual OPEX and CAPEX plans.
People Management:
* Responsible for the management of Senior Analysts, Analyst II, and Analyst I staff.
* Undertaking annual performance reviews, performance management, disciplinaries (up to verbal warning), training, and mentoring.
* Delivery of the training plan for the section.
* Ensuring that effective and target-driven one-to-ones are delivered for all grades of analyst.
* Managing teams working multiple shift patterns.
* Managing teams working in laboratories and process areas.
* Supervising third-party contractors e.g., servicing of laboratory equipment, testing production areas.
Project Management:
Delivering agreed projects within the laboratory and across manufacturing.
Skills & experience to help you within the role:
* BSc in relevant subject (or equivalent experience).
* Demonstrated management skills.
* Planning and organisation skills to be able to run a section in terms of samples and staffing.
* Capacity to grasp concepts easily.
* Computer literate - competent in the use of Microsoft Office, particularly Word and Excel at an intermediate level.
* Able to ensure high levels of quality are achieved.
* Able to communicate clearly and persuasively with the team.
* Problem-solving.
* Extensive laboratory experience and demonstrated competency in managing others.
* Competent in 70% of testing performed within the department.
* Good knowledge/understanding of GMP/GLP.
* Experience of managing or supervising laboratory analysts.
* Experience in OOS and invalid assay investigations.
* Experience of raising, completing, and investigating quality records.
* Requirement for business travel.
* Offering support to the department outside of normal hours.
* Requirement to represent the business outside of BPL.
In return we offer:
We're looking for highly motivated and experienced people to drive the business forward. If you are passionate about Human Resources, we want to hear from you.
* Competitive salary
* Bonus
* 25 days holiday
* Pension
* Life insurance
* On-site parking
* Employee assistance programme
* My Healthy Advantage phone app
* Virtual GP
* Cycle to work scheme
* Subsidised canteen
Department 451 Chemistry Locations Elstree
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