Senior/Principal Technical Specialist Microbiology
- Recruiter
- Novacyt
- Location
- Camberley
- Salary
- Competitive
- Posted
- 04 Jun 2021
- Closes
- 22 Jun 2021
- Sectors
- Scientific & Pharmaceutical
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
Senior / Principal Technical Specialist (Microbiology)
Camberley
About Us
We are Novacyt, a rapidly growing diagnostics group specialising in infectious diseases. We have a number of successful brands and serve a large global customer base, from hospitals to large corporates.
Microgen is an expert in the development, manufacture and distribution of high-quality diagnostic products. These include gold standard molecular assays and a growing portfolio of rapid immunoassays for the detection of toxins, bacteria, viral antigens and key indicator proteins.
We are currently looking for a Senior / Principal Technical Specialist to join us in Camberley and support our Microbiology work.
The Benefits
- Competitive salary
- 25 days' annual leave
- Ability to buy and sell annual leave
- Cycle to work scheme
- Refer a friend scheme
- Life assurance
- Private medical insurance
- Group pension scheme
This is an incredible opportunity for a highly qualified scientific professional with industry and manufacturing experience to take on a fresh challenge working at the forefront of the sector.
You will have the chance to play a key role in supporting us to develop our manufacturing processes and remain ahead of the competition in the microbiology field.
It's an exciting time to join us as we make huge leaps in the fight against COVID-19 and have recently been awarded a Breakthrough of the Year award at the European Mediscience Awards 2020.
The Role
As a Senior / Principal Technical Specialist, you will be supporting our team's efforts to optimise and reformulate products. You will focus on a broad spectrum of immunoassays that make up part of our range of rapid diagnostic products.
Specifically, you will support manufacturing and QC through problem solving, scientific interrogation and process improvement, design, develop and implement new manufacturing processes and support new product implementation and group manufacturing scale up activities.
Your role will also involve:
- Characterising and analysing immunoassay products
- Planning and conducting experiments and recording and analysing data independently
- Understanding the product to improve manufacturing efficiency and quality
- Problem solving manufacturing and QC to drive improvement
- Problem solving manufacturing to implement new processes or alter the scale of production
- Presenting results to senior/other technical or research staff
- Supervising junior staff, including technicians
- Organising and undertaking product and QC studies
About You
To be considered as the Senior / Principal Technical Specialist, you will need:
- A Bachelor's degree and MSc or PhD in a related field
- At least three years' experience in industry
- At a minimum, one year of experience in a related manufacturing capacity
- Previous experience of latex agglutination technologies
- Previous experience in blood grouping analysis kits
- Strong microbiology knowledge
- The ability to plan experiments, problem solve and progress projects independently
- The ability to co-ordinate multiple projects with challenging timelines
- Strong leadership and communication skills
Experience of working within a quality system, particularly ISO 13485 would be beneficial to your application. Knowledge of regulatory standards for food testing would also be an advantage, as would previous statistical data analysis experience.
Previous experience in scientific product development or working alongside an R&D team to meet common goals of product performance and accurate manufacturing would be equally desirable.
Experience handling Hazard Group 2 organisms in a Category 2 Laboratory would be equally favourable, as would experience of microbiology and haematology diagnostic assays.
A working knowledge of HTA would be advantageous, as would knowledge of industrial manufacturing of latex agglutination products and blood grouping products.
Other organisations may call this role Principal Scientific Manufacturing Specialist, Lead Scientific Production Specialist, Senior Manufacturing Support Specialist, Scientific Production Advisor, or QC Specialist.
Webrecruit, Novacyt and Microgen are equal opportunities employers, value diversity and are strongly committed to providing equal employment opportunities for all employees and all applicants for employment. Equal opportunities are the only acceptable way to conduct business and we believe that the more inclusive our environments are, the better our work will be.
So, if you're seeking your next challenge as a Senior / Principal Technical Specialist, please apply via the button shown. This vacancy is being advertised by Webrecruit. The services advertised by Webrecruit are those of an Employment Agency.
Camberley
About Us
We are Novacyt, a rapidly growing diagnostics group specialising in infectious diseases. We have a number of successful brands and serve a large global customer base, from hospitals to large corporates.
Microgen is an expert in the development, manufacture and distribution of high-quality diagnostic products. These include gold standard molecular assays and a growing portfolio of rapid immunoassays for the detection of toxins, bacteria, viral antigens and key indicator proteins.
We are currently looking for a Senior / Principal Technical Specialist to join us in Camberley and support our Microbiology work.
The Benefits
- Competitive salary
- 25 days' annual leave
- Ability to buy and sell annual leave
- Cycle to work scheme
- Refer a friend scheme
- Life assurance
- Private medical insurance
- Group pension scheme
This is an incredible opportunity for a highly qualified scientific professional with industry and manufacturing experience to take on a fresh challenge working at the forefront of the sector.
You will have the chance to play a key role in supporting us to develop our manufacturing processes and remain ahead of the competition in the microbiology field.
It's an exciting time to join us as we make huge leaps in the fight against COVID-19 and have recently been awarded a Breakthrough of the Year award at the European Mediscience Awards 2020.
The Role
As a Senior / Principal Technical Specialist, you will be supporting our team's efforts to optimise and reformulate products. You will focus on a broad spectrum of immunoassays that make up part of our range of rapid diagnostic products.
Specifically, you will support manufacturing and QC through problem solving, scientific interrogation and process improvement, design, develop and implement new manufacturing processes and support new product implementation and group manufacturing scale up activities.
Your role will also involve:
- Characterising and analysing immunoassay products
- Planning and conducting experiments and recording and analysing data independently
- Understanding the product to improve manufacturing efficiency and quality
- Problem solving manufacturing and QC to drive improvement
- Problem solving manufacturing to implement new processes or alter the scale of production
- Presenting results to senior/other technical or research staff
- Supervising junior staff, including technicians
- Organising and undertaking product and QC studies
About You
To be considered as the Senior / Principal Technical Specialist, you will need:
- A Bachelor's degree and MSc or PhD in a related field
- At least three years' experience in industry
- At a minimum, one year of experience in a related manufacturing capacity
- Previous experience of latex agglutination technologies
- Previous experience in blood grouping analysis kits
- Strong microbiology knowledge
- The ability to plan experiments, problem solve and progress projects independently
- The ability to co-ordinate multiple projects with challenging timelines
- Strong leadership and communication skills
Experience of working within a quality system, particularly ISO 13485 would be beneficial to your application. Knowledge of regulatory standards for food testing would also be an advantage, as would previous statistical data analysis experience.
Previous experience in scientific product development or working alongside an R&D team to meet common goals of product performance and accurate manufacturing would be equally desirable.
Experience handling Hazard Group 2 organisms in a Category 2 Laboratory would be equally favourable, as would experience of microbiology and haematology diagnostic assays.
A working knowledge of HTA would be advantageous, as would knowledge of industrial manufacturing of latex agglutination products and blood grouping products.
Other organisations may call this role Principal Scientific Manufacturing Specialist, Lead Scientific Production Specialist, Senior Manufacturing Support Specialist, Scientific Production Advisor, or QC Specialist.
Webrecruit, Novacyt and Microgen are equal opportunities employers, value diversity and are strongly committed to providing equal employment opportunities for all employees and all applicants for employment. Equal opportunities are the only acceptable way to conduct business and we believe that the more inclusive our environments are, the better our work will be.
So, if you're seeking your next challenge as a Senior / Principal Technical Specialist, please apply via the button shown. This vacancy is being advertised by Webrecruit. The services advertised by Webrecruit are those of an Employment Agency.