Pioneering trusted medical solutions to improve the lives we touch: Convatec is a global medical products and technologies company, focused on solutions for the management of chronic conditions, with leading positions in advanced wound care, ostomy care, continence care, and infusion care. With around 10,000 colleagues, we provide our products and services in almost one hundred countries, united by a promise to be forever caring. Our solutions provide a range of benefits, from infection prevention and protection of at-risk skin, to improved patient outcomes and reduced care costs. Group revenues in 2022 were over $2 billion. The company is a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index (LSE: CTEC). To learn more about Convatec, please visit http://www.convatecgroup.com.
We are guided by our five core values, which shape the way we work, every day: Improve Care, Deliver Results, Grow Together, Own It and Do What's Right.
Position OverviewThe role is to support manufacturing by conducting Analytical Chemistry testing in line with the required standard and ensuring that all laboratory practices meet the regulatory and procedural requirements. Ensure compliance within laboratories. Embrace and drive Convatec's core mission, values, and priorities.
Key ResponsibilitiesMaintain calibration and equipment maintenance schedule for all analytical chemistry equipment.Initiate laboratory out-of-specification investigations, include Senior Analyst or Laboratory Team Leader where necessary.Follow validated methods, use approved laboratory techniques, and perform routine calculations.Collect trend data, and report trends to Senior Analyst/Laboratory Team Leader.Maintain laboratory metrics.Maintain waste disposal in line with EHS guidelines.Utilise the SAP business system to facilitate product release.Compliance with GMP requirements and uphold these standards.Compliance with EHS requirements and uphold these standards.Perform analytical testing for routine in-process analysis and finished product.Support the request testing and project work.Seek and deliver CI opportunities across the site.Support method validations to adhere to the analytical chemistry test methods schedule.Adhere to legal, corporate, and site legislation.Maintain operational equipment within a validated state.Perform physical laboratory testing when required. Key RequirementsSuccessful participation in a quality system in a complex and regulated manufacturing environment.Exposure to data management and interpretation of the data sets.Excellent written skills which have been used to author both technical reports and quality documents (specification and procedural-based).Demonstrates working in a fast-paced environment where changes are embraced and implemented.Demonstrated ability to effectively work and communicate in a cross-function environment.Knowledge of ISO standards and FDA regulations.Knowledge of continuous improvement/quality assurance methods and techniques.Coaching and mentoring of laboratory technicians. Qualifications/EducationEducated to degree level, or equivalent, within chemistry discipline.Demonstrated experience within an analytical chemistry laboratory.Knowledge of ISO13485 and 21 CR 820 and Pharmacopeia's references.Understanding of cGMPs and cGLPs and quality systems in a regulated environment. Working ConditionsWorking 5 days a week in the QC laboratory, from Monday to Friday 9:00 to 16:30. One lunch 30-minute break is to be taken each shift, starting between 12:00 and 12:30, though may be shifted minimally as per lab practicality (e.g. to favour analyst presence when samples are to come out of ovens or sample sets are to finish).
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