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.
We are currently looking to recruit a Quality Control Analytical Scientist within the QC Department at our site in Keele, Staffordshire. The successful candidate will be responsible for performing a range of testing procedures for the release of raw materials, bulk drugs, final drug products, research grade and high -quality products, process intermediates. The laboratory operates in compliance with GMP standards and industrial and regulatory guidance.
Main duties will include:
- Testing of Raw/Starting Materials
- Execution of allocated Laboratory activities within set timeframes
- Verify equipment performance as required for GMP activities
- Responsible for own work schedule within plans set by supervisor
- To ensure GMP compliance is maintained, as defined in the Company Quality system, for all assigned programmes of work for both contracted and routine operations
- To identify and report quality or compliance deficiencies to supervisor or QA
- To provide information to the Commercial Function if requested for both new business opportunities and for on-going contracts
- Receive training in new procedures as required for laboratory efficiency and personal development
- Provide training to less experienced staff in techniques where competency has been attained
- To contribute to initiatives to improve the performance and efficiency of the Quality Group and the Keele site as a whole
- Perform other duties that from time-to-time management will assign
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.
About Charles River
Charles River is an early-stage contract research organization (CRO). We have built upon our foundation of laboratory animal medicine and science to develop a diverse portfolio of discovery and safety assessment services, both Good Laboratory Practice (GLP) and non-GLP, to support clients from target identification through preclinical development. Charles River also provides a suite of products and services to support our clients’ clinical laboratory testing needs and manufacturing activities. Utilizing this broad portfolio of products and services enables our clients to create a more flexible drug development model, which reduces their costs, enhances their productivity and effectiveness to increase speed to market.
With over 20,000 employees within 110 facilities in 20 countries around the globe, we are strategically positioned to coordinate worldwide resources and apply multidisciplinary perspectives in resolving our client’s unique challenges. Our client base includes global pharmaceutical companies, biotechnology companies, government agencies and hospitals and academic institutions around the world.
At Charles River, we are passionate about our role in improving the quality of people’s lives. Our mission, our excellent science and our strong sense of purpose guide us in all that we do, and we approach each day with the knowledge that our work helps to improve the health and well-being of many across the globe. We have proudly supported the development of 86% of the drugs approved by the FDA in 2021.
At Charles River Laboratories, we recognize and recruit all talent. We are a company committed to the principle of diversity and inclusion and work daily in this direction.
For more information, please visit www.criver.com.