Laboratory Technician - PG3961

The Laboratory Technician role would be working within the Product Development Team at Reading.

Responsibilities include:

• Conform to site and lab Health, Safety and Environment requirements.
  
• Comply with principles of Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP).
  
• Provide high quality standardised methodology execution in accordance to our client and/or external authority requirements such as:
  
• Batch production records.
  
• Sample testing and qualification.
  
• Equipment calibrations.
  
• Adherence to global/site methods and site SOP's.
  
• Ensure timely delivery of testing data and reports for testing.
  
• Sample submission logging into Electronic Laboratory Notebooks (ELN).
  
• Provide communication to Supervisor and support timely investigation of all compliance findings, retests and test deviation investigations and actions.
  
• Collaborate with supervisor on Quality and Safety inspection findings and support execution of any resulting improvement programs.
  
• Highlight to the supervisor any problems associated with work which might pose a hazard or impact quality.
  
• Highlight to the Laboratory Supervisor of any observed compliance outages within the laboratory.
  
• Have personal ownership for quality of work and working with supervisor to implement recommended improvements.
  
• Scheduling and tracking for all agreed activities.

• BSC in a scientific field and/or laboratory experience, preferably including broader industry experience.
  
• Recent experience in chemical industry with good manufacturing and laboratory practice knowledge (e.g. quality control).
  
• Good knowledge of analytical techniques used for product development and quality controls.

• Experience in a Wet chemical/Analytical/QC laboratory including batch making techniques.
  
• Experience of pH, Viscosity, Rheology and colour measures.
  
• Strong Good Science aptitude and good practices focus.
  
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written with a passion for accuracy and attention to detail.
  
• A proactive thinker who can anticipate future issues and propose pragmatic solutions.
  
• Excellent interpersonal skills - must be able to effectively interact with a team environment of different Nationalities and at different levels within the company.
  
• Strong analytical thinking and problem solving.
  
• Good Computer literacy.

• BSC in a scientific field and/or laboratory experience, preferably including broader industry experience.
  
• Recent experience in chemical industry with good manufacturing and laboratory practice knowledge (e.g. quality control).
  
• Understanding and experience of Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP).