Biologics Manufacturing - Associate
Keele, GB, ST5 5SP
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.
Job Summary
Our manufacturing site in Keele, is offering an opportunity for a Biologics Manufacturing Associate.
Responsible for the support and maintenance of the GMP facility. Responsibilities will include; daily and campaign cleaning within the GMP facility, ensuring that operational, quality and Health & Safety targets are met as required by the Company.
To ensure that all activities performed are in line with the Code of Conduct.
What you’ll be doing:
• Maintenance of the GMP facility including daily and campaign cleaning.
• Compliant completion of GMP documentation.
• Materials preparation and autoclaving for GMP contracts.
• Responsibility for performing autoclave performance testing.
• Materials and equipment transfer as part of project start up activities.
• Responsibility for the management of small equipment calibration/re-calibration.
• Working flexibly to support the teams delivering scientific processes within the GMP facility.
• To perform manufacturing operations within the appropriate current Good Manufacturing Practice (cGMP) standards, ensuring compliance is maintained, as defined in the Company Quality system.
• To adhere to proper compliance with Health and Safety of all operations within the team, in accordance with the Health, Safety and Environmental policies and procedures.
• To work within the companies policies for timesheet allocation codes for assigned programmes of work and in house activities.
• Perform other duties that from time-to-time management will assign.
Skills and Experience:
• Education: Minimum 5+ GCSE grade A-C including English Language and Mathematics or equivalent qualification.
• Experience: Previous practical laboratory experience is desirable.
• Other: Able to demonstrate strong written, verbal communication skills and practical skills. A self-starter, who shows initiative and is a team player. Able to work flexibly.
Profile and Requirements
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.