Validation Technician - Pharmaceutical GMP

Job description

- Validation Technician
- Worthing, West Sussex
- Competitive Salary and Benefits (depending on experience)
- Unique Pharmaceutical company offering strong career progression opportunities
- Excellent opportunity for someone with GMP experience who wants to develop in Validation
- Broad role across Validation of manufacturing & laboratory equipment, computer systems, cleaning, sterilisation, sanitisation and other GMP activities
- Steriles experience preferred
- Knowledge of Validation lifecycle preferred

Summary

A brand new role has arisen for a Validation Technician within one of the South Coast’s leading and most innovative Pharmaceutical companies. If you have a solid grounding in GMP and a background in Validation activities across processes such as manufacturing, CSV, sterilisation / aseptic operations, laboratory equipment etc, then this will be an excellent long-term career opportunity. You will undertake a broad range of responsibilities across different buildings and we are looking for a hard-working, personable individual who has strong analytical skills and attention to detail.

The company offers a broad salary range and will consider people at a more junior level as well as with more extensive experience in a validation role.

The Company

A pioneering Europe-based Pharmaceutical organisation specialising in the treatment and prevention of allergies. Their unique focus is on the vaccination and prevention of conditions such as hay fever and their products are fascinating, complex and ever-changing. The company employs around 150 people in Worthing across different GMP, GLP and GDP areas and has an excellent reputation for providing career development opportunities, challenging and engaging project work and a pleasant, vibrant working environment.

The Role

Using your background in GMP operations to the full, you will undertake a broad role to conduct and report on a variety of validation activities across a few sites, covering manufacturing, laboratory and other process environments. You will prepare and execute validation protocols and author validation reports for routine activities and individual projects. Alongside a small team, you will own part of the requalification schedule and ensure that validation is completed on time, working in conjunction with different on-site groups to facilitate timely and correct processes.

You will encounter high-grade clean rooms and sterile areas, sterilisation equipment (autoclaves etc), temperature-controlled stores, complex lab equipment and a variety of software and systems. This will be an intellectually stimulating role that requires precision, good time management and the ability to handle and report complex data.

Benefits 

- Very competitive salary (to be discussed on application)
- 25 days' holiday
- Stakeholder pension plan
- Life insurance scheme
- Long term disability scheme
- BUPA medical plan

Experience

The successful candidate will have a strong scientific / technical / engineering background (ideally a degree), with experience gained in a GMP environment. Knowledge of sterile / aseptic processing would be highly advantageous, as would knowledge of validation processes and the validation lifecycle. You must have strong IT skills, including the ability to scrutinise and present data. You will also need to be able to demonstrate problem-solving, time management and scheduling skills.

Keywords

Validation technician, pharmaceutical, pharma, GMP, GLP, GXP, GDP, CSV, computer systems validation, PC, sterile, aseptic, manufacturing, lab, laboratory, qualification, requalification, IQ, OQ, PQ

This is a permanent role