Material Scientist
Material Scientist
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Job Description
This role is a permanent fulltime position working a 35 hour week flexibly between Monday Friday 07:00 19:00.
The purpose of this job is to perform characterisation and analysis of pharmaceutical raw materials and drug substances with respect to their material properties and produce accurate results within an acceptable timeframe.
- Perform routine and nonroutine analysis using traditional and modern analytical techniques as required to support investigational studies undertaking a range of physical and analytical testing.
- Manage receipt storage and disposal of development samples.
- Enter materials into Development Store and dispense from store as required.
- Support introduction of new equipment into functional area.
- Contribute to assigned project team by providing feedback on experimental protocols data summaries and initial interpretation of data according to assigned timelines.
- Ideal candidate will be someone who can demonstrate the ability to take initiative work independently provide solutions to analytical challenges and multitask.
- Identify any opportunities for improvement of quality and service and work with the wider team to implement continuous improvement.
- Ability to quickly learn new processes. Takes initiative to become local expert in areas where there is a gap in knowledge and shares that knowledge appropriately as required.
- Ability to form strong working relationships with colleagues.
- Seeks new ideas to make improvements within own area of control.
- Good team player organised accurate have strong documentation skills.
- Passionate about quality and customer service.
- Good communication skills both internally and externally. Ability to deliver an effective presentation on technical or nontechnical content when required.
Qualifications :
- A Degree in Pharmacy Pharmaceutical Science Materials Science Chemical Engineering or Chemistry is required.
- A fundamental knowledge of material science testing in respect of pharmaceutical actives and excipients and a knowledge of pharmaceutical manufacturing is essential.
- Experience operating and troubleshooting analytical equipment related to Material Science and Drug Product manufacture would be advantageous.
- Experience of Particle size analysis morphology (P)XRD and BET for surface area testing would be highly advantageous
- Proficient in using electronic media including MS Office and experience in use of electronic laboratory notebooks would be of advantage.
- Strong practical and analytical skills in a laboratory setting is required.
- Ability to problemsolve and troubleshoot is essential.
- Collaborative networking and interpersonal skills.
- Good verbal and written communication skills is essential.
- Able to document work clearly and concisely as well as understand and describe data / findings importance to others.
- Ability to work safely and comply with key quality systems to ensure data integrity.
- Good organisational and planning skills and an ability to deliver to agreed time and quality.
- Passionate about quality and customer service.
Additional Information :
Site Specific Benefits
- Working a 35 hour week flexibly between 07:00 19:00 Monday Friday.
- On site parking with access to EV charging points.
- Easy access to the transport network (Bus and train stops within 2 minutes of site with access to Liverpool city centre within 20 minutes)
- Free Gym facilities
Benefits
At Eurofins we are growing innovating and always learning. We celebrate the achievements of our employees through annual long service awards recognise our colleagues special life events and we are committed to charitable causes through global fundraising activities.
As a Eurofins employee you will benefit from:
- Reward and Recognition Scheme.
- Life Assurance (4 times annual salary)
- Enhanced Maternity Paternity and Adoption Pay Scheme
- Company Pension Plan
- Employee Assistance Programme 24/7 confidential support.
- Free car parking
- Worldwide career opportunities
- Everyone who joins our team also gets access to Perkbox allowing you to save money all year round. Whether its supermarket savings or days out the daily coffee or a summer holiday theres something to suit everyones lifestyle.
What Happens Next
Our people are the backbone of what we do so its incredibly important we find the right individuals to join us. As a potential new recruit youll be invited to meet the team in the form of an assessment centre or a staged interview process dependent on the role and its requirements this will give you the opportunity to see what working for Eurofins is really like and enable us to get you know your key skills and strengths.
Your data
As part of any recruitment process the company collects and processes personal data relating to job applicants. The company is committed to being transparent about how it collects and uses that data and to meeting its data protection obligations.
Closing Date
We reserve the right to close or extend this position depending on application numbers. Therefore we would urge candidates to submit an application as early as possible.
Due to the high volume of applications we receive please be aware that if you do not receive a response within 4 weeks of the vacancy expiry date unfortunately on this occasion your application has been unsuccessful.
We support your development! Do you feel you dont match 100% of the requirements Dont hesitate to apply anyway! Eurofins companies are committed to supporting your career development.
We embrace diversity! Eurofins network of companies believe in strength and innovation through diversity being an Equal Opportunity Employer. We prohibit discrimination against employees or applications based on gender identity and/or expression race nationality age religion sexual orientation disability and everything else that makes employees of Eurofins companies unique.
Sustainability matters to us! We are well on our way to achieving our objective of carbon neutrality by 2025 through a combination of emission reduction and compensation initiatives. We encourage our laboratory leaders to make sustainable changes at their local level and in addition to their initiatives we also count on our dedicated carbon reduction team to help us to achieve this goal!
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Remote Work :
No
Employment Type :
Fulltime
Employment Type
Full-time
