PET QC Chemist
Description
What can we offer you?
Apart from job satisfaction, we can offer you:
YOURSELF
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25 days’ holiday (with the option to buy more)
HEALTH
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Private Healthcare
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Optional dental insurance, health assessments and health cash plans
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Cycle to Work scheme
WEALTH
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Company Pension Scheme, matching contributions up to 5% of salary
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Life assurance
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Annual staff bonus scheme
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Season ticket loans
Job Summary
In this role you'll perform QC method development and routine analysis of PET radiotracers to support clinical and pre-clinical studies in a GMP environment.
Job Responsibilities
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QC of assigned radiotracers according to project distribution and the scanning schedule.
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QC implementation of newly assigned radiotracers: method development, validation and documentation.
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Providing routine QC support to clinical and pre-clinical studies.
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Providing analytical chemistry support for precursor characterization, radiotracer and radioligand purification.
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Data processing including HPLC and GC.
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Documenting QC records to ensure compliance with cGMP.
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Raising and investigating Out Of Specification (OOS) results and Deviation within QMS.
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Presenting technical QC issues to internal and external audits, if required.
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Training and educating others in your area of expertise.
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Keeping up to date with relevant procedures and policies, as well as new analytical techniques and processes (small molecules and biological products).
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Presenting results to internal and external audiences, when required.
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Maintaining adequate stocks of laboratory supplies
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Completing routine laboratory tasks, e.g., preparing HPLC buffers, calibration standards, etc.
Required Skills
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Minimum 2 years' experience in a QC laboratory.
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Experience in HPLC
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Experience in a GMP environment
Knowledge and Preferred Skills
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Experience in GC is an advantage.
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Experience working with short-lived radioisotopes preferable (especially carbon-11 and fluorine-18) is desirable.
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Experience in change control is preferable.
Education:
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Undergraduate degree in Chemistry or a related scientific discipline