QC Technician

Do you enjoy being in an environment that is focused around delivering meaningful work at a dynamic pace? Our number one value is Patient First. Everything we do surrounds this philosophy and we see our employees as our primary asset when it comes to achieving this essential business value.

With this in mind we have an exciting opportunity for a QC Technician to join The Quality Control department in Swindon. Our Swindon facility houses our Zydis® fast dissolving tablet development and manufacturing operation as well as a CMC pharmaceutical analytical lab services unit that offers ASAP stability.

The QC Technician will be expected to perform the testing within the Quality Control group, to ensure that the company’s materials are tested, in accordance with the relevant specifications and with cGMP, and to a standard acceptable to any auditing bodies.

It will be the QC Technician’s job to ensure that materials and products are tested and documented in accordance with defined procedures and methods, and the requirements of cGMP (GLP).

As a QC Technician, it will be your responsibility to perform testing of incoming packaging materials, inspection of Finished Products, sampling of incoming materials, preparation of reagents, completion of basic laboratory testing (as such Physicals, FTIR and label checks), preparation of logbooks, labelling of materials and finished products, archiving, management of the retains samples and maintenance of the glassware.

The Job:

• To ensure that materials and products are tested and documented in accordance with defined procedures and methods, and the requirements of cGMP (GLP).
• That any deviations or anomalies are reported to support a Scientist 1 (or above) to resolve.
• Can review/check the work of others, if suitably trained.
• To ensure that you are trained appropriately for your duties, and that the training is documented and maintained.
• To participate in preparation for internal and external audits related to the QC activities.
• Use communication skills to exchange information, whilst remaining polite, courteous and respectful to colleagues and customers.
• Has an understanding of how the team integrates with others in the business.
• Impacts the quality of own work and maintenance of quality systems.
• To work in a manner compliant with EH&S through the identified and raising of SOS’s and Positive Safety behaviours.
• To perform any other tasks as required by line management.

The candidate:

• Has a good level of literacy, numeracy and integrity
• Work with a moderate degree of supervision, be self-motivated and propose initiative to introduce new ideas.
• Experience working within a GMP environment (advantageous)
• Ability to be able to work in a team.

Catalent offers rewarding opportunities to further your career! Join the global drug development and delivery leader and help us bring over 7,000 life-saving and life-enhancing products to patients around the world. Catalent is an exciting and growing international company where employees work directly with pharma, biopharma and consumer health companies of all sizes to advance new medicines from early development to clinical trials and to the market. Catalent produces more than 70 billion doses per year, and each one will be used by someone who is counting on us. Join us in making a difference.

Catalent is committed to the health and safety of its employees, visitors and the customers and patients we serve. As a result of the global pandemic, we have modified many of our recruitment and on-boarding processes to maintain everyone’s safety. The Human Resources teams will communicate all necessary safety processes and procedures throughout each stage.

personal initiative. dynamic pace. meaningful work.

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Catalent is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate based on any characteristic protected by local law.

If you require reasonable accommodation for any part of the application or hiring process due to a disability, you may submit your request by sending an email, and confirming your request for an accommodation and include the job number, title and location to DisabilityAccommodations@catalent.com. This option is reserved for individuals who require accommodation due to a disability. Information received will be processed by a U.S. Catalent employee and then routed to a local recruiter who will provide assistance to ensure appropriate consideration in the application or hiring process.

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