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Microbiology Laboratory Technician Runcorn

Fresenius Kabi Limited

Full Time Runcorn 21000 - 24613 GBP ANNUAL Today

Job description

Overview:

Are you a process driven individual, with experience in laboratories or a pharmaceutical environment?

Due to business growth, we are looking for a Microbiology Laboratory Technician in our Laboratory department. This position is a temporary contract for 18 months. As a Laboratory Technician, you would be responsible for monitoring the aseptic compounding centre in line with GMP.

This role will be 37.5 per hours a week Monday-Friday, 7:00am - 3:00pm alternating with 3pm - 11pm on a weekly basis and it will be based in Runcorn.

Fresenius Kabi is a global healthcare company that specializes in lifesaving medicines and technologies for infusion, transfusion and clinical nutrition. The company's products and services are used to help care for critically and chronically ill patients.

With a corporate philosophy of 'caring for life', the company's goal is to improve the patient's quality of life.

Our product portfolio included a comprehensive range of IV generic drugs, infusion therapies and clinical nutrition products as well as the medical devices for administering these products.

Responsibilities:

Carrying out environmental monitoring (EM) program of the aseptic compounding centre including taking daily samples within production cleanroom areas, incubation, plate reading and identification of isolates
Documenting and data entry of all results, following good documentation practices
Conducting investigations into EM excursions and non reconciliations, generation and communication of KPIs, trending reports and state of control of compounding centre
Providing ongoing product sterility assurance through sterility testing and media fill programs, and processing samples for external testing
Conducting investigations into out of specification results and liaising with internal customers and external suppliers
Carrying out the environmental monitoring program and incubation of samples
Reading of plates and liquid media and evaluation of results
Investigating EM excursions and out of specification results
Sterility testing of finished products and sample processing for external testing
Identifying trends in results and writing reports accordingly
Writing and review of procedures, protocols and records relating to the job role

Qualifications:

Good communication and report writing skills
Minimum Degree Microbiology/related Science or relevant experience
Previous experience in working within a laboratory or pharmaceutical, microbiology or healthcare industries would be beneficial

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