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Eurofins Senior Pharmaceutical Packaging Scientist - Group Lead in Ware, United Kingdom
Eurofins Scientific is an international life sciences company, providing a unique range of analytical testing services to clients across multiple industries, to make life and our environment safer, healthier and more sustainable. From the food you eat, to the water you drink, to the medicines you rely on, Eurofins laboratories work with the biggest companies in the world to ensure the products they supply are safe, their ingredients are authentic, and labelling is accurate.
Eurofins is dedicated to delivering testing services that contribute to the health and safety of society and the planet, and to its corporate responsibility to protect the environment and ensure diversity, equity, and inclusion across the entire network of Eurofins companies.
Eurofins PSS Insourcing Solutions® is a global, award-winning insourcing solution. We place our skilled team directly at the client site, managing operations seamlessly and eliminating complexities. We ensure a strategic, long-term service commitment that delivers value directly at the client’ site, utilising their facilities, equipment, and methodologies, while maintaining the same service, expertise, and cGMP compliance available at the Eurofins facility. If you're an employee seeking an exceptional career journey, Eurofins PSS Insourcing Solutions® is your gateway to a future where innovation, collaboration, and success converge. Join us in a world where excellence knows no boundaries!
This is a full time, permanent position, working a 37 hour flexible week Monday - Friday.
The primary purpose of this role is to lead and manage an off-site Professional Scientific Staffing (PSS) team of scientists to ensure that team is operating at the highest quality and productivity standards, have high morale and retention, and the agreed customer requirements are entirely satisfied and that customer expectations are met or exceeded through effective leadership and quality operational management. This person will be the key point of contact for the client on a day-to-day basis.
The Lead will also support the development of packaging integrity testing. Including, but not limited to primary packaging integrity tests, blister push through testing, seal integrity testing, visual appearance testing. Become a practical expert in the bottle filling packaging techniques relevant to a primary pack presentation with focus on seal integrity, capable of training others in the technique and application. All activities shall be undertaken at our Clients facilities based in Hertfordshire.
Responsibilities:
Effectively coordinate and manage the PSS team so that productivity, quality, documentation, work schedules, safety and housekeeping is run at maximum efficiency.
Testing various blister material to gain knowledge on the optimum running parameters and comparing these to the data already available from current equipment. Including optimized usage of Vision 3D Blister seal integrity analysis equipment and developing a method using the USON vacuum decay equipment for testing HDPE bottle seal integrity.
Developing methods using the USON vacuum decay equipment for testing Stick pack seal integrity communicating with both Pack lead and drug product workstream lead for the priority stick pack product in development.
Assessment of the blisters created including push through testing, wall thickness and pocket depth measurements, Seal integrity and visual appearance assessments.
Support the development of a packaging development strategy for bulk pack analysis, stability and preferred components for both drug substance and drug product.
Delivering the Moisture modelling assessments of different packaging container closure systems and oral solid dose products. Identifying required desiccant levels for bulk and primary packaging presentations. The role holder will provide technical and practical support to project teams in the progression of the packaging aspects of projects, utilising the moisture modelling webapp.
Accumulate and record data from a number of packaging development specific work packages, e.g. Distribution testing, MVTR, Child resistance assessments, USP compliance testing etc., to generate a database that can be used as the focal point for all prior knowledge discussions.
Maintain database of current and historical packaging component specifications
Authoring a technical document summarizing preferred ways of working for developing a bulk pack considering moisture modelling, desiccant requirements, preferred components etc. Reviewing previous bulk registration stability set downs especially when carried out in R&D highlighting good practices for recording data, review and approval of experiments and aligning with the relevant SOP’s.
B.S./M.S. degree in Material Science and Engineering , Chemistry, Life Science, or equivalent industry experience.
Proven experience in packaging development, primarily in pharmaceutical industry.
Proven managerial experience.
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
Health Cash Plan
Life Assurance (4 times annual salary).
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 – there’s something to suit everyone’s lifestyle.
What Happens Next
Our people are the backbone of what we do, so it's incredibly important we find the right individuals to join us. As a potential new recruit you'll be invited to meet the team in the form of an assessment centre or a staged interview process dependent on the role and it's 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.
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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!
Find out more in our career page: https://careers.eurofins.com/