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Speke, England, United Kingdom

This role comprises of overall management co-ordination and responsibility for the day-to-day operational management of three onsite support team, these are GMP facility support, lab services, and scientific support. I am also responsible for all QMS documentation in the areas that I manage, health and safety requirements, training/compliance, and line management of the teams to ensure delivery of a high-quality service. I will liaise with other departments, suppliers, senior stakeholders, and the science community ensuring continuity of contracted services by measuring Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and adhering to Service Level Agreements (SLAs). I lead development of strategies to identify and deliver projects to provide efficiency improvements, Baselining, cost saving opportunities for Pharmaron and drive and support operational excellence across the teams within my areas of responsibility.

Speke, England, United Kingdom

As site services lead at Allergan Pharmaceuticals I have overall management co-ordination and responsibility for the day to day operational management of the Avantor Services Laboratory & Technical Services team on our customer’ site at Allergan Biologics, Speke. I am responsible for health and safety requirements, training/compliance and line management of the Avantor staff to ensure delivery of a high-quality service to the customer. I liaise with other suppliers, senior stakeholders and the science community ensuring continuity of contracted services by measuring Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and adhering to Service Level Agreements (SLAs). I develop a strategies to identify and deliver projects to provide efficiency improvements, Baselining, cost saving opportunities for Allergan and drive and support operational excellence across the teams are also my responsibility.

Alderley Edge

The leading, global, independent provider of products, services and solutions to laboratory and production facilities. With sales in excess of $4.3 billion in 2015, Avantor enables science for customers in the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, industrial, education, government and healthcare industries. With more than 160 years of experience, Avantor has cultivated a value proposition delivering product choice, operational excellence and differentiated services to improve our customers’ productivity from research to production. Avantor’s differentiated services provide innovative, flexible and customised solutions from scientific research services to custom-manufactured chemical blends. Our dedicated team of more than 9,300 associates is focused on supporting scientists, medical professionals and production engineers to achieve their goals.In my role as Laboratory manager I am responsible for the day to day operational management of both an Astrazeneca high throughput screening laboratory and a safety screening laboratory at Alderley park. I organise the health and safety requirements and compliance, monitoring and maintenance of equipment and laboratory resources to ensure a safe and secure working environment for VWR support staff and Astrazeneca scientists. I am the first point of contact for all research staff to deal with issues within the laboratory. I also liaise with other suppliers, senior stakeholders, and scientists ensuring continuity of key technical services by measuring key performance indicators (KPIs) and adhering to service level agreements (SLAs).

Rochdale

My responsibilities are the management and operation of the Serology, Analytical chemistry, and DNA Sequencing teams at the Rochdale branch of Source Bioscience. This involves the production and dispatch of various serological products for a wide variety of international and British customers including the NHS, The analysis of various drug compounds through our analytical chemistry lab, and the rapid sequencing of genetic material sent to us from academic and private institutions from the entire north west of England in a turnaround time of less than 24 hours.I perform these roles under cGMP regulation, to ISO9001 and ISO13485 standards. I am responsible for meeting all deadlines for our customers and ensuring that all products are made, analysed, or sequenced to the highest degree of quality and shipped or reported appropriately and within a time-scale to suit our customer's requirements.I manage my three teams ensuring that any problems and difficulties are dealt with in an efficient and thorough manner to maintain a high rate of production whilst keeping staff motivated and of an exemplary level of competency in their roles. The production undertaken is of an impeccable level of excellence employing the use of state of the art equipment such as our grade C clean-room.I ensure my teams have the required elements to manufacture products following SOPs and strict deadlines and the use of non-conformance documents and CAPAs. All production undertaken is also well documented with clear detailed batch records and ensuring the use of well defined checks.

Dundee, United Kingdom

My duties include carrying out work under cGMP regulation, to ISO9001 and ISO13485 and FDA standards. I have been involved in assisting in the manufacturing of lateral flow test kits and the manufacturing gold colloid using various particle sizes. I have employed technical analysis and problem solving for product and production related issues and regularly prepare a variety of buffers, test/control line solutions and conjugates used in the manufacture of various products. My role includes assisting in, and also independently carrying out, the striping, spraying and drying of various membranes used in the final test kits and the application of laboratory skills and use of equipment such as pipettes, spectrophotometers, pH meters, centrifuges, computerised conjugation systems and Isoeye reel to reels. I ensure the entire production team have the required elements to manufacture products following SOPs and strict deadlines and have experience writing scientific and analytical reports, Non-conformance documents and CAPAs. My day to day tasks include using electronic quality systems such as Ensur and Sage throughout manufacture and close participation in COSHH Assessment, Risk Assessment and Health and Safety RegulationsI am competent with the manufacture and assembly of rapid tests, raw materials, and other diagnostic products and am well versed in maintaining and completing batch records, making sure that they are up to date and accurate, and establishing the performance of defined checks. I have am also trained in conducting the proper maintenance, calibration and cleaning of various machines.

Dundee, United Kingdom

I started working at the Nether Inn immediately after I graduated from university and within two months I was quickly promoted to management level and was involved in all aspects of running the business. This spanned from hiring and training staff to stock and banking management and maintaining a safe clean environment. I feel this job was a valuable experience and I have gained many interpersonal and problem solving skills which I feel is are useful to have in any work environment.

Dundee, United Kingdom

I was originally employed as an entertainments worker who's responsibilities were to set up and take down the sound and visual equipment for any act or bands we had performing at the student centre. I was quickly promoted to assist the entertainments coordinator with his duties in planning and booking acts for the various events that the student centre held. I was responsible for the social media pages, organising the entertainments team, setting the rota, and processing the finances to pay the employees and performers. During my time at Abertay student centre I also took charge of the carbon trust green initiate single handedly getting the building up to code with the gold standards set, and worked briefly on all the other departments when I was needed including bars and security.