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Macclesfield, Cheshire
Associate Sterilisation Support Officer
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Would you like to apply your expertise to impact of Sterilisation in a company that follows the science and turns ideas into life changing medicines? Then AstraZeneca might be the one for you! At AstraZeneca, we believe in the potential of our people and you'll develop beyond what you thought possible. Every one of our employees makes a difference to patient lives every single day. In these roles, you can be a part of this by ensuring your customers can focus on delivery of novel lifesaving medicines, as you assist them to administer their complex business lives. We are offering this new and exciting progressive role to support sterile manufacturing facilities at our Macclesfield campus. The campus supplies products for most of the AstraZeneca therapy areas to global markets and thus has long term development opportunities. Sterilisation processes that you'll be involved in include steam/dry heat sterilisation. We'll ask you to support and run a schedule of steriliser qualifications for your assigned Manufacturing Plants, processing facility and for the Quality Assurance Department. This is comprised of 18 units including autoclaves, sterilising ovens and freeze dryers. On a periodic basis, the sterilisers undergo qualification testing in order to validate and verify that they are performing consistently. Your remit will be to ensure that this work is completed in a timely manner whilst minimising the loss of production time. You'll be working within a team to achieve operational delivery within a complex or multidisciplinary production environment. You'll assist in drafting the appropriate qualification programmes and the associated reports to meets the standards required by the relevant works and regulatory authorities. You will contribute to running qualification cycles by placing Biological indicators and Thermocouples in predefined locations as per qualification programmes. By supporting the problem solving and correction of problems associated with sterilisation issues, you'll contribute to improving the efficiencies of the manufacturing operation. We'll support you to assist in implement of new equipment, systems and procedures. This will assist us in meeting increasing demand from business and/or regulatory standards aimed at providing higher levels of sterility assurance. We'll encourage you actively support in any ongoing continuous improvement project. This will develop your personal lean/manufacturing excellence knowledge. Working closely within your business area and other aligned support services, you'll participate with continuous improvement activities or projects so that they meet the agreed objectives. We'll give you the opportunity to support formal and informal training of less experienced staff and new starters to meet the line and business requirements. Essential Requirements: * We'll be looking for good verbal and written communication skills and effective networking skills. These will be required for clear and effective liaison with our supervisors/managers within production. * We require you to have good numerate and literate skills with a systematic approach to problem solving. * High levels of concern for standards and attention to detail with a self-motivating and proactive approach are also required. * Ideally a scientific/technical degree background is desirable but foundation level experience in aseptic production environment and relevant experience of steriliser operation would suffice. * Ideally you'll join us with experience of working in a GMP environment. * Naturally curious, you'll have the ability to learn and understand the operation of sterilisers and sterilisation processes. This will include the application of current international standards and regulatory requirements for sterile product manufacture. We're eager to hear from you so you can progress your career within AstraZeneca! Date Posted 10-Jun-2020 Closing Date 28-Jun-2020 AstraZeneca embraces diversity and equality of opportunity. We are committed to building an inclusive and diverse team representing all backgrounds, with as wide a range of perspectives as possible, and harnessing industry-leading skills. We believe that the more inclusive we are, the better our work will be. We welcome and consider applications to join our team from all qualified candidates, regardless of their characteristics. We comply with all applicable laws and regulations on non-discrimination in employment (and recruitment), as well as work authorization and employment eligibility verification requirements.