Manager, QC Instrumentation Technical Lead

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The Role

BMS Cruiserath Biologics is seeking to recruit a Manager, QC Instrumentation Technical Lead.

This is a Fixed-Term contract role.

Position Summary

The QC Instrumentation Technical Lead is responsible for providing technical leadership and oversight of the QC laboratory instrumentation programme to ensure analytical equipment remains qualified, calibrated, maintained, compliant, and available to support laboratory operations. The role serves as the technical subject matter expert for instrumentation lifecycle management, instrument qualification, calibration strategies, troubleshooting, and compliance activities.

The Technical Lead is responsible for leading instrumentation investigations, CAPAs and change controls, supporting regulatory inspections, evaluating instrument capability for new methods and products, and ensuring laboratory instrumentation programmes remain aligned with regulatory, compendial and corporate requirements. The position also provides technical mentoring and guidance to instrumentation specialists and laboratory personnel while supporting continuous improvement and digital transformation initiatives across the QC organisation.

Key Responsibilities

Instrument Lifecycle & Qualification

• Lead the lifecycle management of QC analytical instrumentation, ensuring equipment remains qualified, calibrated, maintained, compliant, and available to support laboratory operations.

• Manage qualification activities for new and existing laboratory instruments, including installation, qualification, performance verification, periodic review, requalification, maintenance and retirement activities.

• Assess instrument capability, performance and suitability for analytical methods, new product introductions and evolving laboratory requirements.

Compliance & Quality Systems

• Own instrumentation-related investigations, deviations, CAPAs and change controls, ensuring timely and eAective resolution of quality and compliance issues.

• Maintain inspection readiness of instrumentation programmes and associated qualification, calibration, maintenance and lifecycle documentation.

• Ensure instrumentation procedures, qualification activities and calibration strategies remain aligned with regulatory, compendial and corporate requirements.

Technical Support & Continuous Improvement

• Serve as the technical SME for laboratory instrumentation, providing support for complex troubleshooting, laboratory investigations and operational challenges.

• Support laboratory systems and digital initiatives, including platforms such as CIMS/LIMS, Maximo, Valgeneis, LES, SmartQC and other QC electronic systems.

• Identify and implement opportunities to improve instrumentation reliability, compliance, eAiciency and operational performance.

Inspection Readiness & Leadership

• Act as the instrumentation SME during regulatory inspections, audits and cross functional reviews, leading responses to instrumentation-related observations.

• Provide technical leadership, coaching and guidance to instrumentation specialists and laboratory personnel, fostering knowledge sharing and continuous development.

• Collaborate with site, network and global stakeholders to deliver instrumentation projects, implement best practices and support strategic laboratory initiatives

Required Competencies

The successful candidate will demonstrate:

• Strong technical expertise in analytical laboratory instrumentation. Comprehensive understanding of equipment qualification and lifecycle management principles.

• Strong knowledge of cGMP, FDA, EMA, ICH and data integrity requirements. Excellent investigation, root cause analysis and problem-solving skills.

• Strong project management and organisational capabilities.

• Effective verbal, written and technical communication skills.

• Ability to manage multiple priorities and deliver against challenging timelines. Experience influencing stakeholders and working within multidisciplinary teams.

• Strong leadership, coaching and mentoring capabilities.

• Proven ability to support and lead regulatory inspections.

• Commitment to continuous improvement, operational excellence and compliance.

Education, Experience and Qualifications

Essential

• Bachelor’s degree in Science, Engineering or a related technical discipline. Minimum 5 years’ experience within the biopharmaceutical, pharmaceutical or related regulated industry.

• Minimum 2 years’ experience supporting analytical laboratory instrumentation in a GMP environment.

• Experience managing instrument qualification, calibration and maintenance programmes.

• Experience leading investigations, CAPAs and change controls.

• Strong technical writing and documentation review experience.

• Demonstrated experience supporting regulatory inspections and audits.

Preferred

Experience with chromatography, spectroscopy and general analytical laboratory instrumentation.

Why you should apply

• You will help patients in their fight against serious diseases
• You will be part of a company that encourages excellence and innovation, respects diversity, develops leaders and values its employees.
• You’ll get a competitive salary and a great benefits package including an annual bonus, pension contribution, family medical allowance, 27 days of annual leave, life assurance and on-site gym

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On-site Protocol

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