Sample / Stability Controller - Bradford, United Kingdom - Malvern Panalytical Ltd

Malvern Panalytical Ltd

Verified Company

Bradford, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

PRINCIPAL OBJECTIVES:

The purpose of the role is to manage the goods in and storage stability / sample storage activities at the Bradford site, including dealing with deliveries and some shipping.

A part of the role is also maintaining the stock levels within the laboratory and ensuring that reagent and chemical supplies are available when required.

The holder reports to the Facilities Officer.

One of the key facets to the role is setting down stability studies, monitoring and control during studies, and pulling samples for testing at appropriate timepoints, also effective liaison with colleagues and clients, on-site and off-site.

In agreement with their line manager, the Sample/Stability Controller will schedule their daily work activities in the order:

Prioritise duties regarding samples and stability studies
Assisting Laboratory Support Technicians with daily / weekly / monthly facilities duties

To do this the role holder shall:

Have overall responsibility for the stability storage suite and related activities; put up stability storage studies and pull samples at appropriate timepoints; transfer to laboratory team or ship to clients.
Have overall responsibility for the sample stores; booking in samples as required and working with colleagues to maintain accurate test samples databases.
Look to optimise process and systems and, with the agreement of the management team, roll out relevant and agreed improvements.
Manage and carry out daytoday laboratory, stability suite and sample store housekeeping, ensuring these areas are clean and tidy and meet Quality Assurance requirements.
Assist with regular samples disposal procedures; updating records accordingly.
Process purchase orders and reconcile delivery notes with purchase orders.
Carry out any duties allocated by the management team; when not occupied with stability or sample store tasks, assist the Facilities Team in their regular tasks.
Liaise with suppliers and external contractors as required.
Work closely with other laboratory users to ensure effective laboratory operations.
Provide support and direction to colleagues as required on storage issues.
Will follow and abide by all H&S regulations and report any deviations or improvements to the H&S Officer.
May be an active contributor to the Health & Safety team activities.
Demonstrate an ongoing commitment to Quality. Will follow and abide by all relevant cGMP, GLP and ISO9001 regulations and report any deviations or improvements to the QA Manager.

SUMMARY OF DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

Stability Controller Tasks:
Maintain stability storage suite to ensure approved storage conditions are in place / correctly monitored and relevant databases are up to date.
Control stability storage conditions by regular monitoring of the Hanwell Environmental datalogging system.
Put up stability storage studies (ensuring stability protocols are in place, assisting with dispensing and labelling, updating databases, transferring samples to storage locations) and pulling samples at appropriate timepoints; transfer to laboratory team or shipping to clients. Updating relevant databases.
Report any discrepancies with the stability storage equipment / areas and in case of failure arranging maintenance or repair services. Arranging annual service visitors; liaising with vendors.
Comply with all relevant standard operating procedures.
Sample Controller Tasks:
Have overall responsibility for the sample stores; work with colleagues to maintain accurate test samples databases.
Ensuring all test samples are allocated into the appropriate sample store (GLP / GMP), signed / dated upon arrival and, with the assistance of trained colleagues when needed, booked in within two hours of arrival.
Report any discrepancies with the samples booking processes or storage areas (room conditions / housekeeping issues).
Control sample storage conditions by regular monitoring of the Hanwell Environmental datalogging system.
Assist with regular samples disposal procedures; updating records accordingly.
Comply with all relevant standard operating procedures.
Assist with the Audits for External clients; first point of call to show the importance of the booking in procedures.
Supervisor of the Hanwell datalogging system; change batteries every 4 months of all critical equipment's and making sure the alarms are acknowledged end of the working day.
Training all new starters, the procedures of booking in and checking the samples.
Dealing with dispatching samples to external clients; from paperwork to subsampling the samples.
Create purchase orders on SAP
Archiving: booking in forms need archiving once the item has been disposed/return to client.
General Facilities Team Tasks:
Dealing with all deliveries including unpacking, labelling, updating databases, transferring chemicals / reagents / consumables to storage locations and notifying the relevant colleagues.
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