Senior Production Scientist

Vacancy NameSenior Production Scientist Vacancy NoVN965 BasisPermanent Duration Work LocationCrumlin Job Details

BBI exists to help our customers create advances that improve health and save lives. We are seeking a Senior Production Scientist to join our team. This is a permanent, full-time position based at our site in Crumlin. Join our team: advancing health, together.

The Role

The Senior Production Scientist oversees the manufacture of products and is the first point of contact for technical queries for Production Scientists. This role involves ensuring compliance with quality systems, maintaining accurate records, training employees and supporting continuous improvement initiatives. The Senior Production Scientist will also be responsible for equipment operation and maintenance, meeting production targets, and adhering to health and safety regulations.

In This Role Your Responsibilities Will Include

• Production expert in the relevant product portfolio for troubleshooting and customer support .
• Manufacture product without supervision.
• Ensure batch record completion is accurate and up to date, including the review and approval of batch records.
• Contribute to meeting daily, weekly and monthly production targets.
• Perform in-process testing and quality checks of finished products where required.
• Operate various pieces of production associated with manufacture where required.
• Calibrate key laboratory equipment, including pH meters.
• Oversee the calibration of laboratory equipment, and maintenance checks.
• Manage planned and unplanned maintenance through the equipment management system, ensuring data is accurate and up-to-date.
• Maintain and calibrate specialist equipment (e.g., Akta, Freeze Driers).
• Own and investigate complaints, NCs, CAPAs, and deviations within the quality system.
• Assist with failure investigations and rapid responses.
• Represent the department at internal and external audits as an SME.
• Generate change controls via Q Pulse and drive completion.
• Participate in risk assessments, including COSHH, FMEA, and process H&S risk assessments.
• Keep and review GMP-compliant records.
• Participate in validation activities, including reviewing new production procedures and manufacturing pilot and validation batches.
• Generate new documentation and complete change requests as necessary
• Adhere to all SOPs, PSBRs, EOPs, SMPs, and relevant documents, and ensure production employees follow these procedures.

You Should Apply If

• Experience working with biological materials
• Biological / Science related Degree (preferred)
• Knowledge and Experience
• Experience in GMP / ISO9001 / ISO13485 industry
• Extensive manufacturing experience
• Experience and understanding in the application of Chromatographic techniques.

Our Recruitment Process

If this role sounds like it’s for you, click ‘apply’ today. Once we’ve received your application, a member of our recruitment team will be in touch to arrange a call. On this call, we’ll be able to tell you a lot more about working here at BBI Solutions, how ‘a day in the life’ of this position looks and discuss the next stages of the recruitment process.

If you are an internal employee applying for this vacancy you and your manager are required to complete an internal transfer form. This needs to be completed in full and attached to your application along with your CV and cover letter.

As part of career development and succession planning internal applicants will receive priority consideration initially, please ensure that you apply within the initial two-week period to support this.

Why Choose BBI

We are committed to promoting and protecting the physical, financial, and emotional well-being of all our employees. With our employees focused on others, we’re focused on them. That’s why, at BBI, we’re dedicated to providing our employees with access to global resources and site-specific benefits that support their health and wellbeing.

• Competitive Salary with Yearly Salary Reviews
• 5% Contributory Pension Scheme
• Life Assurance (4x Annual Salary)
• Private Health Care Scheme – including dental
• Global Employee Wellbeing Programme
• Reward and Recognition Programme
• Commitment to Career Development
• Generous Annual Leave Package
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• Refer A Friend Scheme
• Subsidised Canteen
• Free Onsite Parking
• Electrical Vehicle Lease Scheme
• Electrical Charging Points
• State of the Art Facilities – Certified Centres of Excellence

We’re also focused on development, creating an environment that allows our employees to nurture their talent and empowers you to make a difference. This is achieved by providing our employees with access to learning opportunities to help achieve personal career goals.

About BBI

For more than 70 years, we’ve been perfecting reagents, both native and recombinant, to help IVD and life-science teams turn breakthrough ideas into reliable, life-saving advances.

Great products are only the start. From troubleshooting tricky performance issues and customising reagents to meeting new regulatory standards, our scientists work to clear obstacles and accelerate progress. That’s why we continue to invest millions in new recombinant capabilities that help create diagnostics that improve health and save lives - in a more ethical and sustainable way than ever before.

Equal Opportunities

BBI are an equal opportunity employer and believe in fair treatment for all candidates. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status, pregnancy, citizenship, marital status, gender expression, genetic information, political affiliation, or any other characteristic protected by law.

We ask that all applicants complete an equal opportunity monitoring form on a voluntary basis, with all submissions remaining anonymous. The information on the form will be used for monitoring purposes only and will not be used in any decision affecting you.

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