Laboratory Lead

Covid 19 Assessment Team

Hays Specialist Recruitment is now looking to recruit a Laboratory Lead to the Covid 19 Assessment team for a contract assignment until 2021-07-10 at AstraZeneca in Gothenburg.

This facility will be used for high throughput screening for COVID-19 screening of AstraZeneca Key Workers. Staff within this laboratory will be expected to work a shift pattern to enable 16 hours a day operation across 5 days a week - Tuesday to Saturday. Hours for this role is 12pm to 9pm. Please apply only if you are satisfied you can accommodate these working hours.

The COVID-19 Laboratory Lead will be responsible for the day to day running of the COVID-19 screening operation, and will report to the Swedish Covid-19 Assessment Laboratory Head. Some of the hours overlaps with other appointed lab lead(s) working in other shifted pattern.
Primary responsibilities include:

As a Laboratory Lead you will ensure team delivery of service in line with the predefined standard operating procedures (SOPs). You will be responsible for the planning of the daily activities, maximizing the people and equipment resources at hand. You will ensure both laboratory staff and data analysis staff have the information they need to perform their work by holding regular team meetings and conveying information from other stakeholders. You are expected to actively work in the lab as a part of the team, thereby gaining insight to everyday challenges and supporting the team in decision making.

Key Requirements for this role:

* Excellent communication skills
* Enjoys working with people in an agile environment
* Training new people
* Previous experience in planning lab work
* Previous experience in working under SOPs and local and national regulations
* Previous experience as a team leader is desirable
* Work in BSL1 and BSL2 lab with previous experience of aseptic technique preferred.
* Work with human biological specimens. HepB Vaccination advised.
* Work with infectious samples, ideally experience that may contain SARS-Cov-2 would be desirable
* Attention to detail to ensure chain of custody of all samples, strictly adhering to SOPs
* Working and communicating across a fast-paced cross organisational team.
* Experience with RT-PCR data analysis would be desirable
* Experience of liquid handling automation would be desirable