Operational Scientist, Drug Product Delivery

Hays is offering a 1-year consultant assignment as Operational Scientist at AstraZeneca in Gothenburg.

Hays Life Science is now offering a 1-year consultant assignment as Operational Scientist within Drug Product Deliveries at AstraZeneca in Gothenburg. Please submit your application by January 13th at the latest.

AstraZeneca are curious, creative, and open to new ideas and ways of working. Above all, they are passionate about science and driven to always put patients first. Join AstraZeneca and apply your expertise in a company that are following the science and turn ideas into life changing medicines. We have an exciting opportunity for a talented operational Scientist to be based in Gothenburg on an 1 year long assignment.

Drug Product Delivery (DPD) within Pharmaceutical Technology & Development is the sole internal AstraZeneca department that packs, labels and distributes investigational medicinal products to clinical trial patients. We support launched, pre-launched and products under development within all our therapeutic areas. We work in a fast paced environment where flexibility and agility enable us to deliver high value to early phase clinical trials.


The role
The Operational Scientist role will be a flexible role within Drug Product Deliveries three operational skill areas, Material Management, Pack Label and Distribution. We work in an environment where flexibility and agility enable us to deliver high value to early phase clinical trials.To complement our existing team, candidates with the following experiences might be of interest:

* Newly trained engineer with the interested to work operational with the opportunity to drive improvement projects aiming for our vision, "Simplification and Automation".
* Logistic experience from a complex supply chain organization.
* Deviation investigation experience with an analytical mindset used to not only solving the issue but finding the solution to prevent similar issues to reoccur.

Main Duties and Responsibilities
The role holder will contribute to the DPD organization applying their expertise in the complex and regulated GMP environment. The work is focused on being a flexible operational scientist within at least two skills. As a operational scientist you will:

* Perform and document all the operational work according to written procedures and GMPs with manual and/or automated systems/equipment.
* Be engaged in the development and improvement of internal processes and manage deviations.
* Be responsible for writing of GMP procedures within own skill areas and will be responsible for related training and compliance activities.
* As required maintain defined facilities or equipment according to GMP standards and be proactive to contribute to projects/activities through applying specialist knowledge within appropriate areas.

Essential requirements and skills

* BSc/MSc in Engineering, Chemistry, Pharmacy, or equivalent experience.
* Curious and innovative mindset with problem solving ability - resolve issues with minimal guidance.
* Good written and verbal English communication and understanding.
* Good skills in and experienced user of Excel.
* Interest in and ability to quickly learn new IT systems and processes.

Beneficial requirements and skills

* Manufacturing experience.
* Demonstrated ability to work with teams in a culturally diverse, complex and changing environment most internally but to some extent externally.
* Great Understanding of principles, applications and management of GMP.

What you need to do now
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