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Job Description

QC Team Manager

Are you looking for a patient-oriented, innovation-driven company that inspires you and promotes your career? Then take your future in your hands and become part of Takeda as a QC Team Leader.

Takeda's presence in Ireland was established in 1997 and our Irish operations have played role in our global leadership in rare diseases, oncology and gastroenterology. Since beginning commercial operations, Takeda Ireland has grown in strength thanks to substantial investment in our people and industry-leading technology.

How you will contribute:

• Ensure that the QC lab is in compliance with Good Laboratory Practice/Good Manufacturing Practice. Implement and maintain standards of GLP practice consistent with regulatory expectation and cGMP.

• Responsible for all aspects of guidance of a team of QC analysts/technicians, including performance management and the execution of business processes to a high standard as monitored.

• Support your team and help them to perform to a high standard, in the achievement of the company and department goals.

• Inspire enthusiasm and stimulate interest and guiding staff to ensure they are productive.

• Safety, cGMP and Continuous Improvement.

• Ensure that Production, QA, Planning, Shipping and support departments receive an quality service through meeting scheduled target release dates and compliance standards.

• Training, recruitment, discipline and performing appraisals of QC analysts/technicians.

• To perform an investigation into any non-conformance, instrument malfunction, accident or other abnormal occurrence.

• Validation, operation, maintenance, calibration and trouble shooting of laboratory instruments.

• Approval of relevant QC documentation

• Support major Projects, quality plans and continuous improvement programmes within the department and in other.

• Prepare for and supporting external audits (HPRA, FDA, corporate, or client).

• Implement and maintain standards of safety to guarantee a safe working laboratory. Ensure that the laboratory is kept clean, tidy and safe.

• To highlight and implement new technologies in QC area.

• To maintain the validated status of the LIMS/Empower systems and other relevant systems and to manage them to assure compliance with acceptable regulations and company policies.

• To act as designee for Manager; QC Laboratory in their absence.

• Participate in any training programmes.

• Guide and promote the corporate values of Takeda-ism within the workplace.

• Foster, in cooperation with other TIL staff, an ethos and culture of safety awareness where safety is accepted as an necessary part of the business. Ensure that Accident Reports / Near Miss Forms are completed promptly after an event.

• Ensure completion of all SOP, reading, training and assessment.

• Other tasks and directed by the Manager, QC or other Officer appointed by the Board of Directors.

What you bring to Takeda:

• BSc. (minimum) in science or a related discipline

• Have relevant experience in the pharmaceutical industry.

• 5 years experience in an analytical lab preferably with supervisory responsibilities.

• Technical experience of GC / HPLC Analysis required.

• Experience with continuous improvement plans within the QC environment.

• Experience managing, motivating and leading a team of analysts

• Promote teamwork by promoting a supportive and inclusive team atmosphere and to focus people on priorities and guide them to achieve their goals

• Address performance issues and establish specific plans to help team members reach goals

• Provide team members with, constructive feedback, coaching and support to help them recognize and on their strengths and development needs.

• Good investigational and technical writing skills.

What Takeda can offer you:

• Great compensation package and performance-based bonus

• Employer retirement plan contributions

• Employee Stock Purchase Plan

• Revenue approved profit share scheme

• Employer funded income protection

• Employer funded private medical insurance with dependants' cover

• Employer life insurance contributions

• Electric charging points available at parking locations

• Employee Assistance Program

• Wellbeing and engagement teams

• Takeda Resource Groups

• Flexible schedule

• Family friendly policies

• 26 vacation days plus additional days for service milestones

• Educational programs and formal training

• Development opportunities

• Humanitarian volunteering leave options

• Subsidised canteen

• Flexible employee funded options like Dental Insurance, Partner Life Insurance, Serious Illness Protection, Fuel Card, Bike to Work, Commuter Ticket, and Insurance Deals

More about us:

Takeda is focused on creating better health for people and a brighter future for the world. We aim to discover and deliver life-transforming treatments in our core therapeutic and departments, including gastrointestinal and inflammation, rare diseases, plasma-derived therapies, oncology, neuroscience, and vaccines.

Takeda Ireland was established in 1997. Our story in Ireland is one of substantial growth, rapid change, and. Over the past two years, Takeda Ireland has invested over €55 million in Ireland to develop our manufacturing sites. Solidifying our commitment in our people and contributing to the local economy. Takeda in Ireland has commercial operations, corporate services, and manufacturing facilities across four locations: Baggot St, Bray, Citywest, and Grange Castle. We have been certified as Top Employer for several consecutive years.

How we will support you:

Takeda is proud of its commitment to create a diverse workforce and to provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to ethnicity, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, parental status, national origin, age, disability, citizenship status, genetic information or characteristics, marital status or any other characteristic protected by law. If you are living with disabilities, chronic illness, or neurodiversity, please feel free to let us know so that we can provide you with appropriate support during the application process.

Locations

Bray, Ireland

Worker Type

Employee

Worker Sub-Type

Regular

Time Type

Full time