Formulation Scientist

Please note this is a 12 Month Fixed Term Contract ending April 2027.

Working hours are Monday - Friday 08:00 - 16:30.

Job Responsibilities

• Support Product Development activities to ensure the successful delivery of drug projects spanning all phases of development for Oral Solid Dosage and/or Parenteral products.
• Product Development project delivery support and delivering against the product development strategy.
• Generate experimental data to support development decisions and regulatory documentation.
• Practical support for small scale manufacturing of development drug product batches including planning execution (including set up and clean down) and writing up of lab work. Examples may include roller compaction blending tablet compression coating encapsulation as well as delivering clean manufacturing of non-GMP parenteral products e.g. pre-filled syringes supporting in-use stability activities and lyophilization.)
• Writing lab reports accurate and timely data reporting and analysis.
• Product and Materials characterization support (including techniques such tablet characterization Particle Size Analysis powder flow and bulk properties of parenteral formulations such as solubility in processing aids osmolality and viscosity analysis of lyophiles rheology and polymer characterization).
• Ensure uniformity reproducibility and reliability in all work practices.
• Identify any opportunities for improvement of quality and service and work with the wider team to implement continuous improvement.
• Interpretation of data and contributing to writing internal development protocols and reports.
• Supporting design prototype and scale up of drug product formulations and manufacturing processes.
• Provide technical support to downstream activities including product control strategy technology transfer and launch and relevant protocols and reports.
• Equipment and instrumentation ownership assisting with the maintenance upkeep and calibration.
• SHE responsibilities (such as risk assessments) and lab ownership.

Qualifications :

• Educated to degree level in Pharmacy Pharmaceutical Sciences or another relevant field or have significant  experience in pharmaceutical sciences in Product Development.
• An understanding of how to develop and manufacture a range of standard oral and parenteral formulations would be desirable.
• Strong practical laboratory and relevant analytical skills is required.
• Ability to problem-solve and troubleshoot is essential.
• Collaborative networking and interpersonal skills.
• Good oral and written communication skills is essential.
• Able to document work clearly and concisely as well as understand and describe data / findings importance to others.
• Ability to work safely and comply with key quality systems to ensure data integrity.
• Good organisational and planning skills and an ability to deliver to agreed time and quality.
• Passionate about quality and customer service.

Additional Information :

Benefits

At Eurofins we are growing innovating and always learning. We celebrate the achievements of our employees through annual long service awards recognise our colleagues special life events and we are committed to charitable causes through global fundraising activities.

As a Eurofins employee you will benefit from:

• Life Assurance (4 times annual salary)
• Holiday Purchase Scheme
• Enhanced Maternity Paternity and Adoption Pay Scheme 
• Company Pension Plan
• Employee Assistance Programme 24/7 confidential support.
• Free car parking
• Worldwide career opportunities
• Everyone who joins our team also gets access to Perkbox allowing you to save money all year round. Whether its supermarket savings or days out the daily coffee or a summer holiday theres something to suit everyones lifestyle.

What Happens Next

Our people are the backbone of what we do so its incredibly important we find the right individuals to join us. As a potential new recruit youll be invited to meet the team in the form of an assessment centre or a staged interview process dependent on the role and its requirements this will give you the opportunity to see what working for Eurofins is really like and enable us to get you know your key skills and strengths. 

Your data 
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Closing Date
We reserve the right to close or extend this position depending on application numbers. Therefore we would urge candidates to submit an application as early as possible.
 
Due to the high volume of applications we receive please be aware that if you do not receive a response within 4 weeks of the vacancy expiry date unfortunately on this occasion your application has been unsuccessful. 

We support your development! Do you feel you dont match 100% of the requirements Dont hesitate to apply anyway! Eurofins companies are committed to supporting your career development.

We embrace diversity! Eurofins network of companies believe in strength and innovation through diversity being an Equal Opportunity Employer. We prohibit discrimination against employees or applications based on gender identity and/or expression race nationality age religion sexual orientation disability and everything else that makes employees of Eurofins companies unique.

Sustainability matters to us!  We are well on our way to achieving our objective of carbon neutrality by 2025 through a combination of emission reduction and compensation initiatives. We encourage our laboratory leaders to make sustainable changes at their local level and in addition to their initiatives we also count on our dedicated carbon reduction team to help us to achieve this goal!

For more information about Eurofins PSS please visit our website and watch a message below from our Global Head Beth Di Paolo.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Contract