Quality Control Team Lead

Become part of a leading international company and help build a modern quality control laboratory in a new, state-of-the-art production facility focused on excipients and pharmaceutical raw materials. As a QC analyst team lead, you will be a key member of the newly emerging team and will have a unique opportunity to participate in setting up processes and the overall quality strategy on site.

Main responsibilities

• Leading and managing small team of QC analysts
• Design and optimization of procedures for testing raw materials, intermediate products and final products in cooperation with QA.
• Developing methods and performing sample and laboratory analyses using HPLC, GC, UV-VIS, FT-IR, ICP-OES/MS methods.
• Ensuring compliance with Good Laboratory Practice (GLP) principles
• Preparation of Certificates of Analysis (CoA) and participation in the batch release/release process.
• Handling non-routine analyses, including investigating customer/supplier complaints, internal deviations, and validation and qualification activities.
• Calibration of laboratory equipment and maintenance of relevant documentation.
• Laboratory inventory management, reagent and standard preparation.
• Creation and updating of SOPs, implementation of stability studies according to regulatory requirements.
• Collaborate with Production, QA, Maintenance and Purchasing on validation and verification plans.
• Laboratory testing of new product formulations.

Required Qualifications

• A university degree in analytical chemistry or a related field.

• At least 5 years of practical laboratory experience in a pharmaceutical environment.

• Knowledge of wet chemistry and modern analytical techniques.

• Orientation in GMP/GLP and the European Pharmacopoeia.

• Knowledge of APIs, excipients and bio-pharmaceutical raw materials.

• Fluent Czech

• Communicative English for everyday cooperation.

• Demonstrated ability to supervise and develop a small team, including task coordination and performance management.

• Ability to work independently and excellent communication skills.

Why join us

• The opportunity to participate in building a new QC laboratory from scratch.
• An active role in shaping the quality strategy of the entire plant.
• Career growth in a dynamic international environment.

Sign up today and become part of a team that influences the quality of pharmaceutical products around the world.