QC Scientist

Are you looking for an opportunity to apply your advanced analytical expertise directly to the release and stability testing of life-saving medicines? Join our Basel-based quality control team as a QC Scientist, where your technical precision and passion for excellence will help ensure our drug products meet the highest safety standards before reaching patients globally.

This is a fully site‑based role. Working together in person supports close, real‑time collaboration and the technical precision needed to manufacture medicines to the highest quality and safety standards.

• An agile career and dynamic working culture.
• An inclusive and ethical workplace.
• Competitive hourly rate
• 12 months contract

Compensation for this role will be determined by the candidate’s qualifications, skills, experience, and relevant knowledge.

• Drive the greater impact of ensuring impeccable quality, safety, and compliance for drug product release and stability testing.
• Collaborate closely with internal laboratory technicians, cross-functional quality assurance stakeholders, and external customer or regulatory auditors.
• Independently execute routine and validation physical‑chemical assays including compendial, content, identity, and purity testing for biologics and large molecules.
• Maintain routine laboratory excellence by executing, reviewing, and approving basic operational tasks such as mobile phase preparations, pH meter calibrations, and balance maintenance.
• Proactively investigate and troubleshoot analytical laboratory equipment issues, identifying root causes and proposing robust mitigation measures.
• Keep the laboratory in an audit‑ready state by adhering strictly to cGMP standards, managing inventory, and sustaining 6S organizational principles.
• Support professional growth and team compliance by drafting and updating standard operating procedures (SOPs) for analytical instruments and contributing to laboratory optimization initiatives.

• Demonstrable experience working within a strict cGMP‑regulated environment specializing in physical‑chemical analytics.
• At least 2 years of hands‑on working experience in a technical or quality control analytics role within the pharmaceutical, biopharmaceutical, or chemical industry.
• Strong, proven experience utilizing Empower software (v3.7) as an advanced Power User.
• Solid technical background holding a vocational or technical certification (such as a Swiss EFZ, HF, or German/Austrian CTA, BTA, PTA) or an academic science degree (BSc or MSc).
• Comprehensive scientific knowledge of phys‑chem analytics applied to biologics and large molecules, with a track record of data interpretation, reporting, and documentation.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication abilities, with the skill set to operate seamlessly as an independent contributor within a dynamic team.
• Professional written and spoken English proficiency to effectively navigate documentation and corporate collaboration.

At Lonza, our people are our greatest strength. With 30+ sites across five continents, our globally connected teams work together every day to manufacture the medicines of tomorrow. Our core values of Collaboration, Accountability, Excellence, Passion and Integrity reflect who we are and how we work together. Everyone’s ideas, big or small, have the potential to improve millions of lives, and that’s the kind of work we want you to be part of.

Innovation thrives when people from all backgrounds bring their unique perspectives to the table. At Lonza, we value diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment.

As Lonza’s talent acquisition partner, please note, Randstad is responsible for the engagement and contracting of this contingent role.