PET QC Chemist

What can we offer you? Apart from job satisfaction, we can offer you:

• 25 days’ holiday (with the option to buy more)

• Private Healthcare
• Optional dental insurance, health assessments and health cash plans
• Cycle to Work scheme

• Company Pension Scheme, matching contributions up to 5% of salary
• Life assurance
• Annual staff bonus scheme
• Season ticket loans

Job Summary

In this role you'll perform QC method development and routine analysis of PET radiotracers to support clinical and pre-clinical studies in a GMP environment.

• QC of assigned radiotracers according to project distribution and the scanning schedule.
• QC implementation of newly assigned radiotracers: method development, validation and documentation.
• Providing routine QC support to clinical and pre-clinical studies.
• Providing analytical chemistry support for precursor characterization, radiotracer and radioligand purification.
• Data processing including HPLC and GC.
• Documenting QC records to ensure compliance with cGMP.
• Raising and investigating Out Of Specification (OOS) results and Deviation within QMS.
• Presenting technical QC issues to internal and external audits, if required.
• Training and educating others in your area of expertise.
• Keeping up to date with relevant procedures and policies, as well as new analytical techniques and processes (small molecules and biological products).
• Presenting results to internal and external audiences, when required.
• Maintaining adequate stocks of laboratory supplies.
• Completing routine laboratory tasks, e.g., preparing HPLC buffers, calibration standards, etc.

• Minimum 2 years' experience in a QC laboratory.
• Experience in HPLC
• Experience in a GMP environment
• Experience in GC is an advantage.
• Experience working with short-lived radioisotopes preferable (especially carbon-11 and fluorine-18) is desirable.
• Experience in change control is preferable.

• Undergraduate degree in Chemistry or a related scientific discipline

At Perceptive, we enable the world’s pharmaceutical, biotech, and clinical research organizations to rapidly discover and advance life-changing treatments. Together, our global team delivers unmatched scientific and technological expertise, global operational experience, and end‑to‑end solutions to help the global research community realize tomorrow’s new therapies. To do this, we need people like you. At Perceptive, your work will enable our customers to bring lifesaving and life‑improving options to patients around the world.

Learn how you can make a difference by joining our team and uniting under our shared goal – serving science to improve people’s lives.