Laboratory Lead
| Posting date: | 19 May 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £35,000 - £39,000 per annum |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 18 June 2025 |
| Location: | Glasgow |
| Company: | Micronclean Ltd |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 881 |
Summary
Job Advert
A brand-new Laboratory Lead vacancy has arisen in our fast-growing company. This is a fantastic opportunity to join our team.
LOCATION: ASSURED MICRO, WEST OF SCOTLAND SCIENCE PARK, 1 KELVIN WALKWAY, GLASGOW G20 0SP
JOB TITLE: LABORATORY LEAD
JOB TYPE: FULL TIME
HOURS OF WORK: Monday to Friday – 9.00am to 5.00pm (with half an hour unpaid lunch break)
SALARY RANGE: £35,000 - £39,000 PER ANNUM (DEPENDENT ON SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE)
JOB PURPOSE:
To take responsibility for activities in our Glasgow-based laboratory, including routine/ad-hoc testing and laboratory
administration, to provide laboratory testing to customers and provide support in the absence of the Quality Manager.
Duties to include:
* Administer, undertake and manage laboratory testing.
* Participate in Quality activities including investigations, deviations, change controls, risk assessments, complaints and
document control.
* Undertake routine quality investigations for the Quality Manager to review, including performing root cause analysis.
* Ensure all testing is performed to GMP standards and is fully compliant with the QMS.
* Provide direction for the other members of the laboratory team on a daily basis.
* Coach, mentor and motivate other members of the laboratory team, ensuring that adequate training is provided.
* Maintain full, accurate and retrievable laboratory records including testing
* Take ownership for, administer, manage and deliver routine and ad-hoc testing across all Assured Micro business activities.
* Have knowledge of data integrity, ALCOA+ and ensure that all laboratory data is treated confidentially.
* Manage laboratory activities actively and efficiently, including effective communication with interested customers, to ensure
the best outcomes for Assured Micro’s customers.
* Maintain a customer-focussed approach in delivering full and accurate testing – both routine and ad-hoc.
* Provide support and technical expertise for client and regulatory audits.
* Introduce innovative means of making laboratory systems more efficient and / or effective.
Knowledge and Skills:
* Background scientific training and / or experience in a field associated with microbiology.
* Have laboratory supervisory experience and capabilities.
* Have experience of GMP licenced facilities.
* Good IT skills in the use of Microsoft office products.
Personal attributes:
* Personal drive and self-motivation
* Good time management skills
* Ability to work independently, as well as part of a team
* Good planning and recording skills
* Fluent spoken and written English
Closing date for applications: Friday 13th June 2025
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early, or change the closing date, if we receive enough applications for the role.
Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.
Why Work for us as a Laboratory Lead?
There are many reasons to join us, but here are just a few more:
* A generous yearly bonus paid every January, to all staff.
* 30 days’ annual leave (including bank holidays), increasing to 33 days for loyalty service.
* Company Sick Pay scheme.
* Company pension contributions of 5% of salary.
* Employee Assistance Programme (EAP), private counselling and other schemes to support employees with their mental health and
wellbeing.
* Annual Family Fun Days, fully paid for by the business.
* A growing, family owned, highly successful business, with a history spanning back to the 1920s.
* Highly committed to investing in people and training, with a proven history of opportunities and promotions from within for
employees who wish to progress.
* A great culture, represented in our company values known as the SKIEs.
* The knowledge that you are making a difference, playing a role in key supply chains such as the Covid-19 vaccine.
About Us
Assured Micro has recently joined the Micronclean group, and was founded in Glasgow in 2009 to support customers who don’t have an
in-house Microbiology department. Today, Assured Micro provides a range of integrated services to companies throughout Scotland
and the North of England.
Micronclean is a family-owned business based in Lincolnshire employing over 400 people. The company provides products and services
to various industries.
Our current focus areas include rental of specialist work wear to cleanroom industries (pharmaceutical, medical devices,
aerospace), and of protective workwear to manufacturing industries (engineering, automotive). The company also manufactures and
distributes a range of cleanroom products, which it sells in the UK and exports throughout Europe and further afield, including
India, Australia, and Canada.
The company has an ambitious vision for growth both in the UK where we are investing in all our plants and abroad where our plant
in Bangalore, India has recently been commissioned and is supporting the production of Covid-19 vaccines in India.
More information about Micronclean and Assured Micro can be found on our websites, please click here
[https://www.micronclean.com/about-us] and here [https://assuredmicro.co.uk/].
IF YOU WISH TO SPEAK TO SOMEONE ABOUT THE ROLE OF LABORATORY LEAD IN MORE DETAIL, PLEASE EMAIL HR@MICRONCLEAN.CO.UK
[HR@MICRONCLEAN.CO.UK] WITH YOUR NAME AND TELEPHONE NUMBER, OR APPLY HERE.
A brand-new Laboratory Lead vacancy has arisen in our fast-growing company. This is a fantastic opportunity to join our team.
LOCATION: ASSURED MICRO, WEST OF SCOTLAND SCIENCE PARK, 1 KELVIN WALKWAY, GLASGOW G20 0SP
JOB TITLE: LABORATORY LEAD
JOB TYPE: FULL TIME
HOURS OF WORK: Monday to Friday – 9.00am to 5.00pm (with half an hour unpaid lunch break)
SALARY RANGE: £35,000 - £39,000 PER ANNUM (DEPENDENT ON SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE)
JOB PURPOSE:
To take responsibility for activities in our Glasgow-based laboratory, including routine/ad-hoc testing and laboratory
administration, to provide laboratory testing to customers and provide support in the absence of the Quality Manager.
Duties to include:
* Administer, undertake and manage laboratory testing.
* Participate in Quality activities including investigations, deviations, change controls, risk assessments, complaints and
document control.
* Undertake routine quality investigations for the Quality Manager to review, including performing root cause analysis.
* Ensure all testing is performed to GMP standards and is fully compliant with the QMS.
* Provide direction for the other members of the laboratory team on a daily basis.
* Coach, mentor and motivate other members of the laboratory team, ensuring that adequate training is provided.
* Maintain full, accurate and retrievable laboratory records including testing
* Take ownership for, administer, manage and deliver routine and ad-hoc testing across all Assured Micro business activities.
* Have knowledge of data integrity, ALCOA+ and ensure that all laboratory data is treated confidentially.
* Manage laboratory activities actively and efficiently, including effective communication with interested customers, to ensure
the best outcomes for Assured Micro’s customers.
* Maintain a customer-focussed approach in delivering full and accurate testing – both routine and ad-hoc.
* Provide support and technical expertise for client and regulatory audits.
* Introduce innovative means of making laboratory systems more efficient and / or effective.
Knowledge and Skills:
* Background scientific training and / or experience in a field associated with microbiology.
* Have laboratory supervisory experience and capabilities.
* Have experience of GMP licenced facilities.
* Good IT skills in the use of Microsoft office products.
Personal attributes:
* Personal drive and self-motivation
* Good time management skills
* Ability to work independently, as well as part of a team
* Good planning and recording skills
* Fluent spoken and written English
Closing date for applications: Friday 13th June 2025
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early, or change the closing date, if we receive enough applications for the role.
Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.
Why Work for us as a Laboratory Lead?
There are many reasons to join us, but here are just a few more:
* A generous yearly bonus paid every January, to all staff.
* 30 days’ annual leave (including bank holidays), increasing to 33 days for loyalty service.
* Company Sick Pay scheme.
* Company pension contributions of 5% of salary.
* Employee Assistance Programme (EAP), private counselling and other schemes to support employees with their mental health and
wellbeing.
* Annual Family Fun Days, fully paid for by the business.
* A growing, family owned, highly successful business, with a history spanning back to the 1920s.
* Highly committed to investing in people and training, with a proven history of opportunities and promotions from within for
employees who wish to progress.
* A great culture, represented in our company values known as the SKIEs.
* The knowledge that you are making a difference, playing a role in key supply chains such as the Covid-19 vaccine.
About Us
Assured Micro has recently joined the Micronclean group, and was founded in Glasgow in 2009 to support customers who don’t have an
in-house Microbiology department. Today, Assured Micro provides a range of integrated services to companies throughout Scotland
and the North of England.
Micronclean is a family-owned business based in Lincolnshire employing over 400 people. The company provides products and services
to various industries.
Our current focus areas include rental of specialist work wear to cleanroom industries (pharmaceutical, medical devices,
aerospace), and of protective workwear to manufacturing industries (engineering, automotive). The company also manufactures and
distributes a range of cleanroom products, which it sells in the UK and exports throughout Europe and further afield, including
India, Australia, and Canada.
The company has an ambitious vision for growth both in the UK where we are investing in all our plants and abroad where our plant
in Bangalore, India has recently been commissioned and is supporting the production of Covid-19 vaccines in India.
More information about Micronclean and Assured Micro can be found on our websites, please click here
[https://www.micronclean.com/about-us] and here [https://assuredmicro.co.uk/].
IF YOU WISH TO SPEAK TO SOMEONE ABOUT THE ROLE OF LABORATORY LEAD IN MORE DETAIL, PLEASE EMAIL HR@MICRONCLEAN.CO.UK
[HR@MICRONCLEAN.CO.UK] WITH YOUR NAME AND TELEPHONE NUMBER, OR APPLY HERE.
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