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AstraZeneca

QC Laboratory Technician – Analytical Chemistry

Contract: 12 Month Contract

Location: Macclesfield - Based 100% On-Site

Flexible Working Hours 7.3 hours per day: 07:00 – 15:00 (Monday - Friday) - Possible Weekend Work On Occasion

Annual Benefits/Bonus: Yes

Make a meaningful impact on people’s lives with life-changing medicines

In Quality, our work is important and valued. An unrivalled forward-looking attitude, there’s no better place to work at the forefront and learn how to add real value to a business throughout the lifecycle of our products – discovery, development, and commercialisation. Here you’ll feel empowered to step up, follow the science and evidence to make decisions that put patients first.

Our Macclesfield Campus:

We are now recruiting for analytical laboratory technicians to join our Quality Control team at our Macclesfield site.

Macclesfield is AstraZeneca’s second largest manufacturing and supply site and as a laboratory technician, you will be effectively testing products within the Quality Control Laboratory team against registered specifications to agreed customer service lead times.

The Business Area:

The Analytical Chemistry Group in the Quality Assurance Department (QAD) performs Quality Control testing and process assurance activities for all production plants on Macclesfield Site plus contract work for Pharmaceutical Development.

The Role:

Due to expansion of the business, we currently have multiple opportunities for Quality Control Chemistry Technicians to formally clear or reject products from the Quality Control laboratory teams against agreed Quality Standards within agreed customer service lead times.

Based in the QAD laboratories, you must have the flexibility to work within any one of the testing or environmental monitoring teams and you must be prepared to work in an aseptic environment and successfully acquire an aseptic license.

Responsibilities:

Testing formulated products, raw materials and active pharmaceutical ingredients against registered Quality Specifications you will ensure quality, safety and efficacy prior to delivery to the customer.

You will utilise a wide range of analytical techniques to enable testing to proceed. This would include Dissolution, HPLC (High Performance Liquid Chromatography), UV-Vis, GLC and Infra-Red analysis.

You will ensure that the appropriate quality systems are followed in order for the laboratory to meet its responsibilities with respect to GCLP, GMP and SHE.

In order to optimise processes within the laboratory you will be capable of using LEAN tools and techniques.

Essential Skills Experience:
• Qualified to degree/or equivalent in Chemistry and understanding of a working in a GMP environment
• Experience in basic analytical and chromatographic techniques

Desirable Skills Experience:
• Experience in use of electronic notebooks, and data handling systems
• Experience of working within laboratory Quality Control

AstraZeneca is an equal opportunity employer. AstraZeneca will consider all qualified applicants for employment without discrimination on grounds of disability, sex or sexual orientation, pregnancy or maternity leave status, race or national or ethnic origin, age, religion or belief, gender identity or re-assignment, marital or civil partnership status, protected veteran status (if applicable) or any other characteristic protected by law. AstraZeneca only employs individuals with the right to work in the country/countries where the role is advertised. Read more

Published on 2025/09/10. Modified on 2025/09/10.

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Job description
AstraZeneca

QC Laboratory Technician – Analytical Chemistry

Contract: 12 Month Contract

Location: Macclesfield - Based 100% On-Site

Flexible Working Hours 7.3 hours per day: 07:00 – 15:00 (Monday - Friday) - Possible Weekend Work On Occasion

Annual Benefits/Bonus: Yes

Make a meaningful impact on people’s lives with life-changing medicines

In Quality, our work is important and valued. An unrivalled forward-looking attitude, there’s no better place to work at the forefront and learn how to add real value to a business throughout the lifecycle of our products – discovery, development, and commercialisation. Here you’ll feel empowered to step up, follow the science and evidence to make decisions that put patients first.

Our Macclesfield Campus:

We are now recruiting for analytical laboratory technicians to join our Quality Control team at our Macclesfield site.

Macclesfield is AstraZeneca’s second largest manufacturing and supply site and as a laboratory technician, you will be effectively testing products within the Quality Control Laboratory team against registered specifications to agreed customer service lead times.

The Business Area:

The Analytical Chemistry Group in the Quality Assurance Department (QAD) performs Quality Control testing and process assurance activities for all production plants on Macclesfield Site plus contract work for Pharmaceutical Development.

The Role:

Due to expansion of the business, we currently have multiple opportunities for Quality Control Chemistry Technicians to formally clear or reject products from the Quality Control laboratory teams against agreed Quality Standards within agreed customer service lead times.

Based in the QAD laboratories, you must have the flexibility to work within any one of the testing or environmental monitoring teams and you must be prepared to work in an aseptic environment and successfully acquire an aseptic license.

Responsibilities:

Testing formulated products, raw materials and active pharmaceutical ingredients against registered Quality Specifications you will ensure quality, safety and efficacy prior to delivery to the customer.

You will utilise a wide range of analytical techniques to enable testing to proceed. This would include Dissolution, HPLC (High Performance Liquid Chromatography), UV-Vis, GLC and Infra-Red analysis.

You will ensure that the appropriate quality systems are followed in order for the laboratory to meet its responsibilities with respect to GCLP, GMP and SHE.

In order to optimise processes within the laboratory you will be capable of using LEAN tools and techniques.

Essential Skills Experience:
• Qualified to degree/or equivalent in Chemistry and understanding of a working in a GMP environment
• Experience in basic analytical and chromatographic techniques

Desirable Skills Experience:
• Experience in use of electronic notebooks, and data handling systems
• Experience of working within laboratory Quality Control

AstraZeneca is an equal opportunity employer. AstraZeneca will consider all qualified applicants for employment without discrimination on grounds of disability, sex or sexual orientation, pregnancy or maternity leave status, race or national or ethnic origin, age, religion or belief, gender identity or re-assignment, marital or civil partnership status, protected veteran status (if applicable) or any other characteristic protected by law. AstraZeneca only employs individuals with the right to work in the country/countries where the role is advertised.
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