Microbiologist Team Leader

We are Reckitt

Home to the world's best loved and trusted hygiene, health, and nutrition brands. Our purpose defines why we exist: to protect, heal and nurture in the relentless pursuit of a cleaner, healthier world. We are a global team united by this purpose. Join us in our fight to make access to the highest quality hygiene, wellness, and nourishment a right and not a privilege.

Research and Development

In Research and Development, we're full of highly skilled talents that include Scientists, Engineers, Medical, Clinical and Regulatory professionals - all working to create a cleaner, healthier world. With nine Centres of Excellence, we continually seek out new opportunities by using science, our entrepreneurial flare and our fearless innovation to develop and enhance our existing portfolio, never compromising on quality or performance.

We do the right thing, always, by ensuring we act with responsibility and integrity, by complying with regulatory legislation across the globe, whilst ensuring our products are safe for our consumers and are to the highest quality.

The size of our organisation means you'll have the opportunity to learn and work in different functions within R&D, giving you exposure to different disciplines, teams and environments. You will also have access to our Research and Development Academy, designed to develop our team and allow you to grow in our great organisation.

About the role

To lead the Microbiologist team on a day to day basis, ensuring work is completed on time, to defined procedures in compliance with Good Control Laboratory Practice, thereby providing continuous support to our consumer quality and customer service performance in Bangplee factory.

Your responsibilities

• To lead a team of Microbiologist in Health environment.
• Prioritising day to day workload of the team to meet customer service requirements.
• To have complete ownership for the customer service, quality and cost within their area, including but not limited to overtime.
• To ensure that microbial test results are checked, approved, recorded and available for inspection in accordance with Good Manufacturing & Control Laboratory Practices.
• To understand and follow all necessary Health & Safety systems and ensure that work is consistent with safe working practices.
• To support the application and maintenance of Microbiology laboratory quality systems.
• To provide effective application of Microbial investigation as defined in SOPs.
• To collate, trend and interpret microbiological results. Providing updates to Site Hygienist.
• To be responsible for delegating appropriate tasks to their team whilst retaining ownership.
• To be responsible for the development of Microbiologist in the team.
• To have effective use of appropriate communication to ensure timely resolution with all relevant parties whilst maintaining the positive image of RB and Microbiologist team.
• Support other departments on site regarding Microbial issue.
• Co-responsible for housekeeping, cleanliness and safety in the microbiological laboratory, also responsible for taking care of laboratory facilities to keep them in good condition and ready for use.
• To organize the schedule and plan to microbiologist team to perform Environment monitoring program.
• To ensure that equipment / instrument is maintenance / calibrated in QC laboratory.
• Ensure the team providing Annual Product Reviews (APRs) for each product according to a schedule provided by the local Quality team.
• Participation in management review of process performance, product quality and of the Pharmaceutical quality system and advocating continual improvement.
• Accountable for ensuring laboratory investigations are thorough and accurate and escalation of confirmed Out of Specification (OOS) and Out Of Trend (OOT) results in line with global standards and any local SOPs.
• To be responsible for equipment qualification for Microbiological equipment to ensure the equipment is readiness to use.
• To understand and follow all necessary Health & Safety systems and ensure that work is consistent with safe working practices.
• Coach and mentor to less experience microbiologist and staff; check quality of their work and help them resolve problems.
• Perform other related jobs that may be assigned by the superior.
• Require basic knowledge about good Hygienic Design.

The experience we're looking for

• Bachelor degree in Microbiology, or related field
• Minimum 5 years experience in Microbiology of manufacturing site, preferable within multinational Pharmaceutical Business.
• Knowledge in Microbiology method validation and PET test is essential.
• Good Command in English.
• Computer skills requirements: MS office skills (Word, Excel, Power Point) at intermediate level.

The skills for success

Commercial Awareness, Business Partnership, Collaboration, Partnership building, Ability to challenge the status quo, Propose improvement, Accountability, Adaptability, Collaborator, R&D, Product Lifecycle Management.

What we offer

With inclusion at the heart of everything we do, working alongside our four global Employee Resource Groups, we support our people at every step of their career journey, helping them to succeed in their own individual way. We invest in the wellbeing of our people through parental benefits, an Employee Assistance Program to promote mental health, and life insurance for all employees globally. We have a range of other benefits in line with the local market. Through our global share plans we offer the opportunity to save and share in Reckitt's potential future successes. For eligible roles, we also offer short-term incentives to recognise, appreciate and reward your work for delivering outstanding results. You will be rewarded in line with Reckitt's pay for performance philosophy.

Equality

We recognise that in real life, great people don't always 'tick all the boxes'. That's why we hire for potential as well as experience. Even if you don't meet every point on the job description, if this role and our company feels like a good fit for you, we still want to hear from you. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, disability or medical condition; colour, ethnicity, race, citizenship, and national origin; religion, faith; pregnancy, family status and caring responsibilities; sexual orientation; sex, gender identity, gender expression, and transgender identity; protected veteran status; size or any other basis protected by appropriate law.