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Production Manager

Woking, UK
We’re supporting a leading pharmaceutical manufacturer entering an exciting phase of site development, including capital projects, equipment upgrades, and ongoing operational improvements. This is a unique opportunity to take ownership of production and engineering at a specialised, small-scale site where your leadership and hands‑on capability will make an immediate and lasting impact.
 
As Production Manager, you’ll oversee all site engineering activities, including both planned and reactive maintenance, alongside responsibility for delivering Capex projects. You’ll lead a small but highly skilled team while remaining close to the tools yourself - whether writing technical documentation, supporting investigations, or stepping in to resolve engineering challenges directly.
 
This role suits someone who thrives in a practical, fast‑paced GMP environment and enjoys leading from the front.
 
Standard working hours apply, but flexibility is essential as you will participate in the on‑call and weekend rota. Overtime/TOIL is available.
 
Responsibilities:
  • Leading day‑to‑day maintenance, servicing, and engineering support at a regulated GMP site
  • Managing and delivering Capex projects (equipment, facilities, site upgrades)
  • Providing hands‑on engineering support where required—this is not a desk‑only role
  • Ensuring compliance with GMP and supporting audits, documentation, and quality investigations
  • Guiding and developing a small engineering team, fostering a proactive and safe working culture
  • Supporting sterile/aseptic processes (experience preferred but not essential)
  • Owning engineering documentation, maintenance schedules, and technical procedures
  • Participating in the on‑call rota and occasional weekend work
 
What We’re Looking For:
  • Strong engineering background within a GMP pharmaceutical environment (essential)
  • Experience in sterile/aseptic manufacturing (ideal, not essential)
  • Practical hands‑on capability - comfortable writing documents and picking up tools
  • Proven people leadership or supervisory experience
  • Capex project experience alongside maintenance leadership
  • Willingness to participate in on‑call/weekend rota
  • Someone proactive, adaptable, and eager to lead from the front
 
We're moving quickly on this role - if you're interested, apply early as the advert may close ahead of schedule.

Engineering Consultant

Woking, UK
We’re supporting a leading pharmaceutical organisation that is entering a significant period of growth, with major site expansion, new cleanroom and laboratory facilities, and multiple capital projects underway. The team is seeking an experienced Engineering Consultant to provide hands-on project support over the next 6 months (likely extending to 9 months or more).
 
You’ll be joining a dynamic, fast-paced site where visibility, ownership, and hands-on involvement are key. In this role, you’ll be embedded on site, actively driving engineering projects forward and supporting critical CAPEX initiatives.
 
This is a varied, practical role ideal for someone who enjoys getting stuck in, being highly visible on the shop floor, and supporting projects through from planning to hands-on execution.
 
Responsibilities
You’ll play a central role in delivering a variety of engineering projects across a fast-expanding pharmaceutical site, including:
  • Cleanroom and laboratory expansion projects
  • New equipment installations and commissioning
  • Site conversions and facility upgrades
  • Support to new site build activities
  • General CAPEX project execution
  • Ensuring GMP compliance throughout all project stages
 
Requirements
  • Strong background in GMP pharmaceutical engineering
  • Sterile/aseptic or Radiopharmaceutical experience highly advantageous
  • Proven experience delivering CAPEX / engineering projects in a regulated manufacturing environment
  • Ability to hit the ground running with minimal oversight
  • Must be comfortable being hands-on and actively involved in on-site activity
  • Any mechanical/electrical capability is beneficial
  • Must be available within 1 month maximum (no long notice periods)
  • Must be willing to be physically present on site (not remote)
 
We're moving quickly on this role - if you're interested, apply early as the advert may close ahead of schedule.

Regulatory Quality Assurance Manager

United Kingdom
Location: Sheffield / Manchester / Blackburn / Stoke-on-Trent (can be based at either of these locations)
Permanent | On-site (5 days/week)
 
We’re supporting a growing pharmaceutical manufacturing organisation operating across several UK sites. With expanding development programmes, evolving regulatory expectations and increased operational complexity, this is an exciting opportunity to step into a pivotal role that blends Regulatory Affairs and Quality Assurance.
 
As Regulatory QA Manager, you’ll provide regulatory leadership across multiple licensed facilities, ensuring inspection readiness, GMP/GDP compliance and robust quality systems. This is a hands‑on, influential role where you will act as the main liaison with regulatory authorities, support both commercial and IMP activities, and drive harmonisation of standards across the network.
 
This position is ideal for a strong Regulatory professional with QA exposure who is ready to shape regulatory frameworks, strengthen quality culture and support cutting‑edge sterile product operations.
 
Key Responsibilities:
  • Provide regulatory and QA oversight across multiple licensed sterile manufacturing sites, ensuring consistent GMP, GDP and MHRA compliance.
  • Act as the primary contact for regulatory authorities, supporting inspections, audits, submissions and ongoing compliance commitments.
  • Lead regulatory activities for commercial and IMP products, including review of IMPDs, pre‑submission work, post‑approval activities and clinical trial supply documentation.
  • Maintain and manage site licences, variations and regulatory submissions.
  • Support and advise site teams on quality and regulatory improvements, inspection readiness and continual improvement initiatives.
  • Oversee harmonisation of quality systems including deviations, CAPAs, change control, documentation and risk management.
  • Provide QA input into product development, validation, technology transfer and sterile processes.
  • Contribute to implementation of a new electronic Document/Quality Management System.
  • Collaborate with QA, QC, Operations and QP teams across the UK network.
 
Requirements:
  • Degree or higher in a scientific, quality or regulatory discipline (or equivalent experience).
  • Minimum 5 years’ Regulatory Affairs experience, including IMP and clinical trial supply exposure.
  • Strong knowledge of UK/EU GMP, MHRA expectations and GxP compliance.
  • Experience in radiopharmacy, sterile manufacturing, aseptic processing or related environments (highly desirable).
  • Some Quality Assurance experience, capable of supporting QA initiatives and projects.
  • Experience working across multi‑site operations and regulatory inspections.
  • Excellent communication, organisation and stakeholder‑management skills.
  • Self‑motivated, detail‑oriented and able to work proactively and independently.
  • Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications.
 
We're moving quickly on this role - if you're interested, apply early as the advert may close ahead of schedule.

Validation Officer (Interim)

Wimbledon, London, UK

We are currently supporting a well‑established healthcare manufacturer undergoing a period of significant expansion across multiple sites. Due to a growing portfolio of CapEx projects and increased operational demand, the organisation is seeking an experienced Validation Officer to provide critical support to the validation function.

Having partnered with this business for over 15 years, we have a strong understanding of their culture and high expectations around quality, communication, and collaboration. This role provides the opportunity to contribute to a series of meaningful projects within a GMP‑regulated environment where natural health, nutraceutical and pharmaceutical products are all manufactured to pharmaceutical standards.

While this is an interim role, it represents an exciting opportunity to make a visible impact on key technical and site expansion initiatives.

 

Key Responsibilities:

  • Leading the process to bring a previously outsourced filling line back in‑house, including full process reversal, tech transfer, and process development activities.
  • Delivering validation activities across equipment, systems, and processes (IQ, OQ, PQ).
  • Supporting equipment installation, upgrades, replacements, and expansions across the manufacturing facility.
  • Contributing to multiple new and ongoing projects.

 

Experience & Requirements:

  • Strong experience in process validation and the full validation lifecycle (IQ/OQ/PQ).
  • Experience with tech transfer, equipment installation, and modifying existing systems.
  • Demonstrated experience in GMP and pharmaceutical manufacturing.
  • (Bonus) Experience in project management or supporting CapEx programmes.
  • Ability to integrate quickly into a fast-paced team and adapt to evolving project needs.

 

Contract Details

  • 3‑month contract (with opportunity for extension based on performance and project load).
  • Ideally full-time (37.5 hours/week) or 4 days per week (30 hours).
  • On-site in Wimbledon.
  • Start date: ASAP (within 2-4 weeks preferred).

CMC Manager

Woking, UK

We're partnered with a growing pharmaceutical organisation expanding its CMC team across multiple UK sites. This is a newly created role driven by operational demand, offering real scope to shape CMC strategy and get hands-on with impactful projects from day one.

We're looking for an experienced CMC Manager to play a pivotal role in bringing cutting-edge pharmaceutical products from concept to GMP manufacturing. Working at the intersection of research and production, you’ll help transform innovative science into robust, scalable processes while supporting the introduction of new pharmaceutical products and major site expansion projects.

This is a highly visible role where you’ll act as the go-to expert for process development, validation, and manufacturing readiness in a fast-growing environment.

 

What We're Looking For:

Option 1 – Radiopharmacy Background

  • Experience in a radiopharmaceutical environment with a solid understanding of how the wider business operates
  • Minimum 2 years in radiopharmaceutical production, QC or QA

 

Option 2 – Project Management & Sterile Manufacturing Background

  • Strong project management experience - implementation, structured planning and proactive project delivery
  • Background in sterile pharmaceutical manufacturing

 

In both cases, we're looking for someone who is:

  • Hands-on, dynamic and proactive
  • A strong communicator and persuasive collaborator
  • Comfortable with occasional travel across Europe (up to 10%)
  • Degree in pharmaceutical sciences, chemistry or a related discipline

 

We're moving quickly on this role - if you're interested, apply early as the advert may close ahead of schedule.

Change Manager

United Kingdom

Change Lead – Learning Management System (LMS) Transformation (GxP)

We’re looking for a hands‑on Change Lead to drive the successful delivery and adoption of a new enterprise Learning Management System. In this role, you’ll turn the change strategy into practical, people‑centred activities across stakeholder engagement, communications, training readiness, and adoption support—ensuring the programme lands smoothly and delivers real business value.

You’ll work closely with Quality, Digital Enterprise Capabilities, project leadership, business stakeholders, and vendor partners to guide impacted teams through the transition and set the organisation up for long‑term success.

 

What you’ll do:

  • Lead day‑to‑day change activities, aligned with key project milestones and go‑live readiness.
  • Translate the change strategy into an integrated plan covering communications, engagement, learning, and adoption.
  • Conduct impact and stakeholder analysis to identify risks, readiness needs, and mitigation actions.
  • Build and manage stakeholder engagement plans and activate a change champion network.
  • Create and deliver clear, engaging communications and end‑user materials.
  • Support training planning, readiness, and learning-material quality.
  • Track change actions, adoption indicators, risks, and resistance themes.
  • Support governance, reporting, decision‑making, and transition to BAU.

 

What you bring:

  • Experience in change management, within pharma GxP regulated environments.
  • Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
  • Familiarity with GxP, IT compliance, data privacy, and validation requirements.
  • Experience with LMS platforms (GxP LMS preferred).
  • Ability to plan, coordinate, create content, and drive execution.
  • Skilled with collaboration tools (Teams, Jira, Miro, etc.).
  • Change‑management certifications (PROSCI, APMG, IOIC, etc.) are a plus.

 

Work environment:

  • Fully remote, with occasional travel (Dublin/Cambridge/London).
  • Some flexibility required for late‑day meetings with US West Coast stakeholders.

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