Chemistry Graduate

Chemistry Graduates: Why You Should Apply

Start your career in a GMP laboratory: You'll join a chemistry testing lab as a QC Technician, learning how raw materials and finished products are tested, how a stability programme runs, and how a QC department stays audit-ready.

Know what you're applying for: Around 80% of this role is project coordination and administration, and 20% is bench work. It suits a graduate who wants to understand the whole testing process, from booking a sample in to issuing the certificate, rather than someone who only wants time on the instruments.

Build your day around you: Flexitime lets you start any time between 7:30am and 9:30am and finish between 3:30pm and 5:30pm. Beat the traffic, or get to the gym while it's quiet.

Grow with a busy lab: New business is coming in fast, and the small project team is set to expand. Technicians who prove themselves can progress towards a QC Analyst role, typically after 12 to 24 months.

Your salary, benefits and hours of work

• £27,000 and annual bonus
• Flexitime: start any time between 7:30am and 9:30am, finish between 3:30pm and 5:30pm
• Monday to Friday days, no weekends or bank holidays
• Shutdown from Christmas to the New Year
• Holidays: 24 days plus 8 bank holidays, increasing with length of service (one extra day for every 5 years, to a maximum of 25 years)
• Full training from day one

What you'll do as a Graduate QC Technician

You'll support the QC project team, keeping samples moving and results getting back to customers on time.

• Book stability and project samples into the QC systems and plan your workload with the Team Leader
• Organise despatch of samples to sub-contract partner laboratories, raising purchase orders and labelling correctly
• Collect and trend data sets, create Certificates of Analysis and draft customer quotes
• Prepare reagents, carry out sensory evaluations and run basic sample analysis to documented procedures and GMP
• Help review pharmaceutical methods and specifications against new versions of the European Pharmacopoeia
• Support the stability programme, technical documentation, consumables ordering and continuous improvement projects

What you'll need to apply

• A BSc in Chemistry, Analytical Chemistry, Biochemistry, Pharmaceutical Science or a closely related chemistry-based degree
• A genuine eye for detail and strong organisational skills
• Good computer literacy (Microsoft Office 365) and willingness to learn new systems