Quality Student Placement

by Boehringer Ingelheim

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Deadline: 8th November 2024
Start Date: September 2025
Salary: £24,000
Length: Placement (10 Months+)
Roles: Logistics and Operations, Business Operations
Location: South East
City: Pirbright

Quality Student Placement - 5 Opportunities Available

Responsibilities & Duties

1 x Quality Control – Restricted Area 

Support the Quality Control Department in the testing and release of Foot & Mouth disease antigen and vaccine batches. To perform routine testing related to active ingredient and finished product as well as utilities and environmental testing as required to maintain compliance on a GMP manufacturing site.

  • Final product and in process sample testing including infectivity assays, serological assays and sterility testing.
  • Performing microbial identifications & assisting in contamination investigations
  • Read and process data, including generating material for trend analysis from site environmental monitoring.
  • Preparation of test materials and reagents including cell culture.
  • Participation and use of Quality Management Systems.
  • Participation in department continuous improvement activities
  • Sample reception & reconciliation.
  • Assist in the maintenance of the Quality Control area in accordance with GMP, EHS & Bio-safety regulations.

1 x Quality Control – Controlled Area 

Support the Quality department in the development and implementation of quality systems.

  • Participation and use of GxP Quality Management Systems including but not limited to cGdP, cGMP and cGLP focused practices.
  • Ownership and partial co-management in the development and implementation of controlled document management, GdP and electronic ELARPA archiving systems for a restricted Quality Controlled Laboratory area
  • Participation in department continuous improvement projects
  • Support in standard cGLP activities such as sample reception & reconciliation
  • Raw material sampling and testing.
  • Assist in the maintenance of the Quality Control area in accordance with GMP & EHS regulations.

1 x Quality Assurance – Batch Review 

Assist the Product Quality Assurance team in delivery of strategic veterinary products. Our team’s main priorities are batch record review and providing quality assurance support to production and quality control departments. You will be supporting batch record reviewers in the following activities:

  • Collation and review of batch manufacturing records
  • Preparation of batch certificates
  • Document archiving
  • Assistance with QA review of batch manufacturing records
  • Checks of products for transfer from quarantine and dispatch
  • Involvement in housekeeping audits in production departments

1 x Quality Assurance – Validation Execution

The main purpose of this role is as a member of the Quality Team to support validation and quality assurance activities for the Pirbright Site.

As part of this role you will be:

  • Executing validation tests/protocols.
  • Creating documentation and reports across the entire validation life cycle.
  • Working together with other members of the Validation Team and Quality Assurance to ensure compliance with internal and external regulations.
  • Supporting maintenance of the revalidation schedule
  • Document management

1 x Quality Management – Quality Systems 

To provide support to the Quality Systems Team in maintaining and developing the quality system to support the manufacturing sites production activities.

  • Support the Change Control Committee
  • Support the CAPA Committee
  • Support quality continuous improvement projects
  • Support QA representatives in production areas
  • Analyse quality metrics to identify quality trends
  • Work on projects as required

Requirements

  • Applicants will be studying for a BSc Biology, Chemistry, Biochemistry or other Biological Sciences degree.
  • 3 A levels at grade BBC (minimum) with at least one grade coming from a science subject.
  • Applicants must have the ability for independent travel to work and other sites.
  • Applicants must be able to comply with bio-safety regulations that apply to working in a SAPO4 facility.
  • Applicants must have the right to work in the UK.

WHY BOEHRINGER INGELHEIM? 

Quality Control  

  • You will gain experience & transferable skills from working in a dynamic and progressive Quality Control GMP environment.
  • You will be trained in Quality Management Systems and Local Quality Management Structure across local, divisional and global organizations
  • You will have have exposure to a continuous improvement culture. 
  • Working in a team but will also develop ability to work on own initiative

QA Batch Review 

  • You will gain experience in Good Manufacturing Practice
  • You will become familiar with batch manufacturing records (BMR)
  • You will become familiar with vaccine production process, from active ingredient production to vaccine formulation
  • You will have a direct impact on timely delivery of strategic medicinal products

QA Validation 

  • As a family-owned company, Boehringer Ingelheim knows that being dedicated at work means balancing your private life with all its challenges.
  • Working for a well-recognised pharmaceutical company will set a good initial exposure to Good Manufacturing Practices (Eudralex Requirements).
  • Working for BIAH Pirbright, a biopharmaceutical company, will give you the opportunity to recognise the standards and regulations for Biologicals 
  • Working for a site that manufactures vaccines will give you the opportunity to recognise the standards and regulations for Aseptic Manufacturing.

Quality Systems 

  • Understand the process for manufacturing a medical vaccine
  • Understand the quality and regulatory requirements in the manufacture of a pharmaceutical product
  • Analysis and reporting of data
  • Understand the dynamics of the working environment and improve collaboration and influencing skills

Our People Promise 

Develop your own path

We encourage and guide our people to develop a career path in a workplace that is independent, authentic and bold.  

We support finding the work-life balance that supports goals, growth and wellbeing.  

Make millions of lives better

We’re grounded in a strong purpose – Transforming lives for generations.

Our people have the drive to make a difference in the world and to make the lives of millions better. 

See strengths in our differences

Our people are the beating heart of Boehringer Ingelheim, and know success hinges on the many, not the few. 

We thrive in a culture that knows our differences are our strengths.  

Break new ground

We grow from exploration, always embracing the lessons we learn along the way.

We celebrate the small wins because they lead us to life-changing discoveries.

About Boehringer Ingelheim

Boehringer Ingelheim is working on breakthrough therapies that transform lives, today and for generations to come. As a leading research-driven biopharmaceutical company, the company creates value through innovation in areas of high unmet medical need. Founded in 1885 and family-owned ever since, Boehringer Ingelheim takes a long-term perspective. More than 52,000 employees serve over 130 markets in the three business areas, Human Pharma, Animal Health, and Biopharmaceutical Contract Manufacturing.

Our focus is on long-term performance rather than being limited by short-term profits. Boehringer Ingelheim create value through innovation with a clear goal: to provide more health and transform the lives of both humans and animals.

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