Job description:
 

Do you want to develop your career in exciting new medical technologies? We deliver life-changing gene therapies to patients, and so can you.

Oxford Biomedica’s Manufacturing, Science and Technology Team is responsible for process and technology development activities from early concept through to product registration for market approval, and to ensure that OXB’s new and existing manufacturing processes can deliver the productivity, performance, quality and cost benefits required in line with regulatory guidance.

We are currently recruiting for a Process Engineer or Scientist to join the team.  One of the main purposes of this role is to plan, execute and report completion of MSAT-related projects or tasks in alignment with department objectives

Your responsibilities in this role would be:

• The delivery of assigned technical projects/tasks working directly with your Manager to ensure project time lines are met according to internal and/or customer needs
• Trouble shooting, identification and problem solving in the plant for process and quality issues of existing processes
• Supporting the implementation of new processes/products into OXB facilities and third party CMOs
• Supports improvement projects to achieve increased productivity improvement, quality and reliability improvements
• Analyses batch records and quality results and monitors consistency of operations by using appropriate database and statistical tools; propose and implement corrective and improvement actions
• Work will be conducted in compliance with OXB’s Quality, Safety and Environmental systems and procedures

To be successful in this role, you will have the following skills and experience:

• Degree or equivalent experience in Chemical or Biochemical Engineering with an appropriate level of relevant experience.
• Expertise in bioprocess design, scale-up and commercialisation
• Knowledge of GMP manufacturing and including quality and regulatory requirements
• Knowledge and relevant experience in the scale up and industrialisation of GMP manufacturing bioprocesses
• Understanding of quality management systems, environmental, health and safety aspects of the work and regulatory requirements
• Experience of using statistical data analysis tools
• Understanding of process hazard analysis (PHA) methodologies such as FMEA, HAZOP and HACCP would be desirable

Do you want to feel inspired every day? We’re future-focused and our business is growing rapidly. We succeed together through passion, commitment and team-work, and so can you.

Collaborate. Contribute. Change lives.

No agencies please

We offer:

We are a pioneering gene therapy business, and our mission is delivering life changing gene therapies to patients. We work together, motivated to make a difference, and so can you.

We are pioneers; no one else does what we do.

Gene therapy is the treatment of disease by the delivery of therapeutic DNA into a patient’s cells. It is transforming medicine as we know it, long term and potentially curative treatments for a wide range of diseases are now possible.

We are at the forefront of this exciting area. We have a strong reputation in gene therapy, with world leading expertise in lentiviral vectors. We have a leading, integrated platform of exclusive technologies to design, develop and bioprocess unique gene based medicines, both in house and with partners.

We drive credible science to realise incredible results.

Whether you’re motivated by the discovery and development of product candidates within Research, or by cutting edge tools and technologies including AI and automation of our contract development and manufacturing organisation, we can offer you a career like no other. We are excited about our future. Join us and change lives.