Are you looking to join an innovative, growing, Scottish SME?
FlexMedical Solutions provide contract design, development and manufacturing services to medical device OEM's from our site in Livingston.
The business is going through a phase of exciting expansion and we are seeking a Product Development Technician to join our tight-knit team and play an active role in the company's development. This role will bring hands-on, technical expertise to the business and use laboratory techniques to formulate customer solutions.
The role is a varied scientific role day-to-day, involving customer interaction, project management, product and process design and development. As a qualified scientist, having gained experience in a laboratory, you will understand in-vitro diagnostics and may have some specific experience in reagent development and common assay detection methods.
Your time will be spent working on some of our customer specific contracts (developing and manufacturing diagnostic products on their behalf), and also working on internal development programmes.
Due to the size of the business, this is a role for an individual who will thrive in a scale-up environment and who will be an active contributor to its growth and therefore benefitting from exposure and wide responsibility.
Key Responsibilities
Reporting to the CSO, you will: -
- Build reagents / formulate customer solutions to their requirements.
- Perform tasks on FMS dispensing systems to accurately deposit solutions and perform subsequent gravimetric analysis.
- Manage all on-site chemicals / reagents with regards to inventory, H&S, storage and containment.
- Execute and report lab experiments in support of external client projects and internal development programmes.
- Document project work in a compliant manner and in line with the FMS quality management system.
Essential Technical Skills
You will: -
- Be competent using routine laboratory equipment.
- Have some experience in building reagents and formulations from first principles
- Be able to summarise and perform basic statistical analysis on data.
- Understand Good Manufacturing and Good Laboratory Practices (GxP).
- Be able to record data and report outcomes in a compliant manner