Quality Control Supervisor

Quality Control Supervisor (12 month secondment opportunity)

Location: Edinburgh

Hours: 40 hours per week Monday-Friday with core hours 10:00-16:00

Business Unit: Almac Sciences

Open To: Internal applicants (see additional information below)

Ref No.: HRJOB12038

The Role

This is an exciting secondment opportunity to take on a hands-on technical leadership role within a fast-paced GMP Quality Control environment, supporting high-throughput peptide manufacturing projects and the testing and release of finished products, intermediates and raw materials.

You will lead and support a team of Quality Control Analysts, planning and assigning analytical work to ensure client manufacturing projects and associated stability programmes are delivered accurately and on time. Working closely with Production Managers, you will monitor workloads and project progress, adjust priorities where required, and help identify and resolve technical and quality-related issues.

A key part of the role will be providing technical and chromatographic expertise, including planning and performing method development and validation activities and troubleshooting client-provided analytical methods. You will complete data review when required, contribute to protocols, reports and SOPs, and provide technical guidance to less experienced scientists and direct reports.

Alongside your technical responsibilities, you will manage and develop your team through effective leadership and performance appraisals, represent Quality Control during external audits and provide technical updates to clients in calls and at on-site meetings.

Throughout the role, you will play an important part in maintaining high standards of compliance and on-time delivery, ensuring all activities are carried out in accordance with company Health and Safety requirements and established procedures.

Key Requirements

Essential Criteria

· Degree level qualification (or equivalent) in a Life Science related discipline

· Previous analytical experience within the pharmaceutical or fine chemical industries.

· Working knowledge of HPLC and mass spectrometry.

Desirable Criteria

· Degree level qualification (or equivalent) in an Analytical related discipline

· LCMS experience

· Experience of drug substance and/or drug product analysis in a GMP environment

· Experience in HPLC method development and/or tech transfer and/or validation

· Experience in supervising staff

· Working knowledge of multiple analytical techniques

Additional information

For internal candidates applying to this fixed term cover position as a secondment opportunity, please contact your line manager to ensure that you can be released from your current position for the duration of the secondment should your application prove successful. If authorisation is not obtained from your manager and you proceed with your application, you forfeit your right to return to your current post at the end of the secondment period

Closing Date

We will no longer be accepting applications after 9pm on Wednesday 11th November 2026.