Full Job Description
Qualification Requirements
• 5 GCSEs at Grades C/4 or above (or equivalent) including Mathematics and English
• Will have, or are predicted, A Levels equalling 104 UCAS points, including Biology at Grade C or above plus and additional Science or Mathematics.
• Equivalent Level 3 qualifications (e.g., BTEC) will also be considered (with a minimum requirement of 104 UCAS points
Salary - £25,740 per annum
Benefits
- Holiday Allowance - 27 Days Holiday Allowance, plus Bank Holidays
- Pension - Employee 5%, Employer 3%
- Employee Assistance programme
- On site-Parking
- Onsite Canteen
- Student discount card (NUS)
- Dedicated mentor for the duration of your apprenticeship
Location - Renaissance Way, Speke, Liverpool L24 9JW
Working Hours
Initially Monday to Thursday, 8am – 16:45pm, Fridays, 8am – 1pm
Unpaid Lunch break, 15 minute paid break in the morning and afternoon.
Duration - 48 months
Start Date - September 2025
Interview Date - Assessment day end of April 2025
Closing Date for Applications - 3rd April 2025
To Apply
Please click the apply now button to complete our online application form. If you have any difficulty in applying, please contact us at [email protected]
Job Description
Job Responsibilities
The responsibilities of an apprentice process scientist include:
• Supports the day to day running of the Pilot Plant and MS&T labs.
• Supports the day to day running of seed manufacturing area.
• Maintains facility documentation in compliance with site standards Supports simple change controls for process modifications or process improvements.
• Supports colleagues in the drafting and execution of technical protocols.
• Participation in quality risk assessments
• HSE risk assessment completion, review and adherence
• Archiving of laboratory documentation,
• Ordering of reagents and consumables
• Maintenance of sample and reagent stores
The vacancy also includes rotation around different functions of the business to gain experience in multiple areas of the vaccine manufacturing process.
Candidate Requirements
Skills required
- Sound knowledge of life sciences, with an interest in vaccines/pharmaceutical manufacture.
- Awareness of good manufacturing practise (cGMP)
- Hard-working
- Attention to detail
- Ability to solve problems, interact with others and manage a varied workload
- Communicates with clarity, purpose and efficiently
Personal Qualities
- Enthusiastic attitude and approach to teamwork with positive influencing and listening skills
- High energy level; hard working; makes things happen
- Demonstrates sound judgement when making decisions
- Self-driven and able to set personal goals which are realistic and challenging
- Change agile, flexible, and resilient
- Desire to work in a laboratory environment
Training To Be Delivered
Qualification to be delivered: Laboratory Scientist BSc (Hons) Applied Bioscience
Apprenticeship Standard: Laboratory Scientist Degree Apprenticeship BSc (Hons) Bioscience
Training Provider: Manchester Metropolitan University
Delivery model:
The programme is primarily taught through tutor-supported online study, part-time over four years.
Apprentices will attend a two-day induction at the University to help them get to know each other and balance undergraduate study with working full-time. They will also attend a week-long residential at our campus in central Manchester once a year, in addition to a two-day mini-residential in the first year.
Things To Be Considered
When you join CSL Seqirus, you join a team dedicated to protecting people and communities from influenza. It's a feeling of purpose and possibility that inspires us every day.
About CSL Seqirus
At CSL Seqirus, we are driven by just one goal - to lessen the severity and impact of influenza, which can reach epidemic or even pandemic proportions with life-threatening consequences. Every year our influenza vaccines help protect millions of people. We find solutions to big, complex, challenging problems, and we see the results in the world around us. Then we do it all over again the following year.
CSL Seqirus is one of the world’s largest influenza vaccine companies. We were created when CSL Limited, acquired the Novartis influenza vaccine business and combined it with vaccine subsidiary, bioCSL.
Our long-established parent, CSL Limited, has a rich heritage in influenza dating back to the Spanish flu pandemic. Our manufacturing facility in Melbourne, Australia, has been producing flu vaccine for nearly five decades.
Now it’s joined by Seqirus Liverpool in the UK, a Centre of Excellence for egg-based influenza vaccine manufacturing. It is one of the biggest biotechnology sites in Europe and the only injectable influenza vaccine manufacturer in the UK. It also produces the only licensed adjuvanted seasonal influenza vaccine.
In addition, Seqirus has a state-of-the-art vaccine producing facility at Holly Springs site in the US. The use of a novel cell culture-based process is an alternative to traditional egg-based influenza vaccine production, and gives Seqirus vital additional capacity, particularly in the event of a pandemic.
With cutting-edge facilities, technologies, and technical expertise, Seqirus will be a reliable supplier of seasonal influenza vaccine with the ability to rapidly respond to pandemic threats.
By focusing on disease prevention, Seqirus plays a key role in the company's core mission: keeping people healthy, alleviating suffering, and enhancing quality of life.
This apprenticeship will be based at the CSL Seqirus Liverpool Influenza Production Facility in Speke, Liverpool. We are the only end to end flu manufacturing operation in the UK.
