Full Job Description
CSL Seqirus are looking to recruit a Laboratory Analyst, working in the Quality Control Department. As part of your role, you will carry out routine testing, project work and laboratory support activities. The successful applicant will be rotated through the different QC departments including Bioassay, Microbiology and Analytical chemistry and exposed to a variety of other functions across the business.
This is a fantastic opportunity to start your Career.
Qualification Requirements
5 GCSEs at Grades C/4 or above (or equivalent) including Mathematics and English, and
Will have, or are predicted, A Levels equalling 104 UCAS points, including Biology at Grade C or above plus and additional Science or Mathematics, or
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
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Holiday Allowance -
Equivalent to 27 days per year @7.5 hours per day
- Pension -3% Employer and minimum 5% employee
- Employee Assistance programme
- On site-Parking
- Onsite Canteen
- Student discount card (NUS)
- Dedicated mentor for the duration of your apprenticeship
Location - London, UK
Working Hours
Initially 8am to 4.45pm Monday to Thursday and 8am to 1pm on Friday. Changing to shift work within the first 6 months – working pattern will vary throughout the apprenticeship to match rotations.
Duration - 48 months
Start Date - September 2025
Interview Date - Assessment Day end of April
Closing Date for Applications - 3rd April 2025
To Apply
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Job Description
CSL Seqirus are looking to recruit a Laboratory Analyst, working in the Quality Control Department. As part of your role, you will carry out routine testing, project work and laboratory support activities. The successful applicant will be rotated through the different QC departments including Bioassay, Microbiology and Analytical chemistry and exposed to a variety of other functions across the business.
This is a fantastic opportunity to start your Career.
Job Responsibilities
The primary responsibility of a QC analyst is to compliantly perform laboratory testing, data review and data interpretation in accordance with approved Standard Operating Procedures. It is expected that analysts consistently work to the highest standards of cGMP (as defined in the EU GMP Annexes and FDA CFRs) and in accordance with the uppermost standards of HSE.
QC analysts also complete other laboratory tasks such as:
- Instrument Maintenance and Calibration
- Reagent and Standard Qualification
- Initiation of deviation investigations
- Updates and reviews of standard operating procedures
- Participation in quality risk assessments
- HSE risk assessment completion, review and adherence
- Archiving of laboratory documentation,
- Ordering of reagents and consumables
- Maintenance of QC 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: BSc (Hons) Bioscience
Apprenticeship Standard: Laboratory Scientist
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.
Future Prospects
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.
CSL Seqirus is the only influenza vaccine manufacturer with the flexibility of two industrial scale production technologies across the world with facilities in the US, UK and Australia. Our global operations team produce and distribute vaccines to protect people from seasonal and pandemic influenza across the world.
Get stuck into an apprenticeship to launch a career in anything from science and technology to quality, manufacturing operations, supply chain, regulatory affairs and many other areas.
Apprenticeship scheme, run in partnership with Cogent Skills, offers the best of both worlds. You’ll work with world-leaders in your field. You’ll study towards a nationally recognised academic qualification. And all the time, you’ll be earning a highly competitive salary.
The apprentice must be able to demonstrate the required attitudes, behaviours and interpersonal skills associated with the professional workplace. The apprentice must be willing to commit an amount of personal time to study. Please ensure you check out travel options to be able to commute to the workplace
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.
