# Senior Microbiologist

**Company**: GlaxoSmithKline
**Location**: Jurong
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: contract
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

We are seeking a Senior Microbiologist to act as the site microbiology subject matter expert, providing microbiologist expertise and developing monitoring strategy and operation framework.

The successful candidate will ensure that all site utilities, water, environmental monitoring, and product testing activities are properly analysed and executed, and the results recorded in full compliance with current Good Manufacturing Practice (cGMP) and regulatory requirements that meet the defined quality standards.

**Key Responsibilities**

- Ensures that all water, environmental monitoring, site utilities and product testing samples are analysed and tested according to the stipulated quality requirements so as to provide accurate test results for correct usage decisions.

- Develops a strategy for the site with respect to environmental monitoring and water systems.

- Performs microbiological risk assessment for all non-sterile products.

- Ensures that external service providers and suppliers for microbiology laboratory are managed in accordance to GSK requirements.

- Ensures regulatory compliance, performs L1 audit and supports L2/L3/L4 audit as Microbiology Subject Matter Expert (SME).

- Leads or participates in investigations arising from micro-related and utilities investigations, incidents and accurately assesses the impact of the failure so as to make appropriate recommendations on remedial actions for follow-up.

- Works with the relevant R&D groups to support micro-related activities and micro-risk assessment for New Product Introduction, ensuring that the activities are carried out in accordance to the required standards and procedures.

- Works closely with external staff and at-line level to enable the localization and transfer of technology / knowledge / methodologies into standard order fulfillment activities.

**Requirements**

- Minimum degree in Microbiology or Life Sciences.

- Minimum 3-5 years' experience in an analytical environment, preferably in the pharmaceutical industry.

- Good knowledge of GMP.

- Basic knowledge and on-going awareness of regulatory requirements (includes safety) on controlled environment and water system.

- Very good knowledge of microbiological test methods.

- Good knowledge of manufacturing processes and plant layouts of GlaxoSmithKline Manufacturing.

- Good communication skills.

- Basic financial management skills.

- Basic knowledge of business process within GSK.

- People Management skills.

## Skills

### Required
- GxP Regulations
- Quality Assurance (QA)
- Quality Control (QC)
- Risk Awareness
- Testing Operations
- Microbiology
- Life Sciences

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