🧑 🔬QC Equipment Team Leader – Pharmaceutical / GMP Laboratory

📍 North West | 💷 £42,000–£48,000 | 🧪 Permanent – 100% site‑based

Are you a QC professional who thrives on keeping laboratory equipment running at peak performance, ensuring data integrity, and maintaining audit-ready standards?

One of our long-standing pharmaceutical partners is expanding and now seeking a QC Equipment Team Leader to take ownership of QC instrumentation, equipment lifecycles and key computerized systems across a busy GMP environment.

This is a hands-on leadership role with real influence — ideal for someone who enjoys developing people, improving systems, and driving compliance excellence.

What You’ll Be Doing as QC Equipment Team Leader

• Leading the full lifecycle of QC laboratory equipment — particularly HPLC systems — from procurement and qualification through to maintenance, change control, and retirement.
• Managing and executing validation activities (IQ/OQ/PQ) and overseeing site calibration programmes, including coordination of external service providers.
• Acting as system owner for key QC platforms (e.g., Empower, LabX), ensuring robust CSV, data integrity, and regulatory compliance.
• Maintaining equipment and validation status within electronic systems such as LIMS, ensuring audit-ready documentation at all times.
• Authoring and approving validation documentation, leading deviation investigations, impact assessments, and CAPAs.
• Providing day-to-day leadership, coaching, and development to a small QC equipment/systems team, and representing QC during internal and external audits.