Nexus Life Sciences
Validation Officer
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Validation Officer 📍 Preston | 💷 £33,000– £42,000K | 🧪 GMP Manufacturing | 📍100% site based
Are you an experienced Validation professional looking to take the next step in your career within a fast-paced, highly regulated manufacturing environment? We’re supporting a growing life sciences manufacturer in Preston who are looking for an experienced Validation Officer to join its growing Quality team.
Role Overview
Reporting to the Validation Manager, you’ll play a key role in delivering the site’s Validation Master Plan, ensuring robust validation standards are upheld across processes, equipment, cleaning, analytical methods, and new product introduction activities.
Key Responsibilities
- Generating, reviewing, and executing validation protocols and reports to support successful validation activities.
- Managing process and engineering change controls to ensure validated systems remain compliant post-change.
- Reviewing analytical/method validation data (including chromatography outputs) to support validation decisions.
- Conducting risk impact assessments aligned with ICH Q10 principles (including ICH Q3D).
- Assessing process deviations, root causes, and CAPAs from a validation perspective.
- Supporting cleaning validation activities including swab recoveries, clean/dirty hold times.
- Delivering process validation for mixing, filling, and re-validation of existing products.
- Supporting equipment validation and lifecycle management in line with Annex 15.
- Providing validation input for regulatory submissions and NPD/NPI projects.
- Assisting with GMP inspection readiness and cross-functional validation support.
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- Minimum 3 years’ experience in a pharmaceutical manufacturing validation role.
- Strong understanding of Quality and Validation principles within GMP environments.
- Degree in Science or Engineering (Analytical Chemistry background advantageous).
- Ability to interpret technical data, manage multiple priorities, and work to tight timelines.
- Confident communicator with the ability to influence and collaborate across departments.
- A proactive, continuous-improvement mindset suited to a dynamic manufacturing setting.
Note
This is a permanent position. Only apply if you already have permanent, unrestricted right to work in the UK, as sponsorship is not available for this role.
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