Senior Technical Lead – Tech Transfer

Line Manager: Technical Transfer Manager
Team: Sustainable Processing, Technical Transfer
Location: Wilton
Date: June 2014

Purpose: 
  • To be responsible for the efficient and effective transfer of technical projects from laboratory to plant.
  • To be responsible for the development of and compliance with Safety Risk Assessments and Batch Management Records.
  • To be responsible for the development of capability and capacity of technical support available to clients and the Business Development team.
  • To be responsible for rigorously researching, investigating and applying effective technical process solutions and procedures.

Key Responsibilities:
  • To ensure that the Business Development Team is provided with relevant, high quality advice and that effective support is available to clients
  • To create strong interdisciplinary links across engineering, technical development and operational biotechnology plant teams to ensure seamless development transfer.
  • To work closely with business development and project delivery teams in order to understand, interpret and communicate customer needs to plant teams.
  • To work with internal and external customers to identify and understand their needs and contribute to the design and delivery of agreed outcomes within agreed timescales.
  • To maintain current up to date knowledge of developments within the area of expertise and make recommendations to expand and improve CPI internal technical capability.
  • To be responsible for providing clearly documented records of technical decisions, methodologies, calculations and software use in an agreed format.
  • To ensure that scale-up and scale-down processes are developed in consultation with technical development and plant teams.
  • To provide professional guidance to colleagues and be responsible for own and team’s continuous professional development.
  • To provide technical expertise to project scoping and feasibility studies in pursuit of business generation.
  • To develop a culture of continuous capability development within teams in alignment with company strategy and project deliverables.
  • To ensure compliance with agreed SHE and quality standards.
  • To identify and implement improvement to SHE and quality standards.
Person specification:

Essential
  • First degree in science, chemical process engineering or related discipline with subsequent relevant experience
  • Experience of leading and managing technical aspects of process development projects and processes to tight deadlines
  • Demonstrates evidence based process development and design experience delivering high quality outcomes
  • Experience of pro-active decision making and problem solving within industrial bioprocessing environments
  • Demonstrates examples of collaborative working within and between multi-disciplinary teams.
  • Summarises and communicates technical information and effectively to non-technical people.
  • Develops effective and authentic relationships with stakeholders
  • Demonstrates a dynamic, can-do attitude coupled with an aspiration to work within a fast paced multi-disciplinary environment.
Desirable
 
  • Postgraduate degree in science, chemical engineering or related discipline
  • Direct experience of chemical process engineering in an applied research environment.
Direct reports: Up to 3
Key relationships: Technical Transfer Manager, Project Managers, Business Development Team, Technical Development Team, Plant Operations Team
Salary: Competitive
Other benefits: Pension, Company Sick Pay, Life Assurance, Accident Insurance and 25 days annual holiday, Private Health Insurance
Target start date: ASAP
Additional information: UK/EU citizenship required