Unit Lead Microbiological Environmental Monitoring Kaiseraugst

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The Position

A healthier future. It’s what drives us to innovate. To continuously advance science and ensure everyone has access to the healthcare they need today and for generations to come. Creating a world where we all have more time with the people we love. That’s what makes us Roche.

Our Purpose in Quality Control Basel Kaiseraugst (BBK) is to analyze so that patients can trust safe and efficient medication and therapy. As part of the quality organization Kaiseraugst, we live quality. With our business partners, we do the right thing for our patients. Independent, reliable, and efficient.

Management of microbiological monitoring in Kaiseraugst is a key position in the production of sterile medicines of high quality. The main objective is to combine the safety of the medicines with the requirements for effective production. As the Unit Lead of "Microbiological Environmental Monitoring Kaiseraugst" (mEMT KAU) in Quality Control, you will be responsible for the personnel and technical management of 15-20 individuals in QC, and manage QC microbiology laboratories in the environmental monitoring of all facilities in Kaiseraugst (i.a. drug product facilities for parenterals). You will maintain contacts with the local value streams and global functions, ensuring reliable and efficient microbiological analytics for the safety of our products and the well-being of the patients.

Your opportunity:

As the Unit Lead Microbiological Environmental Monitoring Kaiseraugst you empower self-directed teams to make decisions at the lowest possible level. As a visionary leader, you coach, develop, and promote your team members, ensuring that employees are assigned according to their qualifications and that corresponding goals are achieved. As an architect of your team, you create a safe working culture and environment, promoting an agile mindset and collaborative work with local interfaces.

• With a focus on customer- and value-oriented work, you remove barriers and promote collaboration with key stakeholders.
• Responsibilities include conducting microbiological environmental and media monitoring, microbiological in-process controls, particle testing, calibrations, as well as evaluating and reporting them in electronic laboratory information systems.
• You ensure timely, efficient, and GMP-compliant analytics by adhering to all relevant guidelines, SOPs, as well as regulatory and registration requirements. Creation and updating of testing procedures, SOPs, and other GMP-relevant documents are considered.
• For microbiological matters, you provide technical advice and support to internal and external customers (e.g. production, QA, Regulatory).
• You represent your area of expertise during regulatory inspections and audits.
• You sponsor new technology (e.g. rapid microbiology) to optimize business processes.
• You organize your team as a hub for QC, facilities and global Roche teams, and actively implement QC strategies.
• Optimal utilization of personnel resources and cost-effective use of technical equipment is considered with focus on continuous improvement processes.

Additional responsibilities include ensuring the organization's collaboration with the global Roche network, as well as the implementation of global requirements, including the development of site-specific concepts and solutions in line with the requirements of health authorities.

Who you are:

You are open to new ideas and challenge conventional thinking. You appreciate working in a performance-oriented environment that is characterized by mutual respect, discussion, and collaboration. You are a communicative and decisive individual with persuasiveness and assertiveness, who enjoys an independent work approach. You work precisely, structured and value teamwork. Your work ethic benefits from your flexibility, resilience, and conflict management skills.

• Completed studies with a background in natural sciences or technology (such as biotechnology, microbiology, pharmacy, or a similar field).
• Several years of experience in leading microbiological laboratories in the specified areas or in sterile production are required.
• Experience in leading and developing employees, and passion for developing and empowering your team.
• Proven expertise in the field of microbial environmental monitoring/aseptic processing and in the pharmaceutical GMP analytics work environment.
• Experience with inspections and audits.
• Fluency in English and German, both written and spoken, is required.

Who we are

At Roche, more than 100,000 people across 100 countries are pushing back the frontiers of healthcare. Working together, we’ve become one of the world’s leading research-focused healthcare groups. Our success is built on innovation, curiosity and diversity.

Roche Kaiseraugst is a cornerstone of Roche's global production and logistics network. It employs some 1900 people out of the 10,700 employees at our Basel/Kaiseraugst site and is Roche's largest and most innovative packaging facility worldwide. Read more.

Besides extensive development and training opportunities, we offer flexible working options, 18 weeks of maternity leave and 10 weeks of gender independent partnership leave. Our employees also benefit from multiple services on site such as child-care facilities, medical services, restaurants and cafeterias, as well as various employee events.

We believe in the power of diversity and inclusion, and strive to identify and create opportunities that enable all people to bring their unique selves to Roche.