Microbiology & Contamination Control Manager

Northern England | Pharmaceutical Manufacturing | Microbiology & Sterility Assurance

Allerton Bishop is partnering with an established pharmaceutical manufacturing company in Northern England to appoint an experienced Microbiology & Contamination Control Manager.

This is a key Quality leadership appointment with responsibility for microbiology, contamination control and sterility assurance across a regulated pharmaceutical manufacturing environment.

The successful candidate will provide technical and people leadership, ensuring robust microbiological controls are embedded across manufacturing operations while driving continuous improvement in GMP compliance, environmental monitoring and contamination control strategy.

Key Responsibilities

As Microbiology & Contamination Control Manager, you will:

• Lead and develop the site's Microbiology and Contamination Control activities.

• Provide technical leadership across environmental monitoring, microbiological testing, hygiene and contamination control.

• Develop, maintain and continuously improve the site's Contamination Control Strategy (CCS).

• Ensure microbiology activities are performed in accordance with GMP requirements and regulatory expectations.

• Lead microbiological investigations, deviations, OOS/OOT events, CAPAs and root cause analysis.

• Analyse environmental and microbiological trends, identifying risks and opportunities for improvement.

• Provide microbiological expertise to Manufacturing, Quality, Engineering, Validation and Technical teams.

• Support qualification and validation activities associated with facilities, equipment, utilities and manufacturing processes.

Candidate Profile

We are interested in speaking with experienced Microbiology Managers, Contamination Control Managers, Sterility Assurance Managers and senior pharmaceutical microbiologists who can demonstrate:

• Significant microbiology experience within pharmaceutical or biotech manufacturing

• Strong technical knowledge of pharmaceutical microbiology and contamination control.

• Experience with environmental monitoring and microbiological testing programmes.

• Knowledge of Contamination Control Strategy, risk assessment and regulatory expectations.

• People leadership and cross-functional influencing skills.

• A degree in Microbiology, Biological Sciences or a related scientific discipline.

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