Principal Technician QC - Leiden (NL)

Pleased to meet you, we are Galapagos, a dynamic growing Biotech company with offices across Europe and in the US, headquartered in Mechelen, Belgium. 

We’re in the business of changing lives. In our quest to discover and develop life-improving medicines we go where no one has ever gone before. In every challenge we face, we see new opportunities. We pioneer for patients. We need thought leaders and rapid thinkers, entrepreneurs in spirit and status quo-fighters. Collaborative innovators and perseverant idealists. We need the best-in-class. In other words, we need you: The ‘make-it-happener’. 
 

Scope of the job  

We are seeking a highly motivated Principal Technician to join our Quality Control team in the Leiden Bio Science Park. You will be responsible for routine testing of our product and incoming goods using techniques for both analytical and microbiological testing such as ELISA, PCR and Flow Cytometry. In this position, you will also support method validation, method transfers, instrument maintenance and troubleshooting as well as taking an active role in implementing and following a GMP way of working. 

Your role  

• Test our products for release, characterization and monitoring purposes.

Test our products for release, characterization and monitoring purposes.

• Test and release of incoming goods.

Test and release of incoming goods.

• Perform method validations and method transfers.

Perform method validations and method transfers.

• Provide support for instrument maintenance and troubleshooting.

Provide support for instrument maintenance and troubleshooting.

• Provide support in maintaining an efficient GMP laboratory.

Provide support in maintaining an efficient GMP laboratory.

• Take part in laboratory investigations.

Take part in laboratory investigations.

• Write procedures and support deviations, change controls and CAPAs.

Write procedures and support deviations, change controls and CAPAs.

• Coordinate the lab activities.

Coordinate the lab activities.

• Mentor the junior technicians.

Mentor the junior technicians.