Shape the Future of Pharmaceutical Manufacturing with Tata Chemicals Europe
Built on over 100 years of scientific expertise and driven by exceptional people, Tata Chemicals Europe is a business with a proud heritage and an exciting future.
Across our Cheshire sites, our colleagues are helping us deliver premium products, outstanding customer service, and a positive impact on our communities and environment. Now, we're entering an exciting new chapter.
Be Part of Something Ground-Breaking
We've launched Medi-Salt, the UK's first dedicated pharmaceutical-grade salt manufacturing facility. Producing high-purity salt for use as both an Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient (API) and pharmaceutical excipient, Medi-Salt is setting new standards in quality, compliance and innovation.
A key opportunity has arisen in our Quality team, we are looking for a Validation and Qualification Manager
The successful candidate will be responsible for establishing, maintaining and continuously improving the validation lifecycle programme across the Tata Chemicals Europe Sodium Bicarbonate and British Salt Medi-Salt operations.
The role acts as the technical subject matter expert for validation and qualification activities associated with facilities, utilities, manufacturing equipment, processes, cleaning systems and analytical methods.
The Validation Lead ensures that all validation activities are conducted in accordance with GMP, MHRA requirements, EU GMP Annex 15, ICH guidance and internal quality standards, maintaining the validated state throughout the lifecycle of GMP systems and processes. The role also provides technical leadership during regulatory inspections, customer audits and certification assessments.
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Accountable for establishing, maintaining and continuously improving the site Validation Master Plan and associated validation framework across both the Sodium Bicarbonate and British Salt operations.
- Responsible for ensuring validation standards, procedures, templates and governance systems remain inspection-ready and support a compliant, risk-based approach to validation across the business.
- Responsible for ensuring that facilities, utilities and equipment remain in a qualified state throughout their operational lifecycle. This includes oversight and approval of Design Qualification (DQ), Installation Qualification (IQ), Operational Qualification (OQ) and Performance Qualification (PQ) activities, ensuring all qualification work is appropriately documented, scientifically justified and compliant with regulatory requirements.
- Provides technical leadership and coaching across the organisation to promote a strong validation and GMP compliance culture working with internal stakeholders to improve validation practices, implement risk-based approaches and identify opportunities to strengthen compliance and operational effectiveness.
We want someone who can hit the ground running with our Validation programme across TCE. The ideal candidate will be a proven Validation and Qualification professional preferably with a degree in Science, Engineering, Pharmacy or related discipline and will have the following experience:
- GMP experience within pharmaceutical, API, chemical or life sciences manufacturing would be great with a strong understanding of Annex 15, ICH Q7 to Q10
- Experienced in leading DQ, IQ, OQ, PQ, process and cleaning validation.
- Supported regulatory inspections as well as MHRA inspections.
- Audit qualifications would be advantageous
- Proven experience of managing stakeholders thorough a validation programme with strong influencing skills to create a proactive approach
- Worked collaboratively in previous roles with Production, Engineering and Quality functions to support process improvements while maintaining regulatory compliance.
Our people have always been at the centre of the company’s success and in return for their hard work and commitment, we offer a generous benefits package when engaged directly including:
- 37 days holidays per year, inclusive of Bank Holidays
- Roll over of up to 5 days and salary sacrifice holiday purchase scheme
- An additional paid day off each year to volunteer for a good cause in the local community
- 37.5 hours per week, Monday to Friday
- Excellent contributory Pension scheme up to 9% company contribution
- Life insurance
- Private Healthcare
Tata Chemicals Europe (TCE) is one of Europe's leading suppliers of sodium carbonate, salt and sodium bicarbonate and other products, from our plants in Cheshire, UK.
We are the UK's only manufacturer of sodium bicarbonate, the many grades of which have applications ranging from haemodialysis and pharmaceuticals, food and animal feed, flue gas treatments through to detergents and personal care products. Sodium carbonate (also known as soda ash) is primarily sourced from our US sister company, TCNA, and used in the manufacture of glass, detergents, chemicals and in several other industry applications.
Our British Salt Business is the UK's leading salt business, producing pure white salt for a variety of uses from food, water-softening, and industrial uses through to de-icing.
We have a long and proud history. Having been founded in 1874, and being a founder-member of ICI. Now owned by Tata Chemicals, we are proud to be part of the Tata Group of companies.
We work in conjunction with Morson Talent (www.morson.com) providing access to a small number of their recruiters to our Pinpoint recruitment system alongside our own in house team. Therefore, by submitting your application you understand that it may be dealt with by either the Tata Chemicals Europe or Morson dedicated team.
We reserve the right to close an advert early if we receive a high volume of suitable applications.
