Laboratory Student Placement - Device and Product Performance

at  Viatris

McDermott Laboratories Limited
At VIATRIS, we see healthcare not as it is but as it should be. We act courageously and are uniquely positioned to be a source of stability in a world of evolving healthcare needs.
Viatris empowers people worldwide to live healthier at every stage of life.
We do so via:
Access – Providing high quality trusted medicines regardless of geography or circumstance;
Leadership – Advancing sustainable operations and innovative solutions to improve patient health; and
Partnership – Leveraging our collective expertise to connect people to products and services.
Our global portfolio includes best-in-class, iconic brand-name products as well as global key brands; generics, including branded and complex generics; and other offerings across a wide range of therapeutic areas. We are committed to helping create healthier communities worldwide through education, outreach and better access to treatment.
For those driven to live their lives with purpose, Viatris helps employees realise their full potential by creating a collaborative culture that fosters courage and resilience. Viatris is more than just a place to work. This is a place to make a difference in the world.
Our Global Device Development is an innovative, technically-excellent and fully integrated organization, delivering access to high quality, safe, robust and effective device and combination products to meet the worlds’ evolving patient healthcare needs. We develop device technologies to enable drug-delivery for respiratory, biosimilar and injectable products, and work across Viatris to support innovative technology solutions to provide healthcare solutions for our patients. We operate from 4 sites: Dublin, Ireland, Cambridge & Sandwich, UK and Southpointe, Pittsburgh, USA. Every member of our team is dedicated to creating better health for a better world, one person at a time.
The Role & What You Will Be Doing
Support all R&D Laboratory requirements to ensure lab compliance and also support for all Device Programs as required.

Every day, we rise to the challenge to make a difference and here’s how the Laboratory Student Placement - Device and Product Performance role will make an impact:

• Adhere to ISO 13485 in line with the GDD QMS always ensuring audit readiness.
• Assist with the team to support equipment qualifications, vendor calibrations and preventative maintenance in line with the laboratory qualification and preventative maintenance schedule.
• Data review/ verification, instrument daily calibrations.
• Assist in Coordination of laboratory instrument calibrations and service contracts.
• Support laboratory equipment validation and CSV in conjunction with relevant SMEs.
• Proactively contribute through ownership of the deliverables of the quality objectives defined within the GDD QMS.
• Attending EHS training and maintaining responsibility for adhering to appropriate EHS procedures. Ensure the appropriate risk assessments are in place to perform required tasks.
• Generate SOP’s and Work instructions.
• Organize on site calibration of laboratory equipment.
• Assisting equipment set-up and qualification in the on-site laboratory.
• Assist in the generation SOP’s and Work instructions.
• Assist in sample management activities including shipping of samples.

About Your Skills & Experience

For this role, we’re looking for a candidate who has an effective combination of the following qualifications, skills and experiences:

• Degree /Diploma in Engineering/Science with previous experience in a GMP lab environment would be desirable but not essential.
• Previous experience using in a regulated GMP environment would be an advantage
• The ideal candidate will be enthusiastic, proactive with a proven track record of success, a positive attitude and who wants to progress in a fast-paced environment.
• Well-developed communication skills to lead or facilitate effective discussions. Able to communicate technical and/or project information to key stakeholders.
• Will need to be adaptable to ever changing priorities in a fast paced environment to support the Laboratory team to deliver Device program support.

At Viatris, we are dedicated to building a truly diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t fully align with every requirement, we still encourage you to apply. You may just be the right candidate for this or other roles.
Diversity & Inclusion at Viatris
At Viatris, diversity and inclusion are essential to our mission. The diversity we foster in all aspects of our business can be one of our greatest strengths in redefining healthcare not as it is, but as it should be. If you would like to know more about what diversity, equity and inclusion means to us, please visit
https://www.viatris.com/en/Careers/Diversity-and-Inclusion
Sustainability at Viatris
Corporate social responsibility is fundamental to the Viatris mission. We work to advance responsible and sustainable operations and leverage our collective expertise to empower people to live healthier at every stage of life, recognizing that our actions affect the stakeholders and communities we serve. To learn more about our efforts, please visit
https://www.viatris.com/en/about-us/corporate-responsibility
At Viatris, we offer competitive salaries, benefits and an inclusive environment where you can use your experiences, perspectives and skills to help make an impact on the lives of others.
Viatris is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Every day, we rise to the challenge to make a difference and here’s how the Laboratory Student Placement - Device and Product Performance role will make an impact:

• Adhere to ISO 13485 in line with the GDD QMS always ensuring audit readiness.
• Assist with the team to support equipment qualifications, vendor calibrations and preventative maintenance in line with the laboratory qualification and preventative maintenance schedule.
• Data review/ verification, instrument daily calibrations.
• Assist in Coordination of laboratory instrument calibrations and service contracts.
• Support laboratory equipment validation and CSV in conjunction with relevant SMEs.
• Proactively contribute through ownership of the deliverables of the quality objectives defined within the GDD QMS.
• Attending EHS training and maintaining responsibility for adhering to appropriate EHS procedures. Ensure the appropriate risk assessments are in place to perform required tasks.
• Generate SOP’s and Work instructions.
• Organize on site calibration of laboratory equipment.
• Assisting equipment set-up and qualification in the on-site laboratory.
• Assist in the generation SOP’s and Work instructions.
• Assist in sample management activities including shipping of samples

For this role, we’re looking for a candidate who has an effective combination of the following qualifications, skills and experiences:

• Degree /Diploma in Engineering/Science with previous experience in a GMP lab environment would be desirable but not essential.
• Previous experience using in a regulated GMP environment would be an advantage
• The ideal candidate will be enthusiastic, proactive with a proven track record of success, a positive attitude and who wants to progress in a fast-paced environment.
• Well-developed communication skills to lead or facilitate effective discussions. Able to communicate technical and/or project information to key stakeholders.
• Will need to be adaptable to ever changing priorities in a fast paced environment to support the Laboratory team to deliver Device program support