**Position Overview**

The Lead Microbiologist acts as the Site Microbiology Expert for the Deeside and Rhymney sites, providing technical leadership for microbiology and sterilisation activities. The role is responsible for leading a small laboratory team, ensuring compliance with regulatory, quality, and procedural requirements, and overseeing sterilisation validation test methods for terminally sterilised products manufactured at the Deeside site. The position supports continuous improvement, maintains compliance within controlled environments, and champions ConvaTec's mission, values, and quality standards.

**Key Responsibilities:**

+ Ensure facilities, processes, personnel, materials and products are microbiologically tested in line with cGMP and procedural requirements
+ Provide microbiological support to Operations
+ Manage out-of-specification (OOS), facilitate laboratory investigation reports and involve the laboratory manager where applicable.<...