Aureum Diagnostics is an exciting and innovative medical diagnostics company engaged in the design, development and commercialisation of game changing, low-cost electrochemical diagnostic sensor platforms. Based on the company’s proprietary technology, our platforms employ leading edge high sensitivity detection and assay techniques to enable to enable rapid “sample to result” detection of a wide range of medically important biomarkers.

The role – Research & Development Technical Project Manager

An experienced Technical Project Manager, you will lead one of the company’s core product development projects, support the Director of Product Development in spearheading the next major phase of product development, help drive company growth and be responsible for meeting technical and project goals on time and on budget.

You will have an exciting, challenging and dynamic technical project management role. You will be responsible for undertaking and managing all elements of product development within your project, your duties and responsibilities including;

• Assuming ownership for full life-cycle product and technology development
• Taking responsibility for all project management and project planning activities
• Having line management responsibility for all project team members
• Undertaking, leading and managing product design and development from current status through all stages to manufacturing and scale-up and product launch
• Taking responsibility for Product life cycle management strategy, including identification of areas for incremental improvement
• Key Relationship development with commercial partners and external project sub-contractors
• Ensure project activities remain in line with the organisational strategic plan by maintaining close attention to fine experiment details
• Recruitment, mentoring and development of the project team
• Work cross–departmentally to ensure products come to market in a timely and cost-effective manner

Educated to min Bachelor’s, ideally Master’s, degree level in a life sciences discipline, you will have demonstrated success across the full product lifecycle, creating and implementing product plans and leading product development through design, proto-typing, product launch, scale-up and commercialisation.

As a “hands-on” Technical Project Manager, you will possess an in-depth working knowledge of high performance diagnostic device and assay development, from concept to manufacture. You will have first class team-working and management skills, be an excellent relationship builder and have demonstrable experience in a fast-paced research and development environment.

In conjunction with affording a genuine opportunity to play a key role in the development and commercialisation of Aureum’s transformational product and technology platforms you will be rewarded with a highly competitive salary and package.

As a Development Technician you will possess attention to detail and an interest in high performance diagnostic device development, from concept to manufacture. You will have first class team-working skills, be an excellent relationship builder and have demonstrable experience in a fast-paced research and development environment.

• Execute experiments to develop the electrochemical test platform
• Work consistently to a high GLP standard, following company SOPs and protocols
• Creating and maintaining lab records, CAPA events and quality documents
• Work collaboratively with a multidisciplinary approach across several areas of the business
• Reagent and equipment stock control, ordering and laboratory maintenance
• Effective collaboration and communication with internal and external staff and partners across R&D, operations, manufacturing and QC departments
• Creating and contributing to reports and presentations to update colleagues on progress
• Implementing COSHH and other safety assessments to ensure a safe work environment
• Conducting risk and hazard assessments of experimental activities
• Routine verification, maintenance and calibration checking of equipment
• Prepare formulations and buffer solutions for immunoassays
• Perform testing of reagents using various characterisation techniques.
• Train other personnel on required procedures and ensure personal training is up-to-date.

Educated to ideally Bachelors, degree level in an engineering or life science discipline, you will have demonstrated consistency and rigour in assay or product development at multiple stages of the full product lifecycle, contributing to product development through batch testing, reagent preparation, calibration and lab maintenance.

In conjunction with affording a genuine opportunity to play a key role in the development and commercialisation of Aureum’s transformational product and technology platforms you will be rewarded with a highly competitive salary and package.

Particularly advantageous would be knowledge and experience of:

• Characterisation, validation and verification of product design concepts as part of an iterative design process to deliver a realised product design solution.
• Experience of chemical, reagent and particle characterisation techniques
• Electrochemical techniques and processes