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Cyclotron Manager

Employer
KINGS COLLEGE LONDON
Location
London (Central), London (Greater)
Salary
£51,974 - £61,021 per annum, including London Weighting Allowance
Closing date
9 Oct 2024
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About us

The King’s College London and Guy’s & St Thomas’ PET Centre is part of both King's College London's (KCL’s) Faculty of Life Sciences and Medicine and Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust (GSTT). It is responsible for providing services to >8,000 patients and research participants per year from across South-East London and the wider UK. The PET Centre’s scanning suites are critically dependent on radionuclides generated by a GE880 GE PETtrace cyclotron to supply the Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) Positron Emitting Radiopharmaceutical Laboratory (PERL) facility to produce a range of radiopharmaceuticals for human use. In parallel, the Research Department of Imaging Chemistry and Biology (ICAB), part of the School of Biomedical Engineering & Imaging Sciences, relies on both the GE PETtrace and a Siemens RDS112 cyclotron to provide radionuclides to its Cyclotron and Radiochemistry Laboratory (CARL) that produces a range of novel radiopharmaceuticals underpinning research programmes.

About the role

This post provides an exciting opportunity for an experienced cyclotron engineer to take on a senior role within our PET Centre and the Research Department of Imaging Chemistry and Biology (ICAB).

The post holder will be responsible for managing both the GE880 GE PETtrace and RDS112 cyclotrons and associated equipment to ensure that they are able to meet the needs of the PERL and CARL radiochemistry laboratories and the wider PET and ICAB user groups. They will work closely with the Chemistry Operations Manager and will be a key point of contact and expertise for industry partners involved in radionuclide production. They will provide highly specialist mechanical and electrical engineering support for the cyclotrons and associated equipment in PERL and CARL. They will oversee the maintenance and development of all cyclotron-related activities and performance (e.g. radionuclide yields, targetry, ancillary equipment and infrastructure) to support routine radionuclide production in parallel with a range of research activities. They will also oversee maintenance and support of other specialist equipment within the facility (e.g. hot cells, automated platforms, dispensers, other equipment associated with the production of radiopharmaceuticals), including supporting validation of equipment according to GMP guidelines.

They will be responsible for planning preventative and corrective maintenance programmes, as well as ordering spare parts and dealing with faults and breakdowns. They will lead staff training in cyclotron operation and the reliable delivery of radionuclide production. They will also play a lead role in the investigation and communication of operational updates and issues to appropriate staff members including King’s College London Engineers, and Estates and Facilities staff.  The post holder will work closely with the operations, technical, research and administrative PET laboratory managers to optimise the day-to-day activities of the role and will have a key role in ensuring safety of all staff within the facilities.

This is a full time post (35 Hours per week), and you will be offered an indefinite contract.

About You

To be successful in this role, we are looking for candidates to have the following skills and experience:

Essential criteria 

  1. Degree in engineering, physics or another allied subject; Or broad vocational experience, acquired through a combination of job-related vocational training and considerable on the job experience, demonstrating development through involvement in a series of progressively more demanding relevant work/roles 
  2. Knowledge and experience of PET radionuclide production 
  3. Knowledge and experience of maintenance and operation of cyclotrons  
  4. Knowledge and experience of targetry 
  5. Knowledge and experience of working with automated systems such as synthesis platforms and dispensers 
  6. Excellent communication skills (written and spoken -  including report writing, research presentation, team interaction etc.) 
  7. Knowledge and Experience of working in an EU GMP environment 
  8. Knowledge of up-to-date Ionising Radiation Regulations and Radiation Protection 

Desirable criteria

  1. Ability to organise own time and in a multi-disciplinary team 
  2. Flexible approach to hours and duties including early morning start when required 
  3. Experience with radiopharmaceutical production to EU GMP standards 
  4. Experience with a range of radionuclides and delivery systems 

Downloading a copy of our Job Description

Full details of the role and the skills, knowledge and experience required can be found in the Job Description document, provided at the bottom of the next page after you click “Apply Now”. This document will provide information of what criteria will be assessed at each stage of the recruitment process.

Further information

This post is subject to Disclosure and Barring Service and/or Occupational Health clearances.

We pride ourselves on being inclusive and welcoming. We embrace diversity and want everyone to feel that they belong and are connected to others in our community.

We are committed to working with our staff and unions on these and other issues, to continue to support our people and to develop a diverse and inclusive culture at King's. We ask all candidates to submit a copy of their CV, and a supporting statement, detailing how they meet the essential criteria listed in the advert. If we receive a strong field of candidates, we may use the desirable criteria to choose our final shortlist, so please include your evidence against these where possible.

To find out how our managers review your application, please take a look at our ‘ How we Recruit’ pages.

Interviews are due to be held week commencing 28 October 2024 (likely Wednesday 30 October).

This role does meet the requirements of the Home Office and therefore we are able to offer sponsorship for candidates who require the right to work in the UK.

Company

King's College London is one of the top 20 universities in the world and among the oldest in England. King's has more than 27,600 students (of whom nearly 10,500 are graduate students) from some 150 countries worldwide, and some 6,800 staff.

King's has an outstanding reputation for world-class teaching and cutting-edge research. In the 2014 Research Excellence Framework (REF) King’s was ranked 6th nationally in the ‘power’ ranking, which takes into account both the quality and quantity of research activity, and 7th for quality according to Times Higher Education rankings. Eighty-four per cent of research at King’s was deemed ‘world-leading’ or ‘internationally excellent’ (3* and 4*). The university is in the top seven UK universities for research earnings and has an overall annual income of more than £684 million.

King's has a particularly distinguished reputation in the humanities, law, the sciences (including a wide range of health areas such as psychiatry, medicine, nursing and dentistry) and social sciences including international affairs. It has played a major role in many of the advances that have shaped modern life, such as the discovery of the structure of DNA and research that led to the development of radio, television, mobile phones and radar.

King's College London and Guy's and St Thomas', King's College Hospital and South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trusts are part of King's Health Partners. King's Health Partners Academic Health Sciences Centre (AHSC) is a pioneering global collaboration between one of the world's leading research-led universities and three of London's most successful NHS Foundation Trusts, including leading teaching hospitals and comprehensive mental health services. For more information, visit: www.kingshealthpartners.org.

King’s £600 million campaign, World questions|KING’s answers, has delivered huge global impact in areas where King’s has particular expertise. Philanthropic support has funded new research to save young lives at Evelina London Children’s Hospital; established the King’s Dickson Poon School of Law as a worldwide leader in transnational law; built a new Cancer Centre at Guy’s Hospital; allowed unique collaboration between leading neuroscientists to fast-track new treatments for Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, motor neurone disease, depression and schizophrenia at the new Maurice Wohl Clinical Neuroscience Institute; created the Cicely Saunders Institute: the first academic institution in the world dedicated to palliative care, and supported the King’s Sierra Leone Partnership in the Ebola crisis. Donations provide over 300 of the most promising students with scholarships and bursaries each year. More information about the campaign is available at www.kcl.ac.uk/kingsanswers.

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