Job ID R-515824 Date posted April 17, 2025

Be part of something bigger at BD. Here, you’ll help us continually improve how we do things every day; to be more efficient, more effective and better serve our customers. You’ll do this within an exceptional team all striving to make sure that everything we do complies with regulations and standards, not just because it’s the right thing to do, but because our products impact people’s quality of life. Here, you’ll put your compliance experience, high expectations and attention to detail to the very best use: advancing the world of health™. At BD, you can make a true difference of one.

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Job Description Summary

As the Laboratory Technician, you will perform all lab duties required to support production on site in Plymouth.

Job Description

We are the makers of possible

BD is one of the largest global medical technology companies in the world. Advancing the world of health™ is our Purpose, and it’s no small feat. It takes the imagination and passion of all of us—from design and engineering to the manufacturing and marketing of our billions of MedTech products per year—to look at the impossible and find transformative solutions that turn dreams into possibilities.

Why join us?

A career at BD means learning and working alongside inspirational leaders and colleagues who are equally passionate and committed to fostering an inclusive, growth-centered, and rewarding culture. You will have the opportunity to help shape the trajectory of BD while leaving a legacy at the same time.

To find purpose in the possibilities, we need people who can see the bigger picture, who understand the human story that underpins everything we do. We welcome people with the imagination and drive to help us reinvent the future of health. At BD, you’ll discover a culture in which you can learn, grow and thrive. And find satisfaction in doing your part to make the world a better place.

Become a maker of possible with us!

Main responsibilities will include:

  • Safety and Compliance: Adhere to COSHH, PPE requirements, manual handling regulations, and good laboratory practices.

  • Laboratory Maintenance: Prepare and sterilize microbiological growth media, maintain the microbiology lab and sterility suite, wash and prepare glassware, discard waste, and conduct sanitization.

  • Environmental Monitoring and Audits: Conduct routine environmental monitoring, perform GMP checklist audits, H&S and 5S audits, and dose mapping tasks.

  • Testing and Documentation: Carry out pre-sterilization contamination measurements, quality control growth promotion tests, B/F and BET testing, dose establishment testing, and document all test results.

  • Protocol and Procedure Management: Prepare protocols, perform equipment/technique validations, write final reports, amend procedures, and update SAP documents.

  • Support and Communication: Assist Senior Lab Technician with service, calibration, contract maintenance, stock management, product sampling, irradiation, and communicate relevant information for smooth lab operations.

About you:

  • Achieved a BTech or equivalent in relevant science subjects with experience in a laboratory which follows good laboratory practice standards (GLP) and COSHH.

  • Excellent communication skills, working with cross functional teams.

  • Demonstrated analytical and structured approach to problem solving.

  • Experience with GMP practice.

  • Experience working in a scientific laboratory.

  • Experience within a manufacturing site/setting.

  • Strong PC skills, including full Microsoft suite.

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Primary Work Location

GBR Plymouth - Belliver Industrial Estate

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GB-PLY Office Staff 0830-1630 (United Kingdom)
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Advancing the world of health™

BD is one of the largest global medical technology companies in the world and is advancing the world of health™ by improving medical discovery, diagnostics and the delivery of care. BD helps customers enhance outcomes, lower costs, increase efficiencies, improve safety and expand access to health care.

BD is unique in how fully dedicated it is to a specific disease state. It makes it clear how the work we do directly impacts the daily lives of the patients we serve.


Eric Rainis
Senior Director Quality Management

To know that our products touch 30 million people with diabetes around the globe is powerful and fuels our teams to deliver best in class products to them each and every day.


Bridget Bagnato
VPGM Injection

It is inspiring to see BD products to be used globally to advance human healthcare.


Yang Zeng
Manager Medical Laboratory

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