Higher Level Apprentice (Analytical Operations)
ALMAC PHARMA SERVICES LIMITED
Loughborough (LE11 5RB)
Closes on Friday 31 October 2025
Posted on 20 August 2025
Contents
Summary
Accelerate your career through our award-winning degree apprenticeship. Earn a degree and get on-the-job training with our exceptional teams. You’ll study towards nationally recognised qualification while applying your learning in a leading biopharma company. Enjoy working with & learning from inspiring industry experts.
- Wage
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£24,804 a year
- Training course
- Scientist (level 6)
- Hours
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30 hours a week + 7.5 hours study per week. TBC.
37 hours 30 minutes a week
- Start date
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Monday 5 January 2026
- Duration
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5 years
- Positions available
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1
Work
Most of your apprenticeship is spent working. You’ll learn on the job by getting hands-on experience.
What you'll do at work
Join our team as an Analytical Laboratory Apprentice, where you will maintain our laboratories, ensuring they meet Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP).
- You will develop essential lab skills, from basic practices to advanced pharmaceutical analysis, as you progress through the apprenticeship.
- Your responsibilities will include:
- Maintaining glassware
- Ordering consumables
- Setting up and calibrating equipment
- Accurately recording test results.
You’ll also handle administrative tasks, attend external academic courses and complete university assignments on time. This role offers hands-on experience in both GMP and non GMP projects, with increasing responsibilities as your knowledge and skills grow.
Enjoy a dynamic work environment with support from industry experts and a clear path for career development.
Where you'll work
Bakewell Road
Charnwood Campus
Loughborough
LE11 5RB
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
THE UNIVERSITY OF KENT
Training course
Scientist (level 6)
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What you'll learn
Course contents
- Identify and apply scientific approaches to solve problems, support investigations and recommend any follow-up experiments.
- Evaluate scientific experiments using an appropriate level of qualitative and quantitative numerical analysis.
- Critically analyse data, relevant literature and input from colleagues to inform investigations.
- Analyse, interpret and evaluate scientific data and present the results in written and oral form.
- Manage record keeping to ensure data integrity, traceability, confidentiality and adherence with appropriate regulatory requirements.
- Promote, enact, document, and monitor the application of quality standards, safe working practices and compliance with risk management systems relevant to the role.
- Identify opportunities to challenge assumptions and apply influencing skills to make improvements, make new proposals and build on existing ideas.
- Manage work plan, prioritise tasks and evaluate progress against objectives.
- Contribute to the development of technical projects across multi-skilled teams and share best practice across the wider business.
- Conduct complex (chemical, or physical, or biological) scientific investigations in accordance with defined company procedures and legislative requirements.
- Identify and implement continuous performance improvement using appropriate techniques.
- Ensure work meets environmental, risk management and sustainability requirements and regulations of the business sector.
- Evaluate own performance and knowledge, and set personal development goals.
- Troubleshoot equipment selection and implement sustainable solutions.
- Identify and collaborate with key stakeholders and provide technical support and advice where required.
- Identify how other roles in the organisation can contribute to achieving sustainability goals.
- Select and apply equipment, techniques, and methods to ensure reliable and accurate results.
- Undertake practical analyses and measurement and communicate the outcomes using appropriate terminology and mathematical and graphical notation.
- Use appropriate digital solutions for the collection and analysis of data, and the retrieval of appropriate information.
- Use communication methods suited to objective and audience.
- Use theoretical models, often involving approximations, to make quantitative predictions.
- Apply chemical concepts and theories to investigations.
- Design, develop and carry out chemical science investigations.
- Recommend synthetic pathways to target-compounds and design experimental activities to test predictions.
- Design and deploy purification, isolation and characterisation strategies, taking account of physicochemical properties of elements and compounds.
- Design, develop and carry out qualitative and quantitative sample preparation, chemical measurement, and analysis.
- Critically compare the results of theoretical or computational modelling with those from experiment and observation.
- Apply physics theories to solve problems that cross scientific discipline boundaries.
- Apply computational techniques to analysis and model physical behaviour.
- Apply physics concepts and theories to investigations.
- Design, develop and carry out physics based investigations.
- Use mathematical techniques and theories to solve physics problems.
- Use computer programming software to solve physics based problems.
- Critically analyse current and emerging developments in the biosciences and the contribution of Biosciences to the wider industry.
- Apply Biological concepts and theories to investigations.
- Design, develop and carry out biological investigations
- Perform tasks related to sample preparation and culturing techniques.
- Use of laboratory automation systems.
- Perform sampling with consideration for sample variation.
- Identify and apply scientific approaches to solve problems, support investigations and recommend any follow-up experiments.
- Evaluate scientific experiments using an appropriate level of qualitative and quantitative numerical analysis.
- Critically analyse data, relevant literature and input from colleagues to inform investigations.
- Analyse, interpret and evaluate scientific data and present the results in written and oral form.
- Manage record keeping to ensure data integrity, traceability, confidentiality and adherence with appropriate regulatory requirements.
- Promote, enact, document, and monitor the application of quality standards, safe working practices and compliance with risk management systems relevant to the role.
- Identify opportunities to challenge assumptions and apply influencing skills to make improvements, make new proposals and build on existing ideas.
- Manage work plan, prioritise tasks and evaluate progress against objectives.
- Contribute to the development of technical projects across multi-skilled teams and share best practice across the wider business.
- Conduct complex (chemical, or physical, or biological) scientific investigations in accordance with defined company procedures and legislative requirements.
- Identify and implement continuous performance improvement using appropriate techniques.
- Ensure work meets environmental, risk management and sustainability requirements and regulations of the business sector.
- Evaluate own performance and knowledge, and set personal development goals.
- Troubleshoot equipment selection and implement sustainable solutions.
- Identify and collaborate with key stakeholders and provide technical support and advice where required.
- Identify how other roles in the organisation can contribute to achieving sustainability goals.
- Select and apply equipment, techniques, and methods to ensure reliable and accurate results.
- Undertake practical analyses and measurement and communicate the outcomes using appropriate terminology and mathematical and graphical notation.
- Use appropriate digital solutions for the collection and analysis of data, and the retrieval of appropriate information.
- Use communication methods suited to objective and audience.
- Use theoretical models, often involving approximations, to make quantitative predictions.
Training schedule
- One day per week remote learning on E-Learning platform Moodle.
- Two in person Summer Schools at the Canterbury Campus
- Tripartite reviews every 8 - 12 weeks online with you Apprenticeship Advisor
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE in:
- English (grade 4)
- Maths (grade 4)
A Level in:
Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.
Skills
- IT skills
- Attention to detail
- Organisation skills
- Problem solving skills
- Team working
- Enthusiastic
- Accuracy
- Eager to learn
About this employer
Almac Group is a global leader in providing a range of expert services and support across the drug development lifecycle. We are trusted experts in R&D, diagnostic services, API manufacture, formulation development, clinical trial supply services and technologies through to commercial-scale manufacture and distribution. We are recognised as an industry leader in client service, providing understanding, experience and knowledge to our clients as we work together to advance human health. A privately owned organisation, Almac has grown organically over the past five decades, employing over 7,500 highly skilled employees across 18 facilities in Europe, North America, and Asia.
After this apprenticeship
Laboratory Analyst: conducting chemical analysis and testing on various substances, analysing chemical composition, identifying contaminants, or evaluating product quality.
Quality Assurance Specialist: responsible for monitoring and ensuring the quality of chemical products and processes.
Laboratory Technician: Maintaining cleanliness and sterility and ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements.
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The contact for this apprenticeship is:
THE UNIVERSITY OF KENT
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000338167.
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Closes on Friday 31 October 2025
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