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Stephen Clarke

My CV

  • Education:

    St. Margarets High Airdrie
    Glasgow Caledonian University

  • Qualifications:

    5 Highers and 8 O’ levels
    BSc Chemistry with Information Technology and Instrumentation

  • Work History:

    Food Technologist
    Manufacturing Laboratory Technician
    QC technician
    Quality Auditor
    Quality Team Leader
    Quality Manager
    Qualified Person
    Site Quality Director
    Qualified Person, Responsible Person and Quality Manager

  • Current Job:

    Qualified Person, Responsible Person and Quality Manager

  • About Me:

    A married father of two who has been working in pharmaceuticals for over 20 years. My role involves deciding which batches can be sold and which batches need to be rejected.

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    I live in a small village in South Lanarkshire with my wife and 2 children. I’m a bit of a geek for pharmaceuticals and really enjoy working in that industry. I coach a 2004’s football team which takes up a lot of my free time, but at home I like to watch box sets or documentaries. My favourite food is mostly Mexican, but I also love a good curry.

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    My job title is “Qualified Person” which means that I am personally responsible for deciding if a batch of medicines has been made, labelled, tested and stored correctly or not. If everything is good I release the batch for human consumption, if it is not good enough I need to reject it. The biggest rejection cost the company £900,000!!!

  • My Typical Day:

    I start work around 8:00 and spend most of my time reviewing paperwork or in discussions about what is acceptable and what isn’t. I finish up around 5:30 and on good days get to drive home knowing that I have improved some peoples lives.

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    Have meetings to understand the priorities for the day

    Communicate the priorities out to my team

    Start planning my day around the priorities that have been agreed

    Deal with the unexpected issues that inevitably occur

    Learn that the priorities have all changed

    Communicate out the changes

    Reschedule the rest of my day

    Start to do some of the actual work

    Write some reports about all of the above

     

  • What I'd do with the prize money:

    Offer it to some local schools for the best essay involving medicines

  • My Interview

    • How would you describe yourself in 3 words?

      Enthusiastic, Geeky, Helpful

      What did you want to be after you left school?

      Initially a Civil Engineer, but changed to Chemistry after 1 year of Engineering at Glasgow Uni

      Were you ever in trouble at school?

      Only minor stuff, nothing too worrying, honest ;-)

      Who is your favourite singer or band?

      Paulo Nutini

      What's your favourite food?

      Chicken Fajitas

      If you had 3 wishes for yourself what would they be? - be honest!

      Stay happy, Stay healthy, Stay helpful

      Tell us a joke.

      I would tell you a Chemistry joke, but I am scared of the reaction ;-)

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