Job Description

Company Description

Eurofins Scientific is an international life sciences company, providing a unique range of analytical testing services to clients across multiple industries, to make life and our environment safer, healthier and more sustainable. From the food you eat, to the water you drink, to the medicines you rely on, Eurofins laboratories work with the biggest companies in the world to ensure the products they supply are safe, their ingredients are authentic, and labelling is accurate.

Eurofins is dedicated to delivering testing services that contribute to the health and safety of society and the planet, and to its corporate responsibility to protect the environment and ensure diversity, equity, and inclusion across the entire network of Eurofins companies.

Our innovative Professional Scientific Services (PSS) programme engages full-time scientists, technicians and technical support personnel managed by Eurofins PSS Insourcing directly at the client facility, to provide long term service needs while maintaining the same services, expertise and cGMP compliance. This multi award-winning programme offers excellent career opportunities for people who have a proven track record in combining excellent technical ability, with first class interpersonal and communication skills.



Working hours are Monday - Friday, working flexibly between 07:00 - 19:00

The purpose of the post is to provide expertise within the Chemical Process Development area, working with regulatory starting materials, reagents and intermediates.

The role is predominantly laboratory based, involving analytical method development and validation activities associated with small molecule APIs, using traditional and modern analytical techniques.

Job Role

• Support process chemistry with sample analysis to build reaction understanding
• Support analytical activities to build product fate and purge understanding and impurity control
• Analytical support for onsite organic chemists during synthetic route development
• Evaluate new technologies to support method development, increasing the analytical capability of the Chemical Process Development group
• Participate in the analytical transfer of developed processes to client recipient groups and vendors, providing technical support and troubleshooting advice
• Interface across CPD functional areas to support and execute analytical activities through the \'cloud\' network.
• Identify any opportunities for improvement of quality and service and work with the wider team to implement continuous improvement
• Ability to quickly learn new processes. Take initiative to become local expert in areas where there is a gap in knowledge
• Ability to form strong working relationships with colleagues
• Ability to work on own initiative and capable of developing solutions to problems as part of a team
• Willing to operate in a flexible manner and able to switch priorities at short notice

Qualifications

• A Degree in Chemistry or a related discipline is required
• 3-4 years experience
• Good understanding of organic chemistry
• Method development experience in HPLC and GC. Spectroscopy, Karl Fischer & Titration analysis experience is desirable
• Experience in the use of LC-MS & GC-MS would be of advantage
• Strong practical and analytical skills in a laboratory setting
• Ability to problem-solve and troubleshoot
• Collaborative attitude and strong interpersonal skills
• Good verbal and written communication skills are essential
• Able to document work clearly and concisely, as well as understand and describe data / findings to others using the correct scientific language
• Proficient in using electronic media, including MS Office and experience in use of electronic laboratory notebooks would be of advantage
• Ability to work to high safety standards
• Good organisational and planning skills, and an ability to deliver to agreed time and quality
• Passionate about quality and customer service
• Organised
• Attention to detail

Additional Information

Benefits

At Eurofins we are growing, innovating and always learning. We celebrate the achievements of our employees through annual long service awards, recognise our colleagues special life events, and we are committed to charitable causes through global fundraising activities.

As a Eurofins employee you will benefit from:

• Reward & Recognition
• Company Pension Plan
• Employee Assistance Programme - 24/7 confidential support.
• Free car parking
• Worldwide career opportunities
• Everyone who joins our team also gets access to Perkbox, allowing you to save money all year round. Whether its supermarket savings or days out, the daily coffee or a summer holiday - there\'s something to suit everyone\'s lifestyle.

What Happens Next

Our people are the backbone of what we do, so it\'s incredibly important we find the right individuals to join us. As a potential new recruit you\'ll be invited to meet the team to give you the opportunity to see what working for Eurofins is really like and enable us to get you know your key skills and strengths.

Application Tips

It\'s really helpful for our Recruitment Team if you include a full up to date CV, your current location and a contact number so we can talk to you about our exciting opportunities. Please also detail your current Right to Work status in the UK.

Due to the high volume of applications we receive please be aware that if you do not receive a response within 4 weeks of the vacancy expiry date unfortunately, on this occasion your application has been unsuccessful.

We embrace diversity! Eurofins network of companies believe in strength and innovation through diversity, being an Equal Opportunity Employer. We prohibit discrimination against employees or applications based on gender identity and/or expression, race, nationality, age, religion, sexual orientation, disability, and everything else that makes employees of Eurofins companies unique.

Sustainability matters to us! We are well on our way to achieving our objective of carbon neutrality by 2025, through a combination of emission reduction and compensation initiatives. We encourage our laboratory leaders to make sustainable changes at their local level, and in addition to their initiatives we also count on our dedicated carbon reduction team to help us to achieve this goal!

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