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.

Eurofins Professional Scientific Services (PSS) is part of the Global Eurofins Business with over 61,000 employees. Eurofins PSS recruits full time scientists on permanent positions at client sites working collaboratively side by side with clients at their site on their projects and helping to develop and bring new medicines to patients to help improve and save lives.



This is a fulltime, permanent position working a 35 hour week flexibly Monday - Friday between 07:00 - 19:00

• Effectively coordinating and managing the PSS team so that productivity, quality, documentation, work schedules, safety and housekeeping is run at maximum efficiency.
• Ensuring that the client gets the best possible service by continually reviewing best practice in relation to both commercial and quality issues and ensuring 100% ethical work standards and GMP compliance.
• Development, coaching, motivation, and morale of team members through effective teambuilding and use of reward and recognitions systems celebrating team success.
• Communicating regularly with the client and Eurofins to ensure information is shared effectively and actions are taken immediately.
• Reviewing and approving all relevant documentation in a timely manner and ensuring that it communicated, documented, filed accurately, and compliant with the required standards.
• Reviewing and improving commercial work practices. Responsible for identifying areas where efficiencies may be improved and liaising with the client appropriately about any proposed improvements.
• Forward planning of activities in order to maximise the use of client resources during training periods.
• Ensuring that work is scheduled and cross training takes place so that the service levels agreed with the client are achieved. Responsible for amending schedules as required.
• Performing analysis if required by shortage of personnel or other circumstances
• Ensuring that all analysts are trained and have completed training records for all tests and other training completed.
• Performing out performance appraisals with staff as part of the overall performance management programme within the organisation.
• Handling any client related queries where necessary and liaising with their team and with personnel from other teams to problem solve these queries if needed.
• Ensuring equipment is properly maintained and in the event of a breakdown that it is repaired in accordance with client procedures (with reference to timeliness, quality and cost.)
• Ensuring that all laboratory supplies are in place as required by the client.
• To address group local audit findings.
• To participate as required in any investigations associated with the team deliverables.
• To perform routine and non-routine analysis using traditional and modern analytical techniques, as required by the client representative.
• To GMP review analytical data
• To initiate and follow-up OOS results and action limits as per client procedures.
• To participate in the preparation of reports.
• To collect and measure productivity through agreed metrics as defined in the Service Level Agreement.
• To attend meetings with the client as required to assess productivity and ensure the group\xe2\x80\x99s capacity is fully utilised. This will include presenting performance metrics to demonstrate efficiency and quality service levels.
• To prepare and approve results for tests in which the team has received the appropriate training and are deemed competent.

Qualifications

• A degree in Chemistry or a related discipline is required.
• A sound, fundamental knowledge of Chemistry is essential.
• At least 4 years\xe2\x80\x99 relevant experience of pharmaceutical analysis in a development laboratory.
• Experience with traditional analytical techniques as well as modern instrumental equipment (HPLC and UV spectroscopy).
• Thorough understanding of chromatographic techniques.
• Excellent leadership skills and previous supervisory experience.
• Previous responsibility for approving valid analytical measurements.
• Good understanding of requirements for working in a GMP environment.
• Ability to work using fully electronic media, including MS Office.
• Ability to communicate clearly and to form strong working relationships with colleagues.
• Ability to work on own initiative and be capable of developing solutions to problems as part of a team.
• Willing to operate in a flexible manner and be able to switch priorities at short notice.
• Passionate about quality and client service.
• Good communication skills both internally and externally.

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 \xe2\x80\x93 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 \xe2\x80\x93 there\xe2\x80\x99s something to suit everyone\xe2\x80\x99s 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\xe2\x80\x99s 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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