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.

We’re proud to be an armed forces-friendly place to work and welcome applications from reservists, armed forces veterans (including the wounded, injured and sick), as well as cadet instructors, and military spouses and partners.

If you want to continue to help make our world a safer and healthier place, then apply for the role below and become a part of the extraordinary Eurofins network.

Job Description

Working hours are Monday - Friday, 12pm - 8pm.

As a Shift Leader you will support the management team in the day-to-day operations and organisation of the laboratory ensuring samples are processed accurately, promptly and efficiently for required testing while maintaining high standards of compliance with Health and Safety, Quality System and Customer requirements.

Main Duties

Ensure Health and Safety is at the forefront of every laboratory activity.
Drive continuous improvement of laboratory operations while maintaining the requirements of quality management system.
Assist with daily planning of Department’s workload to ensure customer deadlines are met and continually improve TATs against all internal and sub-contracted tests.
Co-ordinating participation in External Proficiency schemes, to ensure that the scope of accreditation is effectively covered across all testing disciplines.
Ensure the timely investigation of customer complaints, queries and other sources of non- conforming work.
Perform testing as required to ensure customer and operational needs are met.
Manage the operations of the late shift ensuring customer requirements are met while managing Health and Safety of the staff.
Complete departmental validations, release timely analytical reports.
Be the lead to manage the full cycle of sub-contracted samples from delivery to reporting and any queries coming out from the customer.
Manage customer queries and be the bridge between the customer and the laboratory management.
To uphold and maintain company and customer confidentiality at all times.
Maintain accurate and systematic records in accordance with documented procedures.
Proactively support maintenance of QMS to meet INAB/ISO17025 and customer requirements.
Proactively investigate any faults or problems and, if not resolved, report findings to Management without delay.
Proactively assist with and propose new technologies and innovate solutions to support the ongoing technical and operational development of the department.
Ensuring that excellent standards of housekeeping and hygiene are maintained at all times according to stipulated procedures.

Qualifications

Proven experience of working in a laboratory.
Ability to work well under pressure.
Excellent attention to detail.
Ability to multi-task, prioritize, organise and co-ordinate the workload effectively with the team.
Ability to think critically and solve problems quickly and efficiently.
Good written and verbal communication skills.
Able to work as a team and lead by example.

Additional Information

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 in the form of an assessment centre or a staged interview process dependent on the role and it's requirements, this will 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.

Your data
As part of any recruitment process, the company collects and processes personal data relating to job applicants. The company is committed to being transparent about how it collects and uses that data and to meeting its data protection obligations.

Closing Date
We reserve the right to close or extend this position depending on application numbers. Therefore we would urge candidates to submit an application as early as possible.

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 support your development! Do you feel you don’t match 100% of the requirements? Don’t hesitate to apply anyway! Eurofins companies are committed to supporting your career development.

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!

Find out more in our career page: https://careers.eurofins.com/