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.

Job Description

Please note this is a full time working 37.5 hours per week, Tuesday to Saturday 05:00 - 13:00. 

The purpose of this role is to register all microbiology samples for analysis in a timely and accurate manner, and transfer to the laboratory as appropriate. Main duties to involve:

• To accept deliveries of samples onto site.
• To accurately and rapidly register samples for analysis and dispatch samples to the relevant business location.
• Understand the importance of sample stability and ensure where possible samples are registered and ready for testing within their required stability times.  
• To liaise with couriers and customers and Eurofins drivers to enable timely collection and dispatch of work to external and internal facilities.
• To follow standard operating procedures and safe working practice to ensure the safety of self and colleagues.
• To ensure that all equipment is kept within recommended limits for calibration and maintenance in order to adhere to quality targets.
• Have a clean as you work mentality.
• Ensuring that any relevant sample logs are kept up to date.
• Responsible for correct temperature storage of samples on receipt and prior to processing. Act accordingly when they are not.
• Responsible for coding and logging of samples onto the in house IT System (FGS).
• A flexible approach to work will be required to help assist other departments as and when required. 
• Responsible for dispatching Adhoc samples and consumables to clients.
• Will be required to answer incoming calls and make out-going calls to follow up on customers and must maintain a high level of customer service at all times.
• High level of communication between sample registration team and other microbiology departments to ensure each sample is tested correctly.
• Keep up to date with sample storage and discards.
• Liaise with directly customers to resolve queries in a timely manner.
• Assist with continuous improvement within the microbiology department and support with the 5s systems implemented in your area of work.

Qualifications

• Maths, English, Chemistry or Biology at GCSE grade C or above or equivalent
• Proficient in Microsoft Office
• Good laboratory skills and practices
• Enthusiasm, energy and a driven outlook

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:

• Life Assurance (4 times annual salary)
• Company Pension Plan
• Health Cash Plan
• Employee Assistance Programme – 24/7 confidential support
• Enhanced Maternity, Paternity and Adoption pay scheme
• Holiday Purchase Scheme
• 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 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 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/