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.

Job Description

Eurofins is currently recruiting for full time Environmental Monitoring Scientists based at our client site in Macclesfield, UK.

The successful candidates will provide expertise within the QC Microbiology testing section.

The candidate will have great organizational skills and proven ability to rapidly respond to technical challenges, great troubleshooting skills and operate in a flexible manner, exhibiting high energy, self-motivation and collaborative communication skills.

This role operates on a continuous 2 week rotating pattern of 11hour day shifts: -

Week One: Monday, Tuesday, Saturday and Sunday.

Week Two: Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.

Options for shifts 06:00 to 17:00 or 07:00 to 18:00 with breaks therein.

Job Description

The primary purpose of this role is to support Environmental monitoring testing to assure suitability of client’s manufacturing facilities.

Job Responsibilities:

• Aseptically collect Environmental Monitoring (EM) and cleaning validation samples at client’s facility using sampling protocols and associated documents.
• Ensure compliance with GMP policies and SOPs in a production environment
• Aseptically gown and work in sterile manufacturing areas
• Perform routine and non-routine QC testing such as Bioburden, Endotoxin, Concentration, and Conductivity
• Maintain and Ensure sample chain of custody using a LIMS system and perform all aspects of Sample management including aliquotting, storage, receipt, and testing.
• Review manufacturing schedule for dynamic environmental monitoring to ensure all samples are collected appropriately, and address problems where necessary
• Review and reconcile all environmental monitoring samples at the end of the production run to ensure all samples were appropriately taken, processed, and were within required limits
• Perform Laboratory and Equipment maintenance
• Participate in lean lab operation and continuous improvement programs to reduce operating costs
• Calculate, evaluate, review, and properly communicate data verbally and in written format
• 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 be constantly aware of the client’s requirements and strive to meet or exceed those requirements keeping in mind the client process end points.
• To keep up to date with any technological or method revisions in their area, ensuring their training is complete and adjusting their work as required.
• To have a clear understanding of the client relationship and service goals.
• To ensure that all decisions are handled with client service in mind.
• To ensure uniformity, reproducibility and reliability in all work practices.

Qualifications

• Degree or above in a relevant scientific discipline (Biology, Chemistry or Microbiology)
• At least 2 years’ relevant experience in a pharmaceutical industry GMP laboratory.
• Good team player, organised, accurate, have strong documentation skills
• 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
• Health Cash Plan
• Life Assurance (4 times annual salary).
• 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 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/