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

This is a full-time permanent position, working a 37 hour week flexibly Monday - Friday 07:00 - 19:00

We are currently recruiting for a full time, enthusiastic and innovative Material Scientist. This is a new and exciting opportunity based at our client’s facility, a world class Pharmaceutical company based in Kent.

The successful candidate will provide expertise within the Material Science service area spanning raw materials, APIs and Drug Products, strong planning skills, report writing skills, problem solving skills.  Additionally, will be able to think logically and have the ability to effectively collaborate with and communicate scientific ideas to both internal and external partners is a requirement.  Furthermore, there are opportunities to expand knowledge and expertise and provide mentorship.

Job Description

• Demonstrate an understanding in the analyses required in the formulation of amorphous dispersions and other solid dosage forms.
• Demonstrate an understanding of material characteristics and how they relate to ability to formulate and formulation stability.
• Understand and demonstrate experience in a range of materials characterisation techniques able to bring understanding of finished drug product, and API behaviours.
• Solid understanding of formulation techniques and the required particle properties.
• Demonstrate understanding of root cause analysis methodologies and be able to support investigations as required.
• Support in the design of protocols and experimental work.
• Report and communicate project outcomes in an appropriate manner.
• Familiarisation with electronic lab notebooks and ALCOA principles for the recording of data.
• Identify and resolve promptly any problems occurring at any phase of a study, escalating to the line manager where necessary.
• Maintain all areas of the laboratory in a safe, clean and tidy state.
• Coach, develop and mentor less experienced colleagues as an SME in your field.
• Ensure training record is maintained to current GxP, where required.
• Ensure all applicable quality measures are met and adhered to.
• Assist in the creation and maintenance of relevant current GxP documents.
• The role holder is responsible for maintaining current GxP and Health and Safety Knowledge relevant to the role.
• Write or constructively review SOP’s, Protocols, technical reports, risk assessments as required.

Qualifications

• A Degree in Pharmaceutical Science, Chemical Engineering, Material Science or Chemistry is required.
• Minimum of 3 years’ relevant experience with sound fundamental knowledge of pharmaceutical material science.

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/