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

Please note this is a full-time, permanent position. Working a 37 hour week, Monday - Friday. 

The purpose of this job within Laboratory Operations is to ensure logistics, systems and consumables are supported in the pharmaceutical development function.  The candidate would also provide a pivotal interface for equipment maintenance and calibration programs.  We are looking for an employee with great organizational skills and proven ability to implement and coordinate 6S activities.

• Working flexibly in a Pharmaceutical Development, laboratory-based environment.
• Prioritize lab support activities across functional area to ensure labs remains fully functional.
• Support the area owners with all aspects of visiting engineer/contractor management.
• Gather and maintain all required data associated with equipment management.
• Participate and contribute to upcoming projects related to equipment management.
• To collaborate, alongside departmental area / equipment owners, leadership team, with Business Partners, such as Finance, Quality, Safety & Engineering for Equipment & Asset management from auditing, decommissioning and disposal.
• To facilitate communications regarding facility management and maintenance to the department. Generate and distribute monthly/weekly pre planned maintenance schedule (PPM) to all lab staff to help maintain communication and smooth operational functions between the engineering department and Pharmaceutical Development.
• To act as liaison & point of contact for all equipment management within the department.
• Ensure chemical excipient and solvent supplies / inventory are in stock as needed.  Ensure all appropriate personal protective equipment supplies are available and all equipment spare parts are organized and an inventory is maintained.
• Liaise effectively with the project team leads to understand current and future stock supply requirements to maintain project work effectiveness.
• Maintain a list of equipment for routine maintenance and PAT testing and liaise with Operations, Engineering / Laboratory Support and Laboratory Coordinators to ensure these are scheduled and maintain metrics accordingly.
• Support laboratory and development suite coordinators with lab inspections and outcomes of audit reports maintained in associated ‘Mirashare’ system.
• Serve as first point of contact for equipment and facility related problems requiring engineer intervention; ensure timely follow up and standards maintained.
• Working with Engineering and Laboratory Support schedule vendor visits for equipment servicing.
• Coordinate activities of routine maintenance and ensure that technicians receive relevant training in key laboratory repair and maintenance activities to maintain operational effectiveness.
• Ensure chemical excipient and solvent supplies / inventory are in stock as needed.  Ensure all appropriate personal protective equipment supplies are available and all equipment spare parts are organized and an inventory is maintained.
• Provide routine experimental support, e.g. preparation of buffers or solvent mixtures for HPLC, dissolution sampling, equipment set up.
• To liaise effectively with the project team leads to understand current and future stock supply requirements to maintain project work effectiveness.
• Provide shipping support for functional area colleagues.
• Maintain a seating plan for functional area office area and support desk moves / new starter requirements.
• To maintain high quality documentation of all activities and adhere to safe working practices in own and others work.  
• To ensure that all documentation is carried out on time, is accurate and legible and conforms to the relevant quality standards.
• To keep their training records up to date and participate in and initiate training as required by the client or directed by the Lead Scientist.
• To update any relevant documentation when requested.
• To adhere to all client standards in the areas of safety, housekeeping and quality, notifying management of any discrepancies.
• To ensure that the client’s requirements are fully met or exceeded, following appropriate training, will be flexible on occasion to work across functional business areas where similar skills, knowledge and experience and applicable.
• 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.
• Once foundational knowledge is in place start to identify any opportunities for improvement of quality and service and work with the team to implement continuous improvement.

Qualifications

• Degree in a scientific discipline like Chemical Engineering, Chemistry, Life Sciences or Biology
•  Minimum of 1 to 3 years relevant industrial experience.
• Previous experience of coordinating and scheduling the maintenance and calibration of a suite of analytical instrumentation is essential.
• Strong customer service skills.
• Ability to liaise cross functionally and with external vendors.
• Ability to take ownership, problem solve, and drive resolution of situations.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Excellent administration, and organizational skills, and be able to manage and prioritize a heavy customer service / administration workload in a fast paced working environment.
• Ability to track instrumentation breakdowns and provide and present metrics of equipment maintenance and calibration.
• Experience of organizational 5S activities or similar Lean improvement tools would prove beneficial.
• Experience of working in a GLP environment is essential.
• Willing to operate in a flexible manner and able to reuse both internal and external experiences and incorporate them into relevant improvements. Ability to switch priorities at short notice is desired.
• Good team player, organised, accurate, have strong documentation skills.
• Passionate about quality and client service.
• Good communication skills both internally and externally and avoids making mistakes that will hinder the understanding of his/her written and verbal exchanges.

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/