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

The purpose of this role is to provide expertise within Drug Product Formulation, Engineering and manufacture for drug projects spanning all phases of development for Oral Solid Dosage products

• Support the development of delivery of Drug Product projects spanning all phases of development for Oral Solid Dosage products, working collaboratively with project strategies.
• Generate experimental data to support development decisions and regulatory documentation.
• Foundational skills in practically supporting small scale manufacturing of development drug product batches, including planning, execution (including set up and clean down) and writing up of lab work. Examples may include but not limited to blending, tablet compression, coating, and encapsulation.
• To collaborate with peers within the oral product development area to execute drug product plans, which may relate to formulation/process development, and/or studies to better understand product risks; ultimately to provide data which will inform the process.
• To Support development of oral formulations for clinical studies and commercialisation
• To Execute experiments (batch manufacture, mini-piloting or physical testing) based on protocols, to support various teams and programs.
• Work cross functionally with relevant individuals and project teams.
• Make accurate and contemporaneous records; analyse and interpret experimental data.
• Support department operational needs, which may include ordering and managing supply of raw materials, preparation for material shipping, coordinating with equipment service engineers.
• Maintain safety, regulatory and compliance standards as they relate to the development of drug product, for example COSHH, risk assessments and contractor control.
• Support internal and external audits as required.
• Foundational interpretation of data and contributing to writing internal development protocols and reports.
• Support design, prototype and scale up of drug product formulations and manufacturing processes.
• SHE responsibilities (such as risk assessments) and lab ownership.
• Assist in wider scientific capability development, via relevant internal technical networks, and ongoing Science & Technology initiatives.
• Collect and interpret data, making accurate and detailed records of practical activities in accordance with Client Departmental SOPs.
• Facilitate investigations and support associated investigation.
• Support equipment inspection and audits.
• Troubleshoot methods and instrument problems.
• To participate in the preparation of reports and other documentation as required by Lead Scientist or Client.
• Attend regular client/Eurofins team meetings. Engage in these meetings, gaining learning and understanding of the wider Material Science, Formulation and Manufacturing communities.

Qualifications

• A degree in Chemistry, Chemical engineering, Pharmaceutical Sciences or other relevant field.
• Foundational experience in Pharmaceutical Sciences in Product Development.
• Up to 2 years’ relevant industrial experience.
• A fundamental understanding of how to develop and manufacture a range of standard oral solid dosage formulations.
• Foundational practical and relevant analytical skills are required.
• Building ability to problem solve and troubleshoot.
• Collaborative, networking and interpersonal skills.
• Good oral and written communication skills.
• Ability to document work clearly and concisely, as well as build understanding and describe data / findings importance to others.
• Ability to work safely and comply with key quality systems to ensure data integrity.
• Good organisational and planning skills, and an ability to deliver to agreed time and quality.
• Ability to quickly learn new processes and establishing skills in providing suggestions proactively for new ways to improve existing processes with a view to reduce the cost of goods, minimise waste and improve process and product quality.
• Once competent ability to work on own initiative and be capable of developing solutions to problems as part of a team.
• Willing to operate in a flexible manner and be able to switch priorities at short notice. Seeks new ideas to make improvements within own area of control.
• Developing skills in being able to communicate documents or concepts to co-workers, clients or external manufacturing organisations.

Additional Information

Site Specific Benefits

• Working a 35 hour week, flexibly between 07:00 - 19:00, Monday - Friday.
• On site parking with access to EV charging points.
• Easy access to the transport network, (Bus and train stops within 2 minutes of site, with access to Liverpool city centre within 20 minutes)
• Free Gym facilities

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/