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

• Complete formulation development for oral solid dosage forms, and aspects of physical testing associated with these activities would be desirable.
• Conduct Design of Experiment work in line with formulation optimisation would be preferred.
• Operate small scale equipment, to follow instructions closely and record observations will be expected.
• Support physical characterisation of prepared formulation
• Support scheduling and planning experimental work
• Support data analysis of data generated (e.g. to compare formulations and look for trends in performance).

Qualifications

• Degree or above in a relevant scientific discipline (Chemical engineering, Drug design and development or related field, ideally with aspects of pharmaceutical development).
• 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.
• Structured approach to investigating problems to resolution.
• Ability to organise, Schedule and Plan work with efficiency and compliance.
• Proven ability to comply with  safety and compliance needs and  work flexibly.
• Excellent verbal and written skills, both internally and externally.
• Ability to build strong interpersonal relationships with colleagues driving collaboration.
• Experience of delivering process improvement would be desirable.

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/