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.

This position is to join our innovative (PSS) programme as an employee of Eurofins. The programme places full-time analysts, technicians, scientists and technical support personnel managed by Eurofins directly at the client facility to provide long term staffing needs while maintaining the same services, expertise and cGMP compliance available at the Eurofins facility. This award-winning programme offers excellent career opportunities for people who have a proven track record in combining excellent technical ability with first class interpersonal and communication skills. 

Job Description

Working hours are flexible between 7am-7pm, totalling 35 hours.

Please note this is a 12 Month Fixed Term Contract.

The purpose of the role is to work within a multi-functional team to ensure successful technology transfer, pilot plant scale-up, and manufacturing of active pharmaceutical ingredients (API).

• Apply subject matter expertise in production plant equipment and operations to proactively identify potential scale-up risks.
• Inform process development activities, mitigate identified concerns, and ensure successful process scale-up. 
• Conducting risk assessments, supplier assessments and fit recommendations, process assessment, recommendation of actions/modifications to address process risks, capture of performance data, and troubleshooting of scale-up issues. 
• Collaborate closely with lab development scientists, internal kilo lab facilities, and external contract manufacturing organizations,
• Ensure our innovative medicines are safely and effectively delivered to fund clinical trials and transform patients’ lives.
• Potential for up to 10-15% percent domestic and/or international travel annually

Qualifications

• BEng and/or MEng degree in Chemical/Process Engineering or B.Sc and/or M.Sc. degree in Chemistry. Significant relevant experience may be considered in lieu of educational qualifications.
• Proven experience of industrial manufacturing experience in petrochemical, specialty chemical, or API process scale-up     
• Manufacturing or pilot plant experience with pharmaceutical small molecules or intermediates is preferred.
• Strong fundamental technical skills (engineering, chemistry, process development, safety) and strong knowledge of plant scale unit operations (equipment capabilities, scale-up, process fit, safe operation)
• Excellent problem-solving skills.
• Prior experience in a GMP environment.
• Ability to work to a high degree of accuracy whilst meeting deadlines
• Excellent communication skills, both written and oral.
• Strong interpersonal skills
• Ability to quickly learn new processes and work on own initiative.
• Good team player, organised, accurate, have strong documentation skills.
• Passionate about quality and customer service.

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
• 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 to 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. 
 
Application Tips

It’s really helpful for our Recruitment Team if you include a full up to date CV, your current location and a contact number so we can talk to you about our exciting opportunities. Please also detail your current Right to Work status in the UK.
 
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!