Job Description
Please note this is a fixed term contract ending 3rd January 2025. Working 37.5 hours per week Monday to Friday 08:30-16:30.
The purpose of this role is to complete, to the required quality standards, the analysis of samples for a given method using laboratory techniques. Further, assist in the efficient day-to-day operation of the laboratory, main duties to involve:
1. Registration, preparation, and analysis of samples as required.
2. Adhering to documented procedures for all aspects of laboratory work, ensuring that all relevant information concerning samples is recorded, that samples are handled correctly, and that all necessary records are maintained.
3. Ensure all relevant paperwork is completed throughout the day.
4. Maintain turnaround time at > 95%, ensuring that daily targets are achieved.
5. Provide a high level of internal and external customer care.
6. Responsible for ensuring that UK health and safety legislation is maintained and helping to ensure that the working environment is kept in a clean and tidy manner.
7. Ensure personal protective clothing equipment is worn in accordance with the Health & Safety policy.
8. Work with the team to drive the laboratory forward through continuous improvement.
9. Undertaking all tasks within the main laboratory appropriate to the level of training given to you by senior analysts and management.
10. To assist through operating best practice in order to meet the requirements of the UKAS accreditation standard.
11. A flexible approach to work will be required to assist other departments as and when required.
12. Assist with continuous improvement within the chemistry department.
Qualifications
13. 5 or more GCSE’s
14. Experience in working in part of a team
15. Good organisation and time management
16. Good verbal and written communication skills
17. Ability to self-motivate
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:
18. Life Assurance (4 times annual salary)
19. Company Pension Plan
20. Holiday Purchase Scheme
21. Employee Assistance Programme – 24/7 confidential support
22. Free car parking
23. Enhanced Maternity, Paternity and Adoption Scheme
24. Worldwide career opportunities
25. 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!