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 PSS Insourcing Solutions® is a global, award-winning insourcing solution. We place our skilled team directly at the client site, managing operations seamlessly and eliminating complexities. We ensure a strategic, long-term service commitment that delivers value directly at the client’ site, utilising their facilities, equipment, and methodologies, while maintaining the same service, expertise, and cGMP compliance available at the Eurofins facility. If you're an employee seeking an exceptional career journey, Eurofins PSS Insourcing Solutions® is your gateway to a future where innovation, collaboration, and success converge. Join us in a world where excellence knows no boundaries!

We’re proud to be an armed forces-friendly place to work and welcome applications from reservists, armed forces veterans (including the wounded, injured and sick), as well as cadet instructors, and military spouses and partners.

If you want to continue to help make our world a safer and healthier place, then apply for the role below and become a part of the extraordinary Eurofins network

Job Description

Unfortunately, we are unable to offer visa sponsorship for this role.

This is a full time, permanent position, whichoperates on a continuous 2 week rotating pattern of 11hour day shifts: -

Week One: Monday, Tuesday, Saturday and Sunday.

Week Two: Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.

Options for shifts 06:00 to 17:00 or 07:00 to 18:00 with breaks therein.

The primary purpose of this role is to support Environmental monitoring testing to assure suitability of client’s manufacturing facilities.

Job Responsibilities that you be covering:

You will aseptically collect environmental monitoring and cleaning validation samples at client facilities, working within sterile manufacturing environments and ensuring full compliance with GMP requirements, SOPs, and approved sampling procedures.
You will perform routine and non-routine microbiological and QC testing, including bioburden, endotoxin, concentration and conductivity analysis, while maintaining accuracy, reliability, and reproducibility across all laboratory activities.
You will manage samples throughout their lifecycle using LIMS, ensuring accurate chain of custody, sample receipt, aliquotting, storage, testing, reconciliation, and documentation in line with quality standards.
You will review manufacturing schedules and environmental monitoring plans to ensure all required samples are collected, processed, and assessed appropriately, proactively resolving any issues and investigating OOS results or action limit excursions in accordance with client procedures.
You will calculate, evaluate, review, and GMP assess analytical data, prepare technical reports, communicate results effectively, and support laboratory and equipment maintenance while contributing to continuous improvement and lean laboratory initiatives.
You will build a strong understanding of client requirements, service goals, and manufacturing processes, ensuring all decisions are made with customer focus in mind, while maintaining up-to-date technical knowledge, completing required training, and adapting to new technologies and methods.

Qualifications

What skills, qualifications and experiences you will hold as an Shift Environmental Monitoring Scientist:

You will hold a degree or higher qualification in a relevant scientific discipline such as Microbiology, Biology, Chemistry or a related life science subject.
You will have experience working within a GMP-controlled pharmaceutical laboratory environment, with a strong understanding of quality and regulatory requirements.
You will have excellent organisational skills with the ability to manage priorities effectively while maintaining a high level of accuracy and attention to detail.
You will have strong documentation and record-keeping skills, ensuring all laboratory activities and data are completed in accordance with GMP and company procedures.
You will have excellent communication skills, with the ability to build effective working relationships and communicate confidently with both internal stakeholders and external clients.
You will have a passion for quality, client service and continuous improvement, alongside the ability to work collaboratively as part of a team to deliver high standards of performance and customer satisfaction.

Additional Information

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:

Being part of a Reward and Recognition Scheme, recognising great work across our teams.
Holiday entitlement increases with service.
The option to opt into our Health Cash Plan, designed to help look after your everyday health and wellbeing. This allows you to claim back the cost of routine healthcare expenses such as dental check-ups, eye tests, glasses or contact lenses and other everyday medical treatments.
Life Assurance from day one, providing cover of four times your annual salary.
Automatic enrolment into our Company Pension Plan after three months (with the flexibility to opt out if you choose)
Access to our Employee Assistance Programme, offering 24/7 confidential support for both personal and work-related matters.
Being able to register your interest in volunteering days, which are designed to support employees who wish to do voluntary work during working hours as part of a wider strategy to contribute positively to the local community.
Free on-site car parking.
The opportunity to explore worldwide 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.

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.

For more information about Eurofins PSS® please visit our website and watch a message below from our Global Head, Beth Di Paolo.

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