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 works with the biggest companies in the world to ensure the products they supply are safe, their ingredients are authentic, and labelling is accurate. Eurofins believes it is a global leader in food, environmental, pharmaceutical and cosmetics products testing and in AgroSciences CRO services. It is also one of the global independent market leaders in certain testing and laboratory services for genomics, discovery pharmacology, forensics, CDMO, advanced material sciences and in the support of clinical studies.

In over just 30 years, Eurofins has grown from one laboratory in Nantes, France to over 61,000 employees across a network of more than 1000 independent companies in 59 countries and operating 940 laboratories.

The Eurofins Group is committed to provide the highest quality services, accurate results in time and expert advice by its highly qualified staff. The reliability and accuracy of its data help customers make adequate decisions and meet their increasingly stringent quality and safety standards and the expanding demands of regulatory authorities around the world. 

Job Description

Salary:                Competitive                         

Location:            Tamworth, UK            

Contract:            Permanent

Hours:                37.5 per week                       

Closing date:     15th April 2024

The Role

We are looking to recruit an enthusiastic scientist with experience of working in a laboratory environment. The role will be within biology casework, requiring examination of exhibits for blood/BPA, Semen, Saliva, Cellular material and recovering of contingency evidence. The candidate will be expected to follow Standard Operating Procedures (SOP’s) as well as defined strategies from the Reporting Officer’s. Shift work, On-call working and Bank Holiday cover will be a requirement of the Examiner role upon completing the required training.

Key Responsibilities and Accountabilities

• Examinations of variety of exhibits to standard operating procedure requirements and required turnaround times
• Laboratory and exhibit management
• Complete training, self-study and maintain set KPIs and competences
• Reporting in accordance with set turnaround times

Qualifications

Essential

• At least one year work experience ideally in a laboratory setting
• Demonstrate good organisational skills
• Have high levels of resilience and flexibility and the ability to work to deadlines
• Demonstrate ownership of issues and their resolution
• Communicate and work proactively with others (both colleagues and customers), focussing on a collective goal
• Embrace continuous improvement projects with active involvement
• Ability to work in a highly stressful situations and dealing with details of distressing cases.

Preferred

• Degree level education
• Driving licence
• Previous work experience in a commercial forensic setting 

Additional Information

Company Benefits 

In return for your hard work and loyal service, we will offer you a genuine career and salary progression through our Career Pathways Programme, a competitive salary, a selection of employee benefits via our flexible benefits menu which includes cycle to work, give as you earn, purchase & sell holiday. In addition, we also offer the following:

• Life Assurance (3 times annual salary) 
• Company Pension Plan 
• 25 days Annual Leave plus Bank Holidays 
• Employee Service Recognition Rewards 
• Everyone who joins our team also gets access to Perk box, 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
• Employee Assistance Programme
• HealthCare Cash Plan membership
• Enhanced company sick, maternity and paternity pay scheme
• Refer a friend scheme
• Subscription to wellbeing support 24/7 

Due to the highly sensitive nature of the work, applicants should note that security clearance will be required for this role. To gain security clearance you must have five years continuous residency in the UK. Criminal convictions may prevent you from gaining security clearance.  This role will in addition require alcohol/drug screening. The organisation treats personal data collected during the recruitment process in accordance with its data protection policy.  Information about how your data is used and the basis for processing your data is provided in the organisations applicant privacy notice. 

Find out more in our Eurofins career page: https://careers.eurofins.com/