Chemistry Team Leader

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.

Job Description

Working hours are Monday - Friday, 9am - 5pm.

As Team Leader within Chemistry, you will manage day to day operations and organisation of the laboratory ensuring samples are processed accurately, promptly and efficiently for required testing while maintaining high standards of compliance with Health and Safety, Quality System and Customer requirements. 

This is a production focused role intended to maintain turnaround times, coach and mentor junior members of the team while improving performance in both production and the quality management system.

Main Responsibilities Will Include:

• Ensure laboratory is operated in a safe manner in accordance with Eurofins H&S system requirements.
• Implementing the quality system requirements in all areas of work including ensuring amendments to the Quality Manual or other QA documentation are promptly implemented as instructed. 
• Drive performance efficiencies to deliver continuous improvement in various operational and customer KPIs.
• Assist with daily planning of Department’s workload to ensure customer deadlines are met and continually improve TATs against all internal and sub-contracted tests.
• Coordinating the Equipment Calibration schedules liaising with the individual departments and external suppliers.
• Co-ordinating participation in External Proficiency schemes, to ensure that the scope of accreditation is effectively covered across all testing disciplines.
• Ensure the timely investigation of customer complaints, queries and other sources of non- conforming work.
• Perform testing as required to ensure customer and operational needs are met.
• Provide guidance, training and guidance to staff while improving resilience with cross training between departments.
• Ensure that laboratory resources – equipment, materials and staff – are properly used at all times.
• Ensure samples are received into the laboratory in accordance with documented procedures.
• Maintain accurate and systematic records in accordance with documented procedures.
• Possess good working knowledge of relevant documents within the Quality System including Test Methods, Quality Manual, methods and client specific standards or specifications (where relevant).
• Proactively support maintenance of QMS to meet INAB/ISO17025 and customer requirements.
• Proactively investigate any faults or problems and, if not resolved, report findings to Management without delay.
• Proactively assist with and propose new technologies and innovate solutions to support the ongoing technical and operational development of the department.

Qualifications

• Educated to degree level within Chemistry/related field.
• Experience in a ISO 17025 Laboratory working with ICP-MS, GC and LC techniques and/or other automated photometric analyser, Ion Chromatography and other Wet Chemistry techniques preferred.
• Experience in method development, method optimisation and validation.
• Extensive knowledge of QMS under ISO17025, its implementation and maintenance.
• Able to demonstrate technical knowledge to supervise and lead others through training, coaching and mentoring.
• Excellent attention to detail.
• People management skills.
• Ability to think critically and solve problems quickly and efficiently.
• Good written and verbal communication skills.

Additional Information

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 
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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 support your development! Do you feel you don’t match 100% of the requirements? Don’t hesitate to apply anyway! Eurofins companies are committed to supporting your career development.

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/