Organics Laboratory Manager

Job Description

Working hours - 40 hours per week, Monday to Friday

• Line management of staff to ensure the generation of accurate and timely data in line with client expectations and ISO 17025:2017 (UKAS) and MCERTS standards.
• Adherence of the Eurofins Chemtest Quality Management System including root cause analysis and communicating with clients on technical matters.
• Assistance in maintenance programmes for the Departments specific analytical instrumentation and any other analytical equipment used by the Department. Maintenance procedures shall ensure that instruments are kept in a clean and serviceable condition and that routine in house maintenance procedures are kept up to date.
• Organisation and managing preventative maintenance of instruments including unexpected service needs with our suppliers. Consultation with the senior management team when turnaround deadlines cannot be met with reasons and proposals to remedy the problem, including when insufficient resources are available to fulfill the duties of the Department.
• Managing the performance, training and development of staff and conducting their appraisals in line with Company policies and procedure (including holiday and absent management).  Areas of discipline considered to be outside of the responsibility of this role must be reported to the Head of Laboratory Operations.
• Continuously improve and develop effectiveness and efficiencies of the laboratory with the co-operation of Quality Department and other departments.
• Following H&S internal and external regulations with focus on COSHH

Qualifications

Qualifications: -

• Degree/HNC or equivalent experience – Science
• 3-5 years relevant work experience laboratory management experience – organic analytical chemistry (environmental chemistry is desirable)
• Technical understanding of environmental testing with various instrumental techniques including HPLC, GC-FID, GC-MS, GCxGC-FID
• Management experience

Skills/Experience: -

• Understanding of ISO 17025:2017 and MCERTS requirements
• People Management skills
• LIMS knowledge
• Organisational skills
• Stress and fast pace environment resilient
• Communication skills
• Accuracy
• Attention to detail
• Problem solving - Root cause analysis
• PC literate – Intermediate
• Relevant previous analytical experience
• Numerical & verbal reasoning

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. 

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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/