Senior Analyst

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.

Chemtest is part of Eurofins; we are an award winning company providing routine analytical services and bespoke specialist testing throughout the UK, Ireland and Europe. Our staff are employed across a number of strategically placed locations, all utilising the latest technologies. Our laboratories are UKAS accredited to ISO/IEC 17025:2005 and, where applicable, the Environment Agency MCERTS Performance Standard for soils.

Job Description

Working hours – 37.5 hours per week, Monday to Friday

Eurofins Chemtest is looking for a Senior Analyst who has HPLC experience to join our high throughput Environmental Laboratory. Duties will include, but are not limited to:

1. Ensuring workloads on allocated stations are processed to meet timescales determined by customers and the business.
2. Assisting the Team Leader with people management responsibility for the team on a day-to-day basis, including sickness, back to work interviews, annual leave, productivity, and task allocation/prioritization.
3. Sample preparation, as required.
4. Maintain divisions internal TAT target(s) and KPI target(s).
5. Principal responsibility for resolutions and decisions within the team to resolve day-to-day issues.
6. Monitoring and ensuring quality control in compliance with laboratory quality systems.
7. Highlighting key problems or successes for the team to the Divisional manager and/or Laboratory Director.
8. Maintaining the laboratory equipment in line with safety certification and operating manuals.
9. Managing the performance and development of staff and assisting the laboratory manager with their appraisals in line with Company policies and procedures.
10. Responsible for collecting/reporting data of the team’s performances/KPI’s and highlighting any trends for the laboratory manager.
11. Interact with other departments/stakeholders in a professional manner to help answer queries or questions.
12. Work closely with other departments Section Heads to ensure labour is divided in the most impactful manner to maintain overall target(s).
13. Actively implement and help design improvements through LEAN or other means with a view to reduce TAT between Preparation and Laboratory and reduce costing for the department whenever possible.

Qualifications

Qualifications:

• 2-5 years relevant work experience.

Skills/Experience:

• HPLC experience.
• People Management skills.
• Organisational skills.
• Communication skills.
• Problem solving.
• Relevant and previous laboratory experience.
• Numerical & verbal reasoning.
• Technical knowledge of/training in several of the department’s methods.

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 its requirements. This will give you the opportunity to see what working for Eurofins is really like and enable us to get to 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 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 applicants 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!

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