BIOPHARMA SERVICES in Portsmouth

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.

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.

Job Description

Purpose of the post:

As quality manager within a small microbiology laboratory, this is a hands-on role supporting the operations of the laboratory. Responsible for the quality management system in compliance with GMPs and company policy. This role will also be required to manage the maintenance of UKAS accreditation.

• Manage the vendor approval scheme, including sending and collating supplier quality questionnaires and conducting external supplier audits.
• Manage company validation activities and ensure that all facilities, processes, equipment and methods are fully validated to GMP standards.
• Maintain the company training matrix and records to ensure compliance.
• Write, review and amend work instructions, protocols or procedures as appropriate in a timely manner.
• Ensure compliance with all relevant cGMP, Quality standards and company procedures at all times – this includes reporting any deviations from these standards/procedures.
• Administer the quality documentation e.g. processing CCRFs in conjunction with the quality systems administrator.
• Generate a monthly quality report for review at management meetings.
• Perform self-inspection audits in line with the internal auditing program.
• Track both internal and external audit corrective actions and assist in preparing audit responses.
• Coordinate and track all calibration activities for equipment to ensure compliance to schedules.
• Generate quality plans where necessary.
• Ensure the retention and security of all quality records in conjunction with the quality systems administrator.
• Check laboratory data, records and log books to ensure they are completed correctly.
• Investigate unexpected results, errors or problems in methods and offer suitable solutions.
• Perform data trending and use technical expertise to make suggestions for continuous improvement.
• Responsible for addressing supplier non-conformance issues.
• Generate, review and approve validation protocols as required.
• Maintain the training matrix for the company, ensuring training records are compliant, in conjunction with the quality systems administrator.
• Communicate with customers, including handling customer enquiries; preparing quotations and contract review where necessary.

Qualifications

• Quality Management Systems experience.
• Planning and organisation.
• Written and verbal communication.

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:

• Enhanced Annual Leave Entitlement.
• Annual Leave Sellback Scheme.
• Additional Annual Leave at Employees set service dates.
• Company Pension Plan.
• Life Assurance Scheme (4 times annual salary).
• Healthcare Cash Plan (6+ months service).
• Enhanced Maternity, Adoption and Paternity Schemes.
• Employee Assistance Programme – 24/7 confidential.
• Health and Wellbeing Programmes.
• Worldwide career opportunities.

We also have in place rewards recognising the great work our employees deliver, their dedicated service and celebrating special life events.

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 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 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!