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

This is a full time, fixed term 12 month contract. Working Monday - Friday 09:00 - 17:00.

We are looking for a experienced, motivated Laboratory Manager to join our Milton Keynes Genomics site, the main duties will include:

• Create a workspace that supports good collaboration and work ethics in a designated workforce of trained and efficient employees. Therefore enabling Eurofins to develop and maintain a laboratory operation that provides quality data for our clients in a timely and cost-efficient way
• To fully support and sustain the Quality Management System in alignment to relevant ISO standards
• Daily management of laboratory to ensure targeted operational KPIs.
• Ensure appropriate resource available in relation to equipment and personnel to support operational needs.
• Responsible for working within the budget.
• Allocate employees as needed to secure agreed level of productivity.
• Ensure skills and competences in team are in place to handle production requirements.
• Oversees the orientation of new laboratory staff to their responsibilities and the function of the laboratory.
• Define an agree goals for relevant personnel and conduct annual PDR.
• Ensure, build and maintain a safe work environment.
• Create, maintain, and follow SOPs and other guidelines at all times.
• Identifies process improvements to better meet client expectations and company objectives, adopting LEAN approaches
• Oversees the monitoring of inventory/ordering by establishing and maintaining par levels and re-stocking points for general laboratory supplies and reagents, also negotiates with suppliers

Qualifications

• Experience Managing a team of 5+ people
• BSC or equivalent
• Experience working with both Array genotyping and NGS sequencing
• The ability to adapt to changing conditions and processes within the workplace
• Pro-active, friendly and professional with the ability to manage a varied workload
• Previous experience working in a leadership Quality role

Additional Information

Benefits

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:

• Life Assurance (4 times annual salary)
• Company Pension Plan
• Employee Assistance Programme – 24/7 confidential support
• Free car parking
• Worldwide career opportunities
• Everyone who joins our team also gets access to Perkbox, 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

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 
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 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/