Shift Coordinator

Please note this is a Fixed Term Contract Until 31st December 2025.

Working hours are Monday - Friday 12pm - 8pm.

This Shift Coordinator role will assist with managing the 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 Systems and Customer requirements.

• Assist the laboratory team and sample registration team on day-to-day operations.
• Ensuring that all samples are registered prepared and subcontracted on time and with accurate information.
• Perform testing as required to ensure customer and operational needs are met.
• Release technical reports and daily results to the customers via LIMS and via emails.
• Manage subcontract workflow contact sub-contract labs for results and ensure results are reported in lab LIMS system on a daily basis.
• Regularly check and assist lab team to deal with customer queries and complaints.
• Provide training and guidance to the junior staff as required.  Participate in training programmes undergo further training as required and participate in schemes to ensure ongoing competence and development of skills. 
• Assist with thorough contract review of all work received and allocation of work on a daily basis to technicians assigned to the Department. 
• Ensuring all documentation is completed on time accurately and legibly including incident reports training sheets.
• Ensuring that Customer instructions are complied with and that correct and appropriate methodology is used at all time. 
• 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 including attention to temperature control storage preservation and prevention of cross-contamination (where relevant). 
• Assist with daily planning of Departments workload to ensure customer deadlines are met and continually improve TATs. 
• Responsible for ensuring equipment and facilities is in good working condition and communicate in a timely manner to the relevant departments when an issue arises.

Qualifications :

• Educated to degree level or equivalent in Environmental Chemistry Analytical Chemistry or other relevant subject 
• Previous experience working within an accredited contract testing laboratory or related industry laboratory environment are preferred but full training will be provided
• Good understanding of relevant quality system and accreditation requirements 
• Good keyboards skills and experience of LIMS Systems MS Office packages in particular Excel.
• Hard working self-motivated disciplined and professional team player
• Ability to work well under pressure.
• Excellent attention to detail
• Ability to multi-task prioritize organise and co-ordinate your own workload.
• Ability to influence individuals where there isnt a direct reporting line.
• Good written and verbal communication skills: including with international partners

Additional Information :

What Happens Next

Our people are the backbone of what we do so its incredibly important we find the right individuals to join us. As a potential new recruit youll 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 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 dont match 100% of the requirements Dont 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!

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