Laboratory Processing Manager

37.5 Hours per week.  One year fixed term contract. Monday to Friday.  08:00-16:00. 

Purpose of the post: 

Managing all operations of the water laboratory ensuring that the laboratory remains accredited to ISO 17025 extend the scope of accreditation and grow & develop the laboratory business.

• Lead and manage the day-to-day operations of the laboratory.
• Ensure the laboratory maintains and develops its ISO 17025 accreditation standards.
• Manage laboratory Staff including recruitment training performance management and development. 
• Plan coordinate and oversee laboratory projects projects to ensure they are delivered on time and to a high standard.
• Monitor laboratory workload resources and staffing levels to meet customer deadlines.
• Manage budgets costs and profitability of laboratory activities.
• Ensure all quality health and safety and compliance requirements are met. 
• Oversee equipment maintenance calibration programmes and laboratory audits. 
• Investigate non-conformances complaints and quality issues implementing corrective actions where required.
• Analyse operational data and identify opportunities to improve efficiency and performance.  
• Build and maintain positive relationships with customers suppliers accreditation bodies and other stakeholders.
• Represent the laboratory at meetings audits training events and industry functions. 
• Support business growth through continuous improvement and development of laboratory services. 

Qualifications :

• Qualification in relevant discipline of science
• Previous experience working within a laboratory and understands the importance of good laboratory practices
• Problem solving and troubleshooting skills
• Confident working with a variety IT Systems for example LIMS and Microsoft Office
• Strong leadership and people management skills.

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:

• Enhanced Annual Leave Entitlement
• Day off for your birthday
• 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 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. 
 
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 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 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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Employment Type :

Full-time