Sample Management Officer – Entry Level (Graduates Welcome To Apply)

Eurofins; Sydney; On-site; AUD 50,000 - 65,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Superannuation top-up

Job summary

Eurofins Environment Testing Australia in Girraween, NSW is seeking a Sample Management Officer — Graduate/Entry Level. You will ensure orderly flow of samples through the lab, manage cool rooms for water and soil, and assist in storage, disposal and procedural tasks.

Reporting to the Team Leader, you’ll support efficient lab operations, leverage MS Office tools, and contribute to a safe, compliant environment with opportunities to grow your skills in environmental analysis.

Qualifications

• Engineering or Science qualifications; master's level advantageous.
• Good knowledge of MS Word, MS PowerPoint and MS Excel; IT systems knowledge a plus.
• Strong numeracy and financial skills.
• Comfort in technical environments.
• Ability to build and structure business plans, submissions and initiatives.
• Desire to continually learn and improve.
• Entrepreneurial spirit with eagerness to take the next step.
• Hands-on, 'doer' with common-sense approach.
• Strategic thinking mindset.
• Naturally strong abstract reasoning and clear written/oral communication.
• Good work practices.

Responsibilities

• Ensure water samples cool room is kept up to date and orderly.
• Ensure soil samples cool room is kept up to date and orderly.
• Ensure hold samples cool room is kept up to date and orderly.
• Ensure soil long term storage is kept up to date and orderly.
• Disposal of Water Samples.
• Disposal of Soil Samples.
• Disposal of Biosecurity Samples, under supervision.

Skills

Numeracy

Financial skills

Written communication

Oral communication

Strategic thinking

Entrepreneurial spirit

Hands-on approach

Plan and submissions

Education

Engineering or Science qualifications

Master’s level qualification advantageous

Tools

MS Word

MS PowerPoint

MS Excel

IT systems knowledge

Job description

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 works with the biggest companies in the world to ensure the products they supply are safe, their ingredients are authentic and labelling is accurate. Eurofins believes it is a global leader in food, environmental, pharmaceutical and cosmetics products testing and in agroscience CRO services. It is also one of the global independent market leaders in certain testing and laboratory services for genomics, discovery pharmacology, forensics, CDMO, advanced material sciences and in the support of clinical studies.

Eurofins Environment Testing Australia is an Environmental testing network of fully accredited laboratories. With a staff of over 300 our laboratories are located in Sydney, Melbourne, Perth, Brisbane and with Client Service Offices located in Adelaide, Darwin, Newcastle and Wollongong. We also operate field sampling services out of Melbourne and Sydney. We specialise in all areas of Environmental analysis, including Contaminated Soil, Sludge, Sediments, Leachate, Soil Vapour, Trade Waste Effluents, Sewage Effluents, Stack Emissions, Work Place Air, Ambient Air, Dust, Drinking Water, Surface Water run off, River & Stream Monitoring, Seawater, and Groundwater.

Job Description

Sample Management Officer - Graduate / Entry Level | Full-Time | Girraween, NSW

Shift times:

• Monday to Friday; 8AM to 4PM

An extra 1.5% superannuation paid on top of National standard rate.

Reporting to the Team Leader, the Sample Management Officer is responsible for ensuring that all samples effectively pass through the laboratory in an orderly fashion, that they are easily accessible by laboratory staff, and that they are removed from refrigeration and put in storage or disposed of, once completed.

Responsibilities include but not limited to:

• Ensure “water samples” cool room is kept up to date and orderly.
• Ensure “soil samples” cool room is kept up to date and orderly.
• Ensure “hold samples” cool room is kept up to date and orderly.
• Ensure soil samples long term storage is kept up to date and orderly.
• Disposal of Water Samples.
• Disposal of Soil Samples.
• Disposal of Biosecurity Samples, under supervision.

Qualifications

• Engineering or Science qualifications and/or university master’s level qualifications, will be an advantage.
• Good knowledge of standard office applications, especially MS Word, MS PowerPoint and MS Excel. General knowledge about systems, IT architecture and production control, will be an advantage.
• Strong numeracy and financial skills.
• General preference and comfort in technical environments.
• Ability to build and structure business plans, submissions and initiatives.
• Desire to continually learn and improve.
• An entrepreneurial spirit, with an eagerness to take the next step.
• Ability to be a hands-on hard worker and a ‘doer’ with a common sense approach.
• Strategic thinking mindset.
• Naturally strong abstract reasoning skills.
• Strong written and oral communication skills and the ability to structure thoughts deliberately, logically and directly.
• Good work practices.

This opportunity is only open to candidates who are eligible to work in Australia/New Zealand, and already have work rights or an appropriate working visa.