Facilities and Study Assistant

Eurofins; City of Edinburgh; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a dynamic and innovative company dedicated to making the world safer and healthier. As a Facilities and Study Assistant, you will play a crucial role in maintaining the operational efficiency of our Edinburgh facility. This position offers a unique opportunity to contribute to essential testing services while ensuring compliance with health and safety standards. With a focus on teamwork and excellence, you will support various administrative tasks and help create a clean and organized working environment. If you are passionate about contributing to a sustainable future and have strong organizational skills, we encourage you to apply and be part of our extraordinary network.

Benefits

Enhanced Annual Leave Entitlement

Company Pension Plan

Life Assurance Scheme

Healthcare Cash Plan

Employee Assistance Programme

Health and Wellbeing Programmes

Worldwide career opportunities

Qualifications

• Proficient in Microsoft Office, especially Excel and Word.
• Excellent communication and customer care skills are essential.

Responsibilities

• Maintain Purchase Order systems and manage office supplies.
• Ensure compliance with UK health and safety legislation.

Skills

Microsoft Office

Communication Skills

Organizational Skills

Customer Care Skills

Numeracy Skills

Education

GCSE Maths and English C or above

Tools

Purchase Order Systems

Job description

Eurofins Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

Facilities and Study Assistant

Eurofins Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

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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 network.

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 network.

Job Description

35 hours per week, with flexibility for part time hours if required for the right candidate. Monday - Friday.

• Maintain the Purchase Order systems for the Edinburgh Facility.
• Purchasing and creating orders for office supplies, laboratory equipment, consumables, IT equipment and other ad-hoc needs.
• Support on adhoc investigations that facilitate study management, specifically related to equipment and / or facilities.
• Responsible for ensuring that UK health and safety legislation is maintained and helping to ensure that the working environment is kept in a clean and tidy manner with due attention to the careful maintenance of all laboratory fittings and equipment.
• Knowledge of Eurofins Edinburgh QMS in order to ensure compliance at all times with the policies, procedures and associated documents which are referred to in the manual, specifically provide your input on facility related areas.
• To assist through operating best practice in order to meet the requirements of the ISO 9001 accreditation standard.
• Provide a high level of internal and external customer care.
  
  

Qualifications

• Computer literate with great typing skills.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office, Excel, Word, Outlook.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Knowledge of telephone systems with good telephone manner.
• Good organisational skills.
• Good customer care skills.
• Numeracy Skills.
• Enthusiasm, energy and a driven outlook.
• Excellent organisational skills.
• Maths and English at GCSE C or above, or equivalent.
  
  

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
• Additional Annual Leave Purchase scheme
• 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 out 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 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/

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