Laboratory Analyst

Eurofins; Belfast; On-site; GBP 28,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

Eurofins is seeking a skilled laboratory professional to provide technical support and expertise while ensuring compliance with international quality standards. The candidate will contribute significantly to laboratory operations, manage resources, and improve methodologies to enhance service quality. This full-time role offers the opportunity to work in a collaborative environment, committed to health and safety.

Benefits

Enhanced Annual Leave Entitlement

Company Pension Plan

Life Assurance Scheme

Healthcare Cash Plan

Employee Assistance Programme

Qualifications

• Experience working in a UKAS accredited laboratory, ICP-MS experience essential.
• Competence in IT, including LIMS, spreadsheets, and databases.
• Understanding of ISO 17025 and relevant accreditation requirements.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical chemical expertise to the laboratory.
• Ensure compliance with ISO 17025 and maintain quality management.
• Monitor and manage laboratory resource needs.

Skills

Attention to detail

Analytical skills

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in Chemistry or related field

Tools

LIMS

Job 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.

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.

Job Description

Unfortunately, we are unable to offer visa sponsorship for this role

This is a full time, permanent position, working 09:00 – 17:00, Monday – Friday.

Provide support by providing technical chemical expertise to the laboratory in all areas. To ensure ownership of and improvements in existing methodologies. To research and implement new technologies to improve the service to our customers. To work within the laboratory accreditation standard of ISO 17025

Job Responsibilities:

Laboratory Operations:

• ICP Analysis: Fully trained on ICP-MS, analysis of samples and troubleshooting.
• Housekeeping: Ensure effective housekeeping of work areas and analytical equipment.
• Stock Management: Monitor and maintain stocks of chemicals and consumables, ensuring continuous availability in line with laboratory procedures.
• Resource Management: Identify and specify laboratory resource needs to ensure the uninterrupted operation of the laboratory.
• Troubleshooting: Provide analytical troubleshooting support for specialized instrumentation as required.
• Workload Management: Volunteer to cover analytical workloads during high-demand periods and staffing shortfalls.
• Analysis: Perform analysis under pressure while adhering to agreed turnaround times.

Quality Management:

• ISO 17025 Compliance: Familiarize with ISO 17025 and relevant accreditation requirements, ensuring all activities meet these standards.
• Quality Control: Oversee the preparation and accurate recording of all standards and chemicals for analysis. Maintain records for internal and external audits.
• Proficiency Testing: Participate in external proficiency testing to maintain method competency and support the laboratory’s quality management system.
• Documentation: Maintain laboratory quality management system documentation and ensure effective communication at all levels within the laboratory.
• Uncertainty of Measurement: To maintain uncertainty of measurement for current methods
• Continuous Improvement: Promote Lean Management, suggest improvements to analytical processes, and participate in continuous improvement initiatives.
• 5S and Lean Management: Actively promote and implement 5S and Lean Management principles within the department to enhance efficiency and organization.
• Audits: Assist in the preparation for and conduct of external audits.
  
  

Qualifications

• Understanding of ISO 17025, UKAS, DWTS, key customer requirements, audit procedures, laboratory methods.
• Proven experience in working to and exceeding targets within the quality system
• Competence in IT, including LIMS, spreadsheets and databases
• Experience working in a UKAS accredited laboratory, ICP-MS experience essential
• Maintaining a competent person pathway (CPD)
• Great laboratory skills and practices as well as relevant methods/ techniques
• Able to present complex information face to face, over TEAMs and on email
• Excellent attention to detail
• Excellent written and communication skills
• Full commitment to meeting customers expectation
• Full commitment to lean management
• Proven ability to develop team members
  
  

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
• Annual Leave Sellback Scheme
• Additional Annual Leave at Employees set service dates
• Company Pension Plan
• Free Parking
• 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 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.



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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 don’t match 100% of the requirements? Don’t 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.

Find out more in our career page: https://careers.eurofins.com/