Laboratory Analyst

Eurofins; Wolverhampton; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

Eurofins is seeking a Laboratory Analyst for its Wolverhampton facility, focusing on the extraction and analysis of food samples. This permanent full-time role involves maintaining high quality standards, compliance with ISO17025, and driving continuous improvement in a fast-paced environment. Ideal candidates will possess a science degree or significant lab experience, with strong communication and organizational abilities.

Benefits

Health Cash Plan

Life Assurance (4 times annual salary)

Company Pension Plan

Employee Assistance Programme – 24/7 confidential support

Free car parking

Worldwide career opportunities

Access to Perkbox for lifestyle discounts

Qualifications

• A science degree or equivalent qualification; or significant laboratory experience.
• Knowledge of UKAS standards.
• Production or lab experience through higher education project.

Responsibilities

• Prepare, extract and analyse food samples according to quality standards and ISO17025 requirements.
• Maintain turnaround time at >99%, ensuring daily targets are achieved.
• Responsible for maintaining UK health and safety legislation.

Skills

Good laboratory skills and practices

Enthusiasm

Excellent communication

Organisational skills

Proficient in Microsoft Office

Education

Science degree or equivalent qualification

Maths and English at GCSE C or above

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 network.

Job Description

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

This is a brilliant opportunity to join Eurofins Food Testing, as a Laboratory Analyst in Wolverhampton's fast paced chemistry department. The purpose of this post is to complete to the required quality standards, the extraction and analysis of samples for all food chemistry, contaminants and environmental methods using appropriate techniques.

Please note this is a permanent full time role working Monday to Friday 08:00 till 16:00.

• Prepare, extract and analyse food samples in accordance with standards of quality and the requirements of ISO17025.
• Preparation of calibration and quality standards to check method and instrument performance.
• Reporting and / or calculation of results in accordance with methods of analysis.
• Plotting and acting upon quality control data produced per batch.
• Maintain turnaround time at >99%, ensuring that daily targets are achieved.
• Maintain stock levels of consumable items for methods being undertaken.
• Provide a high level of internal and external customer care.
• 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.
• Work with the team to drive the laboratory forward through continuous improvement.
• Knowledge of Laboratory Quality Manual in order to ensure compliance at all times with the policies, procedures and associated documents which are referred to in the manual.
• To assist through operating best practice in order to meet the requirements of the UKAS 17025 accreditation standard.
  
  

Qualifications

• Science degree; or equivalent qualification; or significant laboratory experience.
• Production experience or Laboratory experience gained through higher education project.
• Knowledge of UKAS.
• Good laboratory skills and practices.
• Enthusiasm, energy and a driven outlook.
• Excellent communication and organisational skills.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office.
• 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:

• Reward and Recognition.
• Health Cash Plan
• Life Assurance (4 times annual salary).
• Company Pension Plan
• Employee Assistance Programme – 24/7 confidential support.
• Free car parking
• Worldwide career opportunities
• Everyone who joins our team also gets access to Perkbox, allowing you to save money all year round. Whether its supermarket savings or days out, the daily coffee or a summer holiday – there’s something to suit everyone’s lifestyle.

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 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/