Laboratory Steward

Eurofins; Wolverhampton; On-site; GBP 9,000 - 12,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Company Pension Plan

Life Assurance Scheme

Healthcare Cash Plan

Free parking

Worldwide career opportunities

Job summary

Eurofins Wolverhampton is seeking a part-time Stock Controller to join the Microbiology laboratory team. You will organise and control stock levels, manage the stock distribution to customers, and ensure aseptic handling and PPE where required.

The role is 20 hours per week, Monday to Friday 18:00–20:00. You will update stock records monthly, order and receipt stock, maintain a clean and compliant work environment, and support logistics to optimise costs.

Qualifications

• GCSE level or equivalent.
• Experience in working in a team.
• Desirable experience in fast-paced production work and aseptic techniques.
• High attention to detail.
• Good organisation and time management.
• Good verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to self-motivate.

Responsibilities

• Maintain stock control sheet and monthly submission to finance.
• Order and receipt stock for microbiology lab to ensure testing deadlines.
• Unpack stock and rotate using a stock rotation system.
• Keep stock locations organised, clean and safe.
• Coordinate packing and distribution of consumables with logistics.
• Maintain consumable tracker for customer charges.
• Prepare dry pre-poured media and supplements for lab use.
• Collaborate with waters team to align distribution and costing.
• Work aseptically and wear PPE as required.
• Remove waste and maintain hygiene throughout the day.

Skills

Stock control

Teamwork

Attention to detail

Communication

Education

GCSE level

Tools

Stock control system

PPE compliance

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.

The Eurofins network 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 its companies around the world.

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.

Job Description

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

The purpose of this role is to work with the laboratory and goods in team to organise and control the stock levels for the Microbiology laboratory. Along with controlling the distribution of consumables to our customer.

Please note this is a part time role, working 20 hours a week - Monday to Friday 18:00 till 20:00.

• Take responsibility for the stock control sheet ensuring it is updated throughout the month and complete at the end of each month to be submitted to finance.
• Orderand receiptthe stock for all areas of the Microbiology laboratory ensuring they always have sufficient amounts to complete testing on time.
• Unpackstock on arrival into the required location, ensuring they comply with a stock rotation system so that old stock is used before new stock.
• Ensureall stock locations are maintained in an organised, clean and safe manner and help maintain stock rotation.
• Co-ordinate the packing up and distribution of consumables to be sent out to customers, work with logistics to implement the most efficient and cost effective way to complete this.
• Maintain the consumable tracker to ensure the relevant charges are applied to customers for stock distributed.
• Dry pre-poured media ready for use in the laboratory.
• Supplement broths and medias ready for use within the laboratory.
• Workwith the waters team to implement and maintain a distribution line between the departments ensuring relevant costing is applied.
• Work aseptically and wear appropriate PPE when in the laboratory.
• Removal of waste from the laboratory throughout the day and maintenance of the hygiene of the internal bins and waste system.
• To be familiar with relevant health and safety legislation and to ensure that all relevant, hazard signs are used when appropriate.
• To carry out any other reasonable tasks as designated by your line manager.

Qualifications

• Educated toGCSE level, or equivalent.
• Experience in working in part of a team.
• It will be desirable to have experience in any type of fast pace production work and be experiencedusing aseptic techniques.
• High attention to detail.
• Good organisation and time management.
• Good verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to self motivate.

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:

• 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
• Free parking
• Worldwide career opportunities
• We also have in place rewards recognising the great work ouremployees 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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