Laboratory Technician

Eurofins; Milton Keynes; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company as a Laboratory Technician, where your analytical skills will contribute to vital testing services that ensure the safety of food, water, and medicines. This full-time role offers a dynamic environment, working alongside dedicated professionals in a laboratory setting. You'll be responsible for handling samples, maintaining quality standards, and ensuring compliance with protocols. With a commitment to sustainability and diversity, this organization fosters a culture of innovation and growth, providing you with opportunities to advance your career while making a positive impact on society and the environment.

Benefits

Company Pension Plan

Life Assurance Scheme

Healthcare Cash Plan

Enhanced Maternity, Adoption and Paternity Schemes

Employee Assistance Programme

Health and Wellbeing Programmes

Free parking

Worldwide career opportunities

Qualifications

• Prior laboratory experience is essential for this role.
• BSc degree in related scientific field desirable.
• Good command of written and spoken English is essential.

Responsibilities

• Perform analytical laboratory work and maintain accurate data.
• Prepare SOPs and ensure compliance with safety procedures.
• Conduct quality control and sample analysis.

Skills

Laboratory experience

Analytical skills

Attention to detail

Teamwork

Flexibility

IT knowledge

Education

BSc in a related scientific field

Tools

LIMS

QMS

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

As a Laboratory Technician at Eurofins Genomics Europe, DTC & Population Genetics, Products & Services Limited, the purpose of this role will be to performs analytical laboratory work.

Please note this is a full time permanent role, working 37.5 hours per week - Monday to Friday, between 07:00 and 23:00.

• Handling and recording of accurate analytical source data, including insertion of these in Eurofins systems (Worksheets, LIMS and QMS).
• Preparation of SOPs for analytical work regarding the laboratory technician’s protocol and instrument responsibility.
• Ensure personal User Training Log is up to date and properly documented.
• Contribute to the preparation of safety procedures.
• Perform sample reception, quality control, normalization of samples, PCR preparations, procedures for analysis on the instrument and Micro Array procedures.
• Sample shipment.
• Controlling pipettes once a year and maintain pipettes in the laboratory areas which the Laboratory Technician is a part of.
• Maintain the laboratory which the Laboratory Technician is a part of.
• Reporting any problems in the laboratory to the Team Leader.
• Perform monthly stock inventory,
• Ensure that the laboratory performs analysis at a prominent level of quality and deliver reliable results within deadlines.
• Ensure analysis is performed according to the company policies and standards

Qualifications

• Prior laboratory experience is essential for this role.
• BSc degree in related scientific field desirable.
• Good command of written and spoken English is essential.
• High sense of quality, flexibility, team spirit as well as being able to work independently and very reliable way of working.
• Flexibility and willingness for shift work.
• Excellent IT knowledge and experience.
  
  

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:

• 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 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

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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.

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/