Microbiology Lab Team Lead: Operations & Quality

Eurofins; Linlithgow; Vor Ort; GBP 28.000 - 36.000; Vollzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

Company Pension Plan

Life Assurance Scheme (4x annual)</n>

Healthcare Cash Plan

Enhanced Maternity, Adoption and Pater

Zusammenfassung

Eurofins is seeking a Laboratory Supervisory professional to support the Microbiology Laboratory operations, ensuring safe, efficient testing aligned with quality and customer requirements.

The role involves leading a team of 5–15, coordinating staffing and workloads, investigating non-conformances, and maintaining training and competency across the lab. It also includes audits, CAPA, and daily liaison with Customer Services and Quality teams.

Qualifikationen

• Science qualification or equivalent with laboratory experience.
• Understanding of laboratory operations, quality systems, investigation techniques, root cause analysis and Health & Safety requirements.
• Laboratory experience with workload coordination, training and/or coaching colleagues.
• MS Office and laboratory system.
• Excellent communication skills both written and spoken.
• Organisation and problem solving skills.
• Commitment to continuous improvement.
• Knowledge of ISO 17025, UKAS requirements and food microbiology testing.
• Previous Team/Line Leader or Supervisor experience; investigations into non-conforming work.

Aufgaben

• Provide day-to-day leadership and supervision to defined area(s) of the laboratory and lead a team of approximately 5-15 laboratory personnel.
• Support Laboratory Managers with operational planning, resource allocation and workload management.
• Investigate non-conformances and quality issues, identifying root causes and implementing corrective actions.
• Coordinate staffing, work rota, holidays and workload allocation.
• Conduct probation reviews and performance reviews.
• Support recruitment, onboarding and induction activities.
• Ensure staff training and competency assessments are maintained.
• Work with other teams to ensure productivity and quality targets are met.
• Ensure compliance with quality, customer, UKAS and regulatory requirements.
• Participate in audits and support corrective and preventative actions.
• Lead investigations into laboratory errors and deviations.
• Monitor trends to identify improvement opportunities.
• Ensure investigation records and actions are completed on time.
• Liaise with customers regarding quality incidents and service issues.
• Produce KPI and operational reporting.
• Promote and maintain Health & Safety standards.
• Deputise for Laboratory Managers as needed.

Kenntnisse

Communication

Organisation

Problem solving

Team leadership

Ausbildung

Science qualification

Laboratory experience

Tools

MS Office

Laboratory systems

Jobbeschreibung

Eurofins is seeking a Laboratory Supervisory professional to support the Microbiology Laboratory operations, ensuring safe, efficient testing aligned with quality and customer requirements.

The role involves leading a team of 5–15, coordinating staffing and workloads, investigating non-conformances, and maintaining training and competency across the lab. It also includes audits, CAPA, and daily liaison with Customer Services and Quality teams.