Quality Assurance & Compliance Officer - 15 Month FTC

Eurofins USA Clinical Diagnostics; Guildford; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company as a Quality Assurance & Compliance Officer, where you will play a vital role in maintaining the Quality Management System and ensuring compliance with ISO standards. This 15-month fixed-term contract offers a chance to contribute to the health and safety of society through your work in a Clinical Diagnostics laboratory. You will train staff, coordinate audits, and support a culture of quality and safety. With a commitment to diversity and sustainability, this organization values your contributions and offers a supportive environment for your professional growth.

Benefits

Enhanced Annual Leave Entitlement

Company Pension Plan

Life Assurance Scheme

Healthcare Cash Plan

Employee Assistance Programme

Health and Wellbeing Programmes

Free Parking

Worldwide Career Opportunities

Qualifications

• Educated to degree level in Biomedical Science or equivalent.
• Experience in Blood Sciences service specialties and supporting QMS.
• Strong communication skills and proactive approach.

Responsibilities

• Maintain the Quality Management System and compliance to ISO standards.
• Train staff in health and safety requirements and quality processes.
• Coordinate audits and ensure quality documentation is up to date.

Skills

Quality Management System (QMS)

ISO 9001

ISO 15189

Document Control

Change Management

Auditing

Communication Skills

Root Cause Analysis

Education

Degree in Biomedical Science

Active CPD Portfolio

Tools

Q-Pulse

Job description

Company 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

Please note, this is initially a 15 Month Fixed Term Contract.

Working hours are Monday - Friday, 9am - 5pm.

As a Quality Assurance & Compliance Officer, you will provide operational support in maintaining the Quality Management System (QMS) and assisting with compliance to ISO standards and Health & Safety processes within the Clinical Diagnostics laboratory.

• Assist in the day to day maintenance of the QMS (Q-Pulse) with its associated ISO or other regulatory standards as per service requirements i.e. ISO – 9001, 15189, 27001, 7101 but not limited to, including document control, logging non-conformities, trending corrective actions and opportunities for improvement.
• Deputise for the Deputy Quality Manager within scope, act as an UKAS contact when required, ensuring timely management of UKAS assessment findings, with documentation of root causes, impacts, and completion of agreed actions by submission deadlines.
• Train laboratory staff in applicable health and safety requirements, quality inductions, document control, non-conformities change management and auditing techniques when required. Develop training materials and presentations to assist with this, in liaison with other lead scientists.
• Coordinate and organise annual temperature monitoring probes and pipette calibration services between clinical diagnostics and genetics. Review, follow up or escalate on actions raised by supplier.
• Ensure all equipment records, calibration and monitoring is carried out by relevant laboratory staff and that appropriate records are maintained.
• Support the quality team in preparation and coordination of internal and external audits by compiling documentation and maintaining audit schedules.
• Help ensure quality documentation, including procedures IQC/ EQA and the Quality Manual, are kept up to date.
• Monitor and log non conformities, escalating overdue actions to the Deputy Quality Manager.
• Assist in organising monthly and bimonthly meetings.
• Support to maintain records of staff training in quality and health & safety requirements.
• Work together with the training coordinators to ensure the laboratory, management and medical training matrix is up to date.
• Assist in incident reporting processes and help coordinate Health & Safety inspections.

Qualifications

• Educated to degree level or equivalentin Biomedical Science or a related field.
• Active CPD portfolio within the field.
• Experience inBlood Sciences service specialties
• Experience in Change Management
• Experience within supporting a quality management system : ISO 9001, ISO15189
• Experience in performingvarious types of audits.
• Experience with the use of Document control software such as Q pulse, uploading and reviewing documentation.
• Experience in assay validation/verification pre-acceptance testing.
• Experience of writing and reviewing SOPS.
• Experience of handling adverse incidents and performing root cause analysis.
• Strong communication skills - both written and verbal.
• Proactive approach to tasks.

Additional Information

Benefits

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
• Additional Annual Leave Purchase scheme
• Annual Leave Sellback Scheme
• 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 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
As part of any recruitment process, the company collects and processes personal data relating to job applicants. The company is committed to being transparent about how it collects and uses that data and to meeting its data protection obligations.

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.

Weembracediversity!Eurofins network of companies believe in strength and innovation through diversity, being anEqual 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/