R&D Laboratory Technician

EUROAPI; Haverhill; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading pharmaceutical company is seeking a Laboratory Technician to join their Research & Development team in Haverhill. This role involves supporting laboratory scientists by ensuring equipment maintenance, managing inventory of consumables, and maintaining high operational standards. The ideal candidate has experience in a lab environment and is detail-oriented, organized, and a strong communicator.

Benefits

Attractive Salary

Competitive benefits

Training & Development

Open and friendly working environment

Qualifications

• Proven experience in a laboratory setting, ideally within a support or technician role.
• Strong knowledge of laboratory equipment, calibration, and maintenance procedures.

Responsibilities

• Completion of routine equipment calibration checks.
• Supervision of 3rd party equipment engineers.
• Maintaining inventory and cleanliness of the laboratory.

Skills

Organizational Skills

Attention to Detail

Communication Skills

Job description

Join our Research & Development team as a Laboratory Technician at our Haverhill manufacturing site to play an integral role. We are a leading Contract Development and Manufacturing Organization (CDMO) specializing in the development and production of high-quality pharmaceutical products.

The Laboratory Technician is an essential role in our growing R&D team, providing support services to laboratory-based scientists. The core activities of which are to ensure equipment and facilities are maintained, calibrated and ready to use, and that consumables are always stocked.

Your Responsibilities

You will:

• Completion of routine equipment calibration checks in accordance with the calibration schedule.
• Arranging for 3^rd party equipment engineers for equipment maintenance and repair
• Supervision of 3^rd party engineers
• Check laboratory consumables stock levels and order replacements as required.
• Ordering consumables, reagents and equipment from internal stores or external vendors as required.
• Processing laboratory deliveries, receipt, storage and notifications
• Assisting with the maintenance of the R&D GMP facility
• Accurate recording keeping in specified forms (electronic and paper) with accuracy and responsibility and keeping accurate records with GMP and Data Integrity principles in mind.
• Cleaning of the GMP Class D R&D Facility
• Assisting scientists with other housekeeping duties

Our Company

EUROAPI is focused on reinventing active ingredient solutions to sustainably meet customers’ and patients’ needs around the world. We are a leading player in active pharmaceutical ingredients with approximately 200 products in our portfolio, offering a large span of technologies, while developing innovative molecules through our Contract Development and Manufacturing Organization (CDMO) activities.

Taking action for health by enabling access to essential therapies inspires our 3,450 people every day. With strong research and development capabilities and six manufacturing sites all located in Europe (Saint-Aubin-lès-Elbeuf and Vertolaye in France, Brindisi in Italy, Frankfurt in Germany, Budapest in Hungary and Haverhill in the UK), EUROAPI ensures API manufacturing of the highest quality to supply customers in more than 80 countries.

EUROAPI is listed on Euronext Paris.

The EUROAPI Haverhill (UK) site has been established for forty years, located fifteen miles east of Cambridge and sixty miles north of London, within the golden triangle. It employs over 250 people and has built a strong reputation in Flow Chemistry, Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient (API) Spray Drying and as a Contract Development and Manufacturing Organisation (CDMO). Haverhill is proud to house the world’s largest, continuous production, pharmaceutical spray dryer and performs secondary packaging and release activities for oncology and rare disease medicines supporting global markets. The site also offers a contract testing and release facility within its laboratories.

Our Requirements

• Proven experience in a laboratory setting, ideally within a support or technician role
• Strong knowledge of laboratory equipment, calibration, and maintenance procedures
• Good organizational skills and the ability to manage inventory effectively
• Familiarity with health, safety, and quality standards in a laboratory environment
• Attention to detail and the ability to maintain high standards of cleanliness and operational efficiency
• Excellent communication skills and ability to work collaboratively as part of a team

Your Benefits

• Attractive Salary

• Competitive benefits

• Training & Development

• Open and friendly working environment

Culture & Values at EUROAPI

We bring our culture to life in the way we work every day. Our culture enables career development and talent management, we recognise that how we do things is as important as what we do, and our values set out how we achieve our goals and help us "do it right".

Diversity & Inclusion

EUROAPI is committed to nurturing a culture of diversity and inclusion that contributes to improving innovation, performance, and engagement. We value transparency, mutual respect, and equal treatment of people. For this reason, we are firm in protecting our employees against any forms of discrimination.

We are Disability Confident - Committed which means we make reasonable adjustments to our process and offer interviews to disabled people who meet the minimum criteria for our vacancies. If you would like any assistance or require the application to be completed in a different format, please call or contact our Haverhill site reception.

Environment, Social and Governance

We strongly believe that the success of our company lies in its capacity to adapt to tomorrow’s challenges. Our responsibility as a company is to provide sustainability and resilience to the pharmaceutical value chain.

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