Shift Environmental Monitoring Scientist

Eurofins CRL NC Inc; Macclesfield; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a dedicated Environmental Monitoring Scientist to join their team in Macclesfield. In this full-time role, you will play a crucial part in ensuring the safety and quality of products by conducting essential environmental monitoring and QC testing. Your expertise will help maintain compliance with GMP standards while working collaboratively in a dynamic environment. This position offers a unique opportunity to contribute to the health and safety of society and the planet, all while being part of a company committed to sustainability and diversity. If you're passionate about quality and eager to make a difference, this role is perfect for you.

Qualifications

• Degree in a relevant scientific discipline required.
• Experience in a pharmaceutical industry GMP laboratory is essential.

Responsibilities

• Collect Environmental Monitoring samples aseptically at client’s facility.
• Ensure compliance with GMP policies and perform routine QC testing.
• Maintain sample chain of custody and perform laboratory maintenance.

Skills

Organizational Skills

Troubleshooting Skills

Collaborative Communication

Documentation Skills

Quality Assurance

Education

Degree in Biology

Degree in Chemistry

Degree in Microbiology

Tools

LIMS System

Job description

Shift Environmental Monitoring Scientist

• Full-time

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 labeling 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.

Eurofins is currently recruiting for full-time Environmental Monitoring Scientists based at our client site in Macclesfield, UK. The successful candidates will provide expertise within the QC Microbiology testing section.

The candidates will have great organizational skills and proven ability to rapidly respond to technical challenges, great troubleshooting skills, and operate in a flexible manner, exhibiting high energy, self-motivation, and collaborative communication skills.

This role operates on a continuous 2-week rotating pattern of 11-hour day shifts:

Week One: Monday, Tuesday, Saturday, and Sunday.

Week Two: Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday.

Options for shifts 06:00 to 17:00 or 07:00 to 18:00 with breaks therein.

The primary purpose of this role is to support Environmental monitoring testing to assure suitability of client’s manufacturing facilities.

Job Responsibilities:

• Aseptically collect Environmental Monitoring (EM) and cleaning validation samples at client’s facility using sampling protocols and associated documents.
• Ensure compliance with GMP policies and SOPs in a production environment.
• Aseptically gown and work in sterile manufacturing areas.
• Perform routine and non-routine QC testing such as Bioburden, Endotoxin, Concentration, and Conductivity.
• Maintain and Ensure sample chain of custody using a LIMS system and perform all aspects of Sample management including aliquotting, storage, receipt, and testing.
• Review manufacturing schedule for dynamic environmental monitoring to ensure all samples are collected appropriately, and address problems where necessary.
• Review and reconcile all environmental monitoring samples at the end of the production run to ensure all samples were appropriately taken, processed, and were within required limits.
• Perform Laboratory and Equipment maintenance.
• Participate in lean lab operation and continuous improvement programs to reduce operating costs.
• Calculate, evaluate, review, and properly communicate data verbally and in written format.
• To GMP review analytical data.
• To initiate and follow-up OOS results and action limits as per client procedures.

Minimum Requirements:

• Degree or above in a relevant scientific discipline (Biology, Chemistry, or Microbiology).
• Relevant experience in a pharmaceutical industry GMP laboratory.
• Good team player, organized, accurate, have strong documentation skills.
• Passionate about quality and client service.
• Good communication skills both internally and externally.

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 its requirements. This will give you the opportunity to see what working for Eurofins is really like and enable us to get to know your key skills and strengths.

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 on our career page: https://careers.eurofins.com/