Laboratory Assistant - Molecular Cell Biology

Eurofins; Dungarvan; On-site; EUR 26,000 - 32,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Career progression

Private medical insurance

Income protection

Free parking onsite

Additional annual leave

Life-saving products

Work-life balance

Sports & social events

Job summary

We are recruiting a Laboratory Assistant to join our Molecular Cell Biology team in Dungarvan, Co Waterford. The role supports site operations to ensure efficient processing of customer samples across the laboratory.

The successful candidate will perform general housekeeping, stock management, reagent prep, equipment calibration and waste disposal, while maintaining ALCOA+ documentation and training records. Flexibility for shift changes and on-call duties is required.

Qualifications

• A full drivers license is a requirement for the role.
• GMP experience/knowledge is preferred but not essential
• Knowledge/experience with aseptic techniques
• Good team player
• Good communication skills both internally and externally
• Competent in the use of a PC such as Word, Excel, Outlook.

Responsibilities

• General housekeeping activities in assigned department/ area, including keeping area clean and tidy and cleaning laboratory equipment etc. as required (e.g. refrigerators, incubators, stability chambers).
• Provision of laboratory/ area support to the team, through stock management, reagent preparation, equipment calibration and checks.
• Performing waste disposal duties as necessary.
• Completion of all documentation to required standard (ALCOA+).
• Order and maintain inventory of laboratory supplies, including PPE, consumables, and reagents, to support routine laboratory activities
• Upkeep of training records and completion of all EtQ training on time.
• Adhering to all company standards in the area of safety, housekeeping and quality, notifying management of any discrepancies.
• Flexibility ensuring that customers’ requirements are fully met and in so doing will be flexible to work in any area of the business as is required.
• To participate in the company On-Call / Call out rota as required.Flexibility may be required depending on the needs of the laboratory, this can include a change in working days and/or change in hours.

Skills

Teamwork

Communication

Aseptic techniques

PC literacy

Education

Full driver's license

GMP experience

Aseptic techniques

Good team player

Good communication skills

PC skills (Word, Excel, Outlook)

Job description

Laboratory Assistant - Molecular Cell Biology

• Full-time
• Compensation: up to EUR 28696 - yearly

Consider joining Eurofins where people are the most important element in our business. Eurofins Biopharma Product Testing is a leading contract lab that provides testing and research services in the environmental, pharmaceutical, and biopharmaceutical sciences to clients worldwide.

What can Eurofins offer you?

• At Eurofins we offer careers not just jobs.
• Developmental opportunities and career progression
• Private Medical Insurance when with the company for 2 years for all roles
• Income protection and life assurance
• Free parking onsite
• Additional annual leave days with continued service
• The opportunity to work on life saving products
• Work-life balance
• Sports and Social events

We are actively seeking a Laboratory Assistant to join our Molecular Cell Biology team in Dungarvan, Co Waterford the role will support appropriate site operations to enable efficient and right first processing of customer samples throughout the relevant laboratory.

• General housekeeping activities in assigned department/ area, including keeping area clean and tidy and cleaning laboratory equipment etc. as required (e.g. refrigerators, incubators, stability chambers).
• Provision of laboratory/ area support to the team, through stock management, reagent preparation, equipment calibration and checks.
• Performing waste disposal duties as necessary.
• Completion of all documentation to required standard (ALCOA+).
• Order and maintain inventory of laboratory supplies, including PPE, consumables, and reagents, to support routine laboratory activities
• Upkeep of training records and completion of all EtQ training on time.
• Adhering to all company standards in the area of safety, housekeeping and quality, notifying management of any discrepancies.
• Flexibility ensuring that customers’ requirements are fully met and in so doing will be flexible to work in any area of the business as is required.
• To participate in the company On-Call / Call out rota as required.Flexibility may be required depending on the needs of the laboratory, this can include a change in working days and/or change in hours.

Education / Qualifications

• A full drivers license is a requirement for the role
• GMP experience/knowledge is preferred but not essential
• Knowledge/experience with aseptic techniques
• Good team player
• Good communication skills both internally and externally
• Competent in the use of a PC such as Word, Excel, Outlook.

Experience / Skills

• A full drivers license is a requirement for the role
• GMP experience/knowledge is preferred but not essential
• Knowledge/experience with aseptic techniques
• Good team player
• Good communication skills both internally and externally
• Competent in the use of a PC such as Word, Excel, Outlook.

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 works with the biggest companies in the world to ensure the products they supply are safe, their ingredients are authentic and labelling is accurate.Eurofins believes it is a global leader in food, environmental, pharmaceutical and cosmetics products testing and in agroscience CRO services. It is also one of the global independent market leaders in certain testing and laboratory services for genomics, discovery pharmacology, forensics, CDMO, advanced material sciences and in the support of clinical studies.

In over just 30 years, Eurofins has grown from one laboratory in Nantes, France to over 61,000 staff across a network of more than 1000 independent companies in over 61 countries and operating more than 900 laboratories. Eurofins offers a portfolio of over 200,000 analytical methods to evaluate the safety, identity, composition, authenticity, origin, traceability and purity of biological substances and products, as well as providing innovative clinical diagnostic testing services, as one of the leading global emerging players in specialised clinical diagnostics testing.