Laboratory Technician

Eurofins; Kinsale; On-site; EUR 35,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading contract research organization is seeking a Laboratory Technician in Kinsale. The role involves calibrating lab equipment, managing samples, and ensuring cleanliness and quality standards. Candidates should have 1-2 years of housekeeping experience in a GMP environment, good communication skills, and a team-oriented mindset. The position offers developmental opportunities and a full-time permanent contract with excellent benefits.

Benefits

Private Medical Insurance

Income protection and life assurance

Annual discretionary bonus

Free parking onsite

Additional annual leave days

Qualifications

• Minimum of 1-2 years laboratory housekeeping experience, preferably in a GMP facility.
• GMP experience is preferable.

Responsibilities

• Verification/Calibration of laboratory equipment.
• Responsible for Sample Management.
• Buffer preparation in QCL Lab.
• Temperature monitoring within laboratories.
• Cleaning laboratory equipment and ensuring safety standards.

Skills

Team player

Good communication skills

Education

NCEA certificate in a related discipline

Job description

We have an opportunity for a Laboratory Technician to join our PSS Site in Kinsale.

What can Eurofins offer you as an employee of ours?

• Developmental opportunities and career progression
• The opportunity to work with our client - a world-leading pharmaceutical and biotechnology company
• Location is easily accessible
• Private Medical Insurance
• Income protection and life assurance
• Annual discretionary bonus
• Free parking onsite
• Full use of the canteen facilities on the client site
• Additional annual leave days with continued service
• The opportunity to work on therapeutic drugs helping to save lives across the world

Consider joining Eurofins, where people are the most important element in our business. Eurofins is a leading contract research organisation providing testing and research services in the pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical sciences to clients worldwide.

This position is to join our innovative Professional Scientific Services (PSS) programme as an employee of Eurofins. The programme places full-time analysts, technicians, scientists and technical support personnel managed by Eurofins directly at the client facility to provide long term staffing needs while maintaining the same services, expertise and cGMP compliance available at the Eurofins facility. This award-winning programme offers excellent career opportunities for people who have a proven track recording in combining excellent technical ability with first class interpersonal and communication skills.

Job Description

This is a great opportunity to join our award-winning team and partner with one of the world's top pharmaceutical companies. The cornerstones of our team operations are quality, productivity, superlative service and team morale.

The purpose of this job is to serve as a member of the ELL QCL group within the client environment to support their technical and analytical tasks, to work to the highest standards in terms of quality and professionalism.

Job Responsibilities:

• Verification/Calibration of laboratory equipment, including balances, pH meters and pipettes.
• Responsible for Sample Management including label printing, sample sorting, debagging and storage, notification to group.
• Responsible for Buffer preparation in QCL Lab.
• Responsible for temperature monitoring within laboratories daily.
• Responsible for Laboratory Equipment, tracking equipment usage, documenting new equipment, maintenance and decommissioning.
• Responsible for shipping materials to external laboratories for testing and preparing shipping documentation, as required.
• This person will be responsible for providing assistance for other members of staff as required
• Responsible for providing general assistance in laboratories.
• Responsible for cleaning laboratory equipment as required e.g. refrigerators, incubators etc.
• Responsible for sanitisation of laboratory areas, keeping the laboratory area clean and tidy in both ‘seen’ and ‘unseen’ areas.
• This person will ensure that all required documentation is completed on time, accurately and legibly.
• Responsible for adhering to all company standards in the areas of safety, housekeeping and quality, notifying management of any discrepancies.
• As with all members of staff this person is responsible for 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.

Qualifications

• NCEA certificate in a related discipline or administrative qualification is preferable.
• A minimum of 1-2 years laboratory housekeeping experience (preferably in GMP facility).
• GMP experience is preferable
• Good team player
• Good communication skills both internally and externally

Additional Information

This is an opportunity to join Eurofins on a full time permanent basis.

Working a 39 hour week, Monday – Thursday (08:00 – 17:00) & Friday (08:00 – 16:00)

Benefits include pension contribution, medical insurance, health insurance and bonus.

Eurofins Management and Team on client site for support.

Opportunity to get to know fantastic people and be part of a great team.

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 63,000 staff across a network of more than 1000 independent companies in over 60 countries and operating more than 950 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.

In 2024, Eurofins generated total revenues of EUR € 6.95 billion, and has been among the best performing stocks in Europe over the past 20 years.