Sample Management Operator

Eurofins; Kinsale; On-site; EUR 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading testing services company is seeking a full-time Sample Management Operator in Kinsale, Ireland. The role involves managing samples, ensuring accuracy and compliance, and supporting the client’s operations. Candidates should have GMP experience, strong organizational skills, and the ability to communicate effectively. Shift work is required, with a competitive benefits package available.

Benefits

Private Medical Insurance

Income protection and life assurance

Annual discretionary bonus

Free parking onsite

Additional annual leave days

Qualifications

• Experience in Sampling Operations is essential.
• Full driving license (category B) required.
• Organizational skills and flexibility are essential.

Responsibilities

• Ensure samples are collected and delivered accurately.
• Attend planning meetings with operations as required.
• Sort samples and manage retains sample process.

Skills

GMP experience

Time management

Team player

Professional communication skills

Job description

****We havefantastic opportunitiesfor a Sample Management Operator to join our client site based in Kinsale, Co Cork****

Consider joining Eurofins where people are the most important element in our business. Eurofins is a leading contract lab that provides testing and research services in the environmental, 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

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 productshelping to save lives across the world

Job Description

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

Job Responsibilities:

• Responsibility to ensure that all expected samples have been taken and reach their correct destination with 100% accuracy and completeness.
• Responsible for attending planning meetings with operations as required
• Responsibility for sorting samples in IE28 lab and deliver all relevant samples to their correct destination (fridge/freezer) with 100% accuracy
• Responsibility for split of bulk samples in the operating suites including preparation of BSC
• Responsibility for the management of retains sample process, including put-away, disposal, shipping and retrieval.
• Working with the Group Leader on the initiation and the disposal process, ensuring all team members are actively participating in disposal.
• Perform all tasks within the timelines outlined in the operating procedures while ensuring that there are no freezer excursions.
• Act as a key point of contact for all requests/queries relating to samples from both operations and the lab
• Additional responsibility for training colleagues in sample management procedures, having a full working knowledge of the Sample Management Operations and leading by example to ensure SMO group working to full potential.
• Liaise with IE28 labs to ensure timing of samples on a daily basis is met.
• Responsible for ensuring successful submission of Drug Substance release and stability samples to QCL and QA.
• Assisting in sample management investigations, gaining knowledge, gather information and understanding workflow to close all investigations.

Qualifications

• GMP experience within Sampling Operations is essential.
• Full driving licence cat B.
• Good organisation of time management and flexibility essential.
• Good team player.
• Good and professional communication skills both internally and externally.

Additional Information

*This is an opportunityto join Eurofinson a full time permanent basis, shift role.Shift is 05:30 - 17:30 working 4 days on then 4 days off.

*Benefits of pension contribution, medical insurance, health insurance and bonus are included in package.

*Eurofins Management and Team on client site for support.

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

Eurofins Scientificis 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.

Eurofins PSS Insourcing Solutionsis a global, award-winning insourcing solution. We place our skilled team directly at the client site, managing operations seamlessly and eliminating complexities. We ensure a strategic, long-term service commitment that delivers value directly at the client’ site, utilising their facilities, equipment, and methodologies, while maintaining the same service, expertise, and cGMP compliance available at the Eurofins facility. If you're an employee seeking an exceptional career journey, Eurofins PSS Insourcing Solutions is your gateway to a future where innovation, collaboration, and success converge. Join us in a world where excellence knows no boundaries!