Company Description

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.

We currently have exciting opportunities to join our innovative and multi award-winning Professional Scientific Services (PSS) teams. The excellent service provided via our PSS model is delivered while maintaining the same commitment to excellence, expertise and cGMP compliance available at our Eurofins facilities.

Eurofins PSS are currently recruiting a Process Science Equipment Analyst to join our PSS team at Limerick. This role is within a team of professionals who have been serving this client continually for many years.

What can Eurofins PSS Limerick offer you?

• Developmental opportunities and career progression
• The opportunity to work with our client - a leading 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 life saving products

Job Description

The primary purpose of this role is to support the Process Science department by maintaining their laboratory instrumentation in an operational, qualified state. This entails ensuring both instrument hardware and software qualifications are completed in a timely manner and keeping them in a qualified state

Job Responsibilities

• Maintaining laboratory equipment by performing checks (i.e. calibrations, reagent replenishment) and organizing performance maintenance or services as required in conjunction with laboratory staff and project schedules.
• Provide core technical support with preparation of, and maintenance of, day-to-day lab equipment.
• Generate equipment risk assessments and ensure approval prior to vendors arrival on site
• Liaise with vendors and service providers to ensure equipment maintenance / calibration programme timelines are achieved
• Maintain and update of laboratory equipment maintenance records, electronic laboratory notebooks (ELN), and associated data files as appropriate to tasks.
• Preventative maintenance and calibration of laboratory equipment, not limited to, pH meter, conductivity meter, osmometer, balances, glassware washer.
• Provide assistance for other members of staff in relation to equipment as required
• Providing training to other team members as instructed by Lead. Ensuring all training delivered is documented appropriately
• Ensuring all required documentation and logbooks are completed on time, accurately and legibly.
• Ensuring that clients requirements are fully met and be flexible to work in any area of the business as is required by the client

Successful applicants will have the opportunity to work as part of a successful, dynamic and progressive company that puts individual development at the forefront, and promotes from within in order to achieve a high performing team that delivers a superlative service to its clients.

We offer many training paths, including LEAN and leadership development, and actively encourage innovation and participation in continuous improvement and project work.

Excellent terms and conditions offered!

Qualifications

• Requires a Degree in Chemistry or Biology; may consider another degree discipline with relevant experience
• At least 2 years relevant experience in a cGMP environment is required
• Experience with executing IQ/OQ/PQ protocols and administering software databases and working knowledge of change control in the pharmaceutical industry would be advantageous

The ideal candidate will be a great team player, organised, accurate, have strong documentation skills, and be passionate about quality and customer service. The successful candidate will be empowered to delight the client through excellent service, initiative, quality, integrity, productivity, kindness, innovation, teamwork, and top notch scientific contributions

Additional Information

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.

In 2022, Eurofins generated total revenues of EUR € 6.7 billion, and has been among the best performing stocks in Europe over the past 20 years