Job Title : Process Science Shift Lead Technician
Location : Limerick, County Limerick
Company : Eurofins Ireland PSS
Salary :
Open Date : 2023-01-14
Close Date : 2023-05-14

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.

We have fantastic opportunities for Process Science Shift Lead Technicians to join our Eurofins team based in our PSS site in Limerick. There has been substantial growth within this team over the last 12months so it's a really exciting time to join the team.

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 lead and manage an off-site Professional Staffing Services team of Laboratory Technicians to ensure that team is operating at the highest quality and productivity standards, have high morale and retention, and the agreed customer requirements are entirely satisfied and that customer expectations are met or exceeded through effective leadership and quality operational management. This person will be the key point of contact for the client on a day-to-day basis.

Job Responsibilities

• Effectively coordinating and managing the PSS team so that productivity, quality, documentation, work schedules, safety and housekeeping is run at maximum efficiency.
• Responsible for ensuring that the client gets the best possible service by continually reviewing best practice in relation to both commercial and quality issues and ensuring 100% ethical work standards and GMP compliance where required.
• Responsible for the development, coaching, motivation, and morale of team members through effective teambuilding and use of reward and recognitions systems celebrating team success.
• Responsible for reviewing and improving commercial work practices. Responsible for identifying areas where efficiencies may be improved and liaising with the client appropriately about any proposed improvements.
• Responsible for forward planning of activities in order to maximise the use of client resources during training periods.
• Responsible for ensuring that work is scheduled and cross training takes place so that the service levels agreed with the customer are achieved. Responsible for amending schedules as required.
• Ensure that all technicians are trained and have completed training records for all tests and other training completed.
• Responsible for carrying out performance appraisals with staff as part of the overall performance management programme within the organisation. Responsible for supporting cell culture and downstream purification projects including set-up of equipment and material preparation
• Responsible for bioreactor preparation, media/feed/buffer make-ups, probe/equipment calibration and organization.
• Responsible for building bioreactors and bioreactors assemble and complete bioreactor sampling
• Responsible for sample submission in line with site guideline sand procedures
• Responsible for 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.
• Responsible for the completion of training records for the team, and ensuring that all records presented for review and approval are at the appropriate standard
• Ensuring that clients requirements are fully met and be flexible to work in any area of the business as is required by the client

Qualifications

• Diploma/Degree in relevant scientific discipline.
• 2-3 years’ experience in a laboratory environment.

Experience / Skills

• Leadership Skills
• Good planning and organisational skills
• Accuracy and attention to detail
• Good team player
• Strong IT skills
• Good communication skills both internally and externally
• Familiarity with pharmaceutical and/or laboratory operations (GMP, Documentation, Autoclaves, Sample Management)

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 58,000 staff across a network of more than 1000 independent companies in over 54 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 2021, Eurofins generated total revenues of EUR € 6.7 billion, and has been among the best performing stocks in Europe over the past 20 years.

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