Scientist - Market Life Stability

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.

This position is to join our innovative (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 record in combining excellent technical ability with first class interpersonal and communication skills.

Eurofins is currently recruiting for an experienced Analytical Scientist based at our Professional Scientific Services (PSS) site in Moreton, UK.

The main purpose of this job is to perform analytical testing of finished products for the Market Life Stability programme. This requires the generation and reporting of accurate results within a defined timeframe, following ALCOA principles. As an Analytical Scientist testing techniques will include HPLC, Dissolution, Karl Fisher and more. We are ideally seeking a scientist with 2 to 3 year pharmaceutical analysis experience in a GMP laboratory.

• Degree in Pharmaceutical Sciences, Allied Sciences or a related discipline.
• Experience of HPLC for Assay and impurities testing is essential.
• Stability or QC testing experience is essential.
• A sound, fundamental knowledge of Chemistry is required.
• Good understanding of cGMP is essential.
• Ability to troubleshoot instrumentation and analysis is required.
• Experience with dissolution testing, Karl Fisher water, GC and spectroscopic analysis is beneficial.
• Experience of Analytical Technology Transfers with internal and external customers is beneficial.
• Thorough understanding of chromatographic techniques
• Knowledge of instrument qualification would be an advantage.
• Ability to quickly learn new processes.
• Ability to work using fully electronic media, including MS Office, Laboratory Execution System and LIMS
• Ability to communicate clearly and to form strong working relationships with colleagues both internally and externally.
• Ability to work on own initiative and be capable of developing solutions to problems as part of a team.
• Organised, accurate, have strong documentation skills.
• Passionate about quality and customer service.

Benefits

At Eurofins we are growing, innovating and always learning. We celebrate the achievements of our employees through annual long service awards, recognise our colleagues special life events, and we are committed to charitable causes through global fundraising activities.

As a Eurofins employee you will benefit from:

• Reward and Recognition
• Eurofins Operational Development training
• Refer a Friend Scheme
• Life Assurance (4 times annual salary)
• Company Pension Plan
• Employee Assistance Programme – 24/7 confidential support.
• Free car parking
• Worldwide career opportunities
• Everyone who joins our team also gets access to Perkbox, allowing you to save money all year round. Whether its supermarket savings or days out, the daily coffee or a summer holiday – there’s something to suit everyone’s lifestyle.

What Happens Next

Our people are the backbone of what we do, so it’s incredibly important we find the right individuals to join us. As a potential new recruit you’ll be invited to meet the team to give you the opportunity to see what working for Eurofins is really like and enable us to get you know your key skills and strengths.

Application Tips

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Due to the high volume of applications we receive please be aware that if you do not receive a response within 4 weeks of the vacancy expiry date unfortunately, on this occasion your application has been unsuccessful.