QC Microbiologist

QC Microbiologist Grimsby, England

Eurofins UK Food Testing
Full Time Grimsby, England 19296 - 20638 GBP ANNUAL Today
Job description

Company Description


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 laboratories work with the biggest companies in the world to ensure the products they supply are safe, their ingredients are authentic, and labelling is accurate.

Eurofins is dedicated to delivering testing services that contribute to the health and safety of society and the planet, and to its corporate responsibility to protect the environment and ensure diversity, equity, and inclusion across the entire network of Eurofins companies.

The Eurofins network of companies is the global leader in food, environment, pharmaceutical and cosmetic product testing and in discovery pharmacology, forensics, advanced material sciences and Eurofins Scientific 2/2 March 2023 agroscience contract research services. It is one of the market leaders in certain testing and laboratory services for genomics, discovery pharmacology, forensics, advanced material sciences and in the support of clinical studies, as well as having an emerging global presence in Contract Development and Manufacturing Organisations. It also has a rapidly developing presence in highly specialised and molecular clinical diagnostic testing and in-vitro diagnostic products.

In over 35 years, Eurofins has grown from one laboratory in Nantes, France to 61,000 staff across a decentralised and entrepreneurial network of ca. 900 laboratories in 61 countries. Eurofins companies offer a portfolio of over 200,000 analytical methods to evaluate the safety, identity, composition, authenticity, origin, traceability and purity of biological substances and products.

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.


Job Description


Please note this is a full time role, working 37.5 hours per week - Monday to Friday 09:00 till 17:00.

The purpose of this role is to assist the Senior microbiologist in the day to day quality functions of the food microbiology laboratory. Main duties to include:

  • Assist the Principal microbiologist in the day to day quality functions of the food microbiology laboratory
  • Carry out timely investigations into non-conformances.
  • Carry out equipment calibrations were required.
  • Carry out daily process controls and recovery levels for test methods that are in use.
  • Ensure all media checks are carried out in a timely manner ensuring effective supply of culture media to internal and external labs.
  • To ensure that weekly environmental checks are carried out.
  • Maintenance and control of the reference organisms.
  • To organise and perform non-routine analytical work and solve technical problems if requested.
  • To work in a safe manner with due regard for both personal safety and the safety of others and maintain own work area to a good housekeeping standard.

Qualifications
  • Computer literate with experience of the MS office packages (Word, Excel, PowerPoint). Ideally be familiar with laboratory information management systems (LIMS).
  • A degree in Microbiology (or other relevant science) is preferred, and/or proven practical laboratory experience, in line lead role within microbiology.
  • Knowledge of specialist tests, method development and problem finding for clients e.g. source of contamination.
  • Must be able to work under pressure and to strict time deadlines.

Additional Information


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:

  • 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 in the form of an assessment centre or a staged interview process dependent on the role and it's requirements, this will 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.

Your data

As part of any recruitment process, the company collects and processes personal data relating to job applicants. The company is committed to being transparent about how it collects and uses that data and to meeting its data protection obligations.

Closing Date

We reserve the right to close or extend this position depending on application numbers. Therefore we would urge candidates to submit an application as early as possible.

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.

We embrace diversity! Eurofins network of companies believe in strength and innovation through diversity, being an Equal Opportunity Employer. We prohibit discrimination against employees or applications based on gender identity and/or expression, race, nationality, age, religion, sexual orientation, disability, and everything else that makes employees of Eurofins companies unique.

Sustainability matters to us! We are well on our way to achieving our objective of carbon neutrality by 2025, through a combination of emission reduction and compensation initiatives. We encourage our laboratory leaders to make sustainable changes at their local level, and in addition to their initiatives we also count on our dedicated carbon reduction team to help us to achieve this goal!

Find out more in our career page: https://careers.eurofins.com/

QC Microbiologist
Eurofins UK Food Testing

www.eurofins.com
Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Gilles G. Martin
$5 to $10 billion (USD)
10000+ Employees
Company - Private
Biotech & Pharmaceuticals
1987
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