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 Analysts (both junior and senior) 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

Eurofins PSS has permanent, full time positions for Microbiology and Chemistry Analysts to join our PSS team at Limerick. The positions are within a team of professionals who have been serving this client continually for many years. 

The cornerstones of our team operations are quality, productivity, superlative service and team morale.

The role will involve wet chemistry and microbiology testing including:

• Testing of Biological Indicators, Bioburden, Endotoxin, pH, Conductivity Nitrates and Total Organic Carbon
• Microbiological plate reading and streaking, sampling and testing environmental monitoring 
• Reporting and investigating anomalous or quality-related events

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. Employees will get the opportunity to be trained up in both wet chemistry and microbiology techniques and the aim depending on performance is to be trained up in a variety of test methods within 2 years. 

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!

• Degree in Microbiology, Chemistry, Biochemistry or a related discipline
• Minimum of 1 year’s relevant experience working within a Microbiology, Chemistry or Biochemistry Laboratory 
• Strong GMP knowledge is essential

Skills

The ideal candidates will be great team players, organised, accurate, have strong documentation skills, and be passionate about quality and customer service. They will have a flexible approach to changeable working patterns and be available for shift work.

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