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 55,000 staff across a network of more than 1000 independent companies in over 50 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 2020, Eurofins generated total revenues of EUR € 5.4 billion, and has been among the best performing stocks in Europe over the past 20 years.

Job Summary

To process customer samples throughout the relevant laboratory keeping in mind efficiency, quality and accuracy standards as required by the company.

Job Responsibilities

Responsible for logging samples on the laboratory computer system.

Responsible for ensuring that daily consumables are monitored and stocked.

Responsible for ensuring glassware and other tools are readily available to analysts.

To ensure shredding of chemistry department paper is carried out on a regular basis.

Logging of new reagents into Nautilus, providing reagents with nautilus number, logging out of use/expired reagents from nautilus.  Segregating reagents into specific locations.

Responsible for the calibrating automatic pipettes and balances.

Responsible for logging of columns and new equipment.

Responsible for refilling desiccators and pipette washers when out of date.

Responsible for removing laboratory waste (includes chemical waste from micro)

Responsible for the ordering of all materials from stores, this includes following up on ordered items.

This person take responsibility of the upkeep of the water systems, taking daily samples, reviewing results and the maintenance of the systems.

Responsible for preparing samples prior to analysis.

Responsible for checking weights and temperatures in line with company procedures.

Responsible for disposing of retained samples at regular intervals and completing all relevant documentation in this area.

Responsible for organising and arranging for samples to be sent out for sub-contracted analysis.

Responsible for cleaning laboratory equipment as required e.g. refrigerators, incubators etc.

Responsible for all drawers in the laboratory i.e. they are tidy and only contain relevant items.

Ensuring that daily consumables are monitored and stocked.

To participate in the company On-Call / Call out rota as required.

Education / Qualifications

Leaving Cert qualification

A minimum of 6months administration experience

Experience / Skills

GMP experience/knowledge is preferred but not essential

Good team player

Good communication skills both internally and externally