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 is the global leader in food, environment, pharmaceutical and cosmetic product testing and in agroscience Contract Research Organisation services. Eurofins 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. The Group also has a rapidly developing presence in highly specialised and molecular clinical diagnostic testing and in-vitro diagnostic products.

In over just 30 years, Eurofins has grown from one laboratory in Nantes, France to 55,000 staff across a decentralised and entrepreneurial network of 900 laboratories in over 50 countries. 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.

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.

EAG Eurofins is a scientific services company offering a breadth of expertise and a diversity of analytical techniques to help our clients understand the physical and chemical properties of their materials.  Join our multi-disciplinary team as a TXRF/XRF scientist. 

Responsible for operating analytical TXRF (Total Reflection X-Ray Fluorescence) and XRF (X-Ray Fluorescence) instrumentation. This position requires a solid technical foundation in materials science and/or analytical chemistry. 

A typical day in the TXRF/XRF group will consist of multiple activities and interactions, including:  

1. Writing up reports and processing previously acquired data 
2. Planning upcoming analyses 
3. Loading the instruments and acquiring new data. For TXRF, this would involve entering our class 10 cleanroom once or twice a day. The instrument is operated remotely so cleanroom time is only needed to exchange batches of samples. 
4. For XRF, you may need to prepare the samples using one of our prep tools, such as our fluxer. 

In parallel with that, you will likely have multiple other demands on your time: 

1. Internal group meetings to plan overall use of the instruments to meet deadlines 
2. Requests from customers to discuss prior reports or they may have questions about future analyses 
3. Meetings with the EAG sales team (which may also include customers) to discuss analyses and how we can help solve customers’ problems 

You may also have some longer-term projects you are working on, such as: 

1. Developing new analysis methods for new materials 
2. Producing marketing materials or writing a paper 
3. Working with our support team or vendors on fine tuning our instruments 
4. Learning another adjacent technique or other training goals 

All of these activities require a lot of communications, cooperation and collaboration with your co-workers and colleagues. You’ll be learning to do a lot of things at once to keep multiple projects all moving forward, and you will be keeping other people in the team updated as to what you are doing. It’s a fast-moving job and we all like to share the load so helping other people in the team, and also being helped by them is part of what we do, in order to collectively help our clients meet their goals. Along the way you’ll do a lot of science too! 

Note: Use of information in this role is subject to the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR). All accepted applicants must be U.S. Persons as defined by ITAR: U.S. Person is a U.S. Citizen, U.S. Permanent Resident (i.e., "Green Card Holder"), Political Asylee, or Refugee. 

Ideal candidate will have a BS, MS or PhD degree in Chemistry, Physics or Materials Science with 1 or more years of industrial experience designing analytical protocols, operating TXRF and XRF analytical instrumentation, interpreting TXRF and XRF analytical data, applying an understanding of the data to solve specific problems, writing scientific reports that include methodology, conclusions and supporting data, and comfortable working in a fast-paced environment with firm deadlines. 

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Eurofins is a M/F, Disabled, and Veteran Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer.