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 50,000 staff across a network of more than 900 independent companies in over 50 countries and operating more than 800 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 € 6.72 billion, and has been among the best performing stocks in Europe over the past 20 years.

Eurofins CDMO is a leading international Contract Development and Manufacturing Organization (CDMO) based in Europe. Our company focuses on drug product development for chemical/biological entities and drug substance development for biologics. We support small and major biopharmaceutical companies in an innovative way to help them achieving their (pre)clinical milestones timely. Our solid track record in developing and manufacturing New Biological Entities (NBE)/New Chemical Entities (NCE) is one of our strongest asset. Our facilities are perfectly designed for small clinical and/or commercial batches either for sterile or non-sterile dosage forms. With approximatively 400 staff, we operate out of 10 sites either in France or Belgium.

He/She will be part of a team responsible for conducting activities in the field of process development and manufacturing of biologics, taking into account the regulatory requirements and clients’ needs. The activities are related to downstream processing, involving sample pretreatment, chromatography and filtration steps.

We are looking for a person to support the strong growth of the company.  He/she will report to the Team Leader Downstream Processing of DS Biologics.

Responsibilities

• Perform purification activities (cell homogenization, fractionation, chromatography, normal flow filtration, tangential flow filtration) under supervision of experienced scientists.
• Contribute to the development of new purification processes for a large range of biologics, including scale-up studies.
• Analyze samples from development runs to follow-up the performance of the purification process (SDS-PAGE, Western blotting, spectroscopy).
• Support the transfer of the developed purification processes to the GMP facility.
• Perform production runs in a GMP or non-GMP environment in accordance with the applicable requirements as described in procedures.
• Assist in the creation and maintenance of Standard Operating Procedures and Batch Record Documents.
• Document the work performed in a detailed way and give input for or write first drafts of development reports in collaboration with the Team Leader or Project Manager.
• Participate in the maintenance and calibration of process equipment.
• Communicate the status of operations to the Team Leader and team members.
• Maintain safe practices and work environment.

• Bachelor or Master Degree with scientific/technical orientation (Biochemistry, Bio-engineering, Industrial Engineering, Pharmaceutical sciences)
• Enthusiastic, pro-active, analytical, open-minded, curious and hands-on approach.
• Flexible attitude
• Be a good communicator within the team
• Ability to evaluate performed activities and be able to think about and suggest changes/improvements
• Ability to work independently as well as a member of a team in a dynamic environment
• Ability to plan own activities based on weekly input from the Team Leader/Project Manager
• Having a technical feeling to work with complex equipment
• Fluent in Dutch and/or English, written and spoken

• Work in a fast growing organization.
• A position with responsibility within a dynamic company.
• Personal development through learning on the job and additional external trainings.
• A market oriented compensation.