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 IT Project Manager will lead project planning, initiation, execution, management and closeout for new or established IT projects.  The role is working with an inhouse Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS).  The IT Project Manager will need to have laboratory knowledge and LIMS experience.  They will utilize their industry knowledge and project experience to improve all aspects of software development. 

 Essential Duties and Responsibilities 

• Analyze, plan and develop requirements and standards in reference to scheduled projects
• Establish and implement training processes and strategies for all technical personnel
• Assign and oversee the daily tasks of IT personnel while ensuring all subordinates are actively working toward established milestones
• Hold regular technical team meetings to determine progress and address any questions or challenges regarding projects
• Determine and define clear deliverables, roles and responsibilities for staff members required for specific projects or initiatives
• Update and maintain all production technologies ensuring proper maintenance and installation

Supervisory Responsibilities

• Team of 2 Developers, both working remotely. 

Working Relationships

Internal contacts:

• Project Manager Professionals
• Web Developer Team
• Users at all levels of the company.
• Consulting with the Marketing group on client-facing products.
• Working with technical experts
• Consulting with Quality control

External contacts:

• Regular contact with clients to discuss problems, feature requests, and training.
• Web design consulting firms that may contribute to client-facing products from time to time.

Material and Equipment Used

• Computer and operating software.
• Windows based PC.
• Personal protective equipment when in laboratory areas.

Physical Requirements

• Body Positions: Sitting (90% of time) for testing, analysis and design, walking (10% of time) when moving about laboratory.
• Hand Use: Computer keyboard.
• Hearing: Conversational hearing ability.
• Vision: Viewing computer screen and reading communications.
• Speaking: Conversational speaking ability.

Environmental Conditions

Typical indoor office environment. Potential exposure to caustic, corrosive, or carcinogenic samples exists when in laboratory areas.

NOTE: This job description is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all duties, responsibilities, or qualifications associated with the job.

To perform this job successfully, the individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements below are representative of the knowledge, skill or ability required.  

Required Skills, Certifications & Experience 

• Relevant bachelor’s degree or higher (Science, IT and/or Business)
• Demonstrated understanding of Project Management processes, strategies and methods

• Experience mentoring, coaching and developing rising talent in the technology department
• Excellent time management and organizational skills and experience establishing guidelines in these areas for others
• Strong sense of personal accountability regarding decision-making and supervising department teams
• Experience working in a high-level collaborative environment and promoting a teamwork mentality
• Managerial experience applying analytical thinking and problem-solving skills a plus
• LIMS experience required.
• Must have experience working in a laboratory environment, environmental preferred.
• Ability to predict challenges and seek to proactively head-off obstacles
• PMP, or PMP to be obtained within 1 yrs of employment. 
• 1+ years of project management experience

Position is full-time, Monday-Friday, 8 a.m.-5 p.m., with overtime as needed.  Candidates currently living within a commutable distance of our Eurofins EPK Built Environment Testing Laboratories are encouraged to apply. Role is remote, candidates within commutable distance are sought after. 

We support your development! Do you feel you don’t match 100% of the requirements? Don’t hesitate to apply anyway! Eurofins companies are committed to supporting your career development.

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/

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.

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 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.

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

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

Eurofins is a M/F, Disabled, and Veteran Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer.
 
Eurofins Environment Testing Businesses in the US are routinely engaged in Federal Contracts. Federal Government vaccination mandates may apply to staff working in these businesses. Successful applicants may be required to confirm vaccination status or demonstrate eligibility for medical or religious exemptions prior to commencing employment.  In addition, certain positions require travel for which vaccination is required in accordance with Eurofins policy.