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.

Please note this is a Fixed Term Contract ending October 2025.

Hybrid working is available.

Working hours are Monday-Friday, 9am-5pm (hours are negotiable)

The purpose of the role is to direct, facilitate and support multiple UK sites in scope in complying with Health & Safety, Environmental and Facilities legal requirements, guidance and best practice. To promote a HSE excellence culture, leading the drive to reduce incidents and uphold the framework for the sites to report, monitor and control their HSE KPIs.

• Understand the strategic direction and manage work priorities (in conjunction with HSE Team and site management) for the continuous HSE improvement of the sites.
• Support the Head of HSE with the implementation of new Health & Safety and Environmental Management Systems at the sites.
• Support the National Facilities Manager with limited aspects of Facilities Management.
• Provide sound advice to site management and assist with the implementation of new or existing HSE-related legislation, rules and Company standards to include fire and incident prevention, Health and Safety awareness training and site inspections
• To complete HSE inspections on a regular basis and ensure records maintained.
• To support site leadership with incident investigation and ensure all required documentation is completed.  To support the HSE Communication Strategy for all sites and levels of staff.
• Collate, analyse and report HSE Key Performance Indicators for all sites in scope
• Responsibility for Company preparations for HSE audits
• Advise management in Laboratories, Logistics, Offices and on site of health, safety and environmental matters and manage this process to ensure all advice is incorporated into day-to-day processes and operations.
• Facilitate all forms of risk assessment e.g. general, manual handling, COSHH, fire prevention and act as a final authority where a specialist response is required.
• Maintain the sites’ Authorisation/Permit To Work systems to ensure compliance with Company standards.

This role will cover multiple Eurofins sites therefore may include travel and incur occasional overnight stays.

• The ideal candidate will have a background in chemistry and/or microbiology laboratories and safety management experience.
• NEBOSH National General Certificate will be required to fulfil this role.
• Knowledge of COSHH/REACH requirements.
• Experience in managing Health, Safety & Facilities
• Experience managing high-risk, fast-paced environments.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office software (Word, Excel, Powerpoint etc)
• Excellent written and spoken communication skills
• Must be able to converse on all levels and manage change processes.
• Must be self-motivated and demonstrate a real passion for Health & Safety 

Benefits

At Eurofins we are growing, innovating and always learning. We celebrate the achievements of our employees through annual long service awards, recognise our colleagues special life events, and we are committed to charitable causes through global fundraising activities.

As a Eurofins employee you will benefit from:

• Holiday Purchase Scheme
• Life Assurance (4 times annual salary)
• Company Pension Plan
• Employee Assistance Programme – 24/7 confidential support.
• Free car parking
• Worldwide career opportunities
• Everyone who joins our team also gets access to Perkbox, allowing you to save money all year round. Whether its supermarket savings or days out, the daily coffee or a summer holiday – there’s something to suit everyone’s lifestyle.

 What Happens Next

Our people are the backbone of what we do, so it's incredibly important we find the right individuals to join us. As a potential new recruit you'll be invited to meet the team to give you the opportunity to see what working for Eurofins is really like and enable us to get you know your key skills and strengths. 

Application Tips

It’s really helpful for our Recruitment Team if you include a full up to date CV, your current location and a contact number so we can talk to you about our exciting opportunities. Please also detail your current Right to Work status in the UK.

Due to the high volume of applications we receive please be aware that if you do not receive a response within 4 weeks of the vacancy expiry date unfortunately, on this occasion your application has been unsuccessful. 

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/