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 Department Manager is responsible for the overall operations of a specific laboratory area. These responsibilities include but are not limited to meeting client satisfaction goals, managing the human resources within the department, and ensuring health and safety and quality assurance plan compliance. Serves as a technical resource to department employees, as well as Project Managers, sales personnel, and clients. Make recommendations to laboratory management in regard to process improvements.

• Develops and monitors group analysis schedules based on current and projected workloads and staffing. 
• Accountable to meet On Time Delivery goal of greater than 90% within department. 
• Responsible for the consistent and proper use of backlog training and update process. 
• Supervises analyses on potentially hazardous samples. 
• Reviews and interprets results from samples analyzed. 
• With Quality Control, determines acceptable corrective actions for the nonconformance occurring within his/her group. 
• Interviews and evaluates candidates for job openings within area of responsibility. 
• Initiates improvements to procedures process, work methods, equipment performance and quality of service. 
• Responsible for upholding and enforcing Company policies, including but not limited to, Quality, Safety, Standard Operating Procedures, Ethics, and Harassment. 
• Develops and reviews standard operating procedures for the group, as needed, to address new or revised analytical methods.
• Acts as problem solver for unique technical situations, making recommendations on data acceptability. 
• Communicates department issues and provides status reports to Laboratory Director and Project Managers. 
• Recommends process improvements to improve efficiency. 
• Sets standards for and monitors productivity within the group 
• Responsible for controlling costs within the group. 
• Conducts subordinate annual formal performance evaluations, goals and development. 
• Responsible for maintenance of inventory within his/her group. 
• Monitors subordinates’ work daily to ensure both satisfactory productivity as well as compliance. 
• May prepare and analyze samples for analysis based on method requirements. 
• May upload data files to reporting system. 
• May review data produced in assigned department and authorizes its release. 
• Responsible for upholding and enforcing Company policies, including but not limited to, Quality, Safety, Standard Operating Procedures, Ethics, and Harassment. 
• Expected to champion Health & Safety and assume ownership for the safety of those employees within her/his responsibility.
• Participates in subordinates career planning process, evaluations, and training. Initiates actions leading to their professional development (targeted training, temporary job assignments, etc.) 
• Interprets company, divisional and laboratory policies and procedures to subordinates. 
• Trains subordinates on work procedures. 
• Recommends or initiates personnel actions such as promotions, transfers, bonus distribution, disciplinary measures or termination actions.

Basic Minimum Qualifications: 

• Bachelors degree in Chemistry or related field
• Minimum of 3 years analytical chemistry experience or equivalent training experience with 3 years as supervisor
• Analytical and/or General Science 

Ideal candidates will have: 

• Minimum of 8 years of analytical chemistry experience
• Metals experience including ICP and ICP-MS 
• Experience with Environmental Wet Chemistry 
• Experience working in an environmental lab 
• Quality Assurance knowledge and experience 
• Knowledge of Standard Operating Procedures 
• Laboratory safety rules and chemical hazards 
• Maintenance of laboratory instruments 
• Advanced knowledge of laboratory procedures and methodology 
• Human Resource policies and procedures 
• Effective communication skills 
• Computer skills 
• Strong organizational and time management skills 
• Problem solving skills 
• Supervisory and management skills 
• Ability to prioritize and handle multiple priorities 
• Complete work within time and quality constraints 
• To confront and successfully resolve both day-to-day and nonroutine, complex problems 
• Plan, set and attain goals 
• Effectively lead employees 
• Effectively train employees on SOP’s

As a Eurofins employee, you will become part of a company that has received national recognition as a great place to work.  We offer excellent full-time benefits including comprehensive medical coverage, life and disability insurance, 401(k) with company match, paid holidays, paid time off, and dental and vision options.

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 Eurofins Scientific 2/2 March 2023 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 Organizations. It also has a rapidly developing presence in highly specialized 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 decentralized 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 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.