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.

Operations Manager is responsible for the overall management of the operational activities of the environmental laboratory, ensuring high-quality analyses, timely execution of orders, and compliance with occupational safety regulations, the quality system, and accreditation requirements (including PCA / ISO 17025). The person in this role will lead a team of analysts and technicians, oversee laboratory processes, verify workload and resources, support the development of team competencies, and implement organizational improvements. The position requires active collaboration with sales, project, and quality departments.

Scope of Responsibilities:

• Supervision of daily laboratory operations, analysis planning, and resource management.
• Monitoring the efficiency and operational costs of the laboratory; initiating actions to improve productivity and profitability.
• Achieving productivity, quality, and cost-related targets.
• Reporting work progress, performance results, and operational challenges to the Business Unit Manager.
• Ensuring a high level of communication and collaboration with internal and external clients.
• Ensuring high-quality results and timely completion of orders in line with PCA / ISO 17025 requirements.
• Cooperation with the Quality Department regarding corrective actions and maintaining compliance with procedures and standards.
• Development and update of operational procedures and analytical methods in response to organizational needs or regulatory changes.
• Ensuring compliance with health and safety regulations and fostering a safety culture within the team.
• Managing the team: recruitment, training, performance evaluation, and competency development.
• Promoting an organizational culture based on safety, quality, ethics, and accountability.

Education and Experience:

• Higher technical education, preferably an engineering discipline.
• Minimum 5 years of experience in managing operational teams (e.g., production environment).
• Experience in implementing or maintaining quality systems is a strong asset.
• Experience working in a laboratory (preferably environmental) is an advantage.

Competencies:

• Strong planning, organizational, and work prioritization skills.
• Problem-solving and decision-making abilities.
• Very good command of English, both spoken and written.
• Proficient use of computer tools (MS Office, including MS Excel).
• Practical knowledge of Lean tools.
• Focus on quality, safety, and customer satisfaction.
• Basic understanding of financial principles (cost control).
• High responsibility, independence, and initiative.
• Ability to support, motivate, and develop a team.

What do we offer?

• Stable employment in a growing and reputable organization.
• Private medical care.
• Life insurance.
• Support for professional development, training, and certification.
• Opportunity to influence key operational processes and implement your own ideas.
• Work in a collaborative environment based on respect, quality, and continuous improvement.

We support your development! Do you feel like 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!  As an Equal Opportunity Employer, the Eurofins network of companies believes in strength and innovation through diversity. 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.

Find out more on our Careers page: https://careers.eurofins.com/

Company description: Eurofins Scientific is an international network of independent life sciences companies, 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 believes that it is a 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 also one of the market leaders in certain testing and laboratory services for genomics, and in the support of clinical studies, as well as in biopharma contract development and manufacturing. It also has a rapidly developing presence in highly specialised and molecular clinical diagnostic testing and in-vitro diagnostic products.

In under 40 years, Eurofins has grown from one laboratory in Nantes, France to over 65,000 employees across a decentralised and entrepreneurial network of over 950 laboratories in over 1,000 independent companies across 59 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.

The Eurofins network generated EUR 7.296 billion revenues in FY 2025, and has been one of the fastest growing listed European companies for almost three decades.