Chemistry Laboratory Technician - Fixed Term Contract
On site
Needham Market, United Kingdom
Freelance
26-02-2025
Job Specifications
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.
We’re proud to be an armed forces-friendly place to work and welcome applications from reservists, armed forces veterans (including the wounded, injured and sick), as well as cadet instructors, and military spouses and partners.
If you want to continue to help make our world a safer and healthier place, then apply for the role below and become a part of the extraordinary Eurofins network.
Job Description
Joining our Food Chemistry testing laboratory in Needham Market, the purpose of this role is to process food samples to the required quality standards following the given method using laboratory techniques.
Please note this is a fixed term ending 30/09/2025, working Monday to Friday 08:30 till 16:30. No laboratory experience is required, full training will be given.
Registration, processing and preparation of food samples as required.
Undertaking all tasks within the main laboratory appropriate to the level of training given to you by senior analysts and management.
Adhering to documented procedures for all aspects of laboratory work, ensuring that all relevant information concerning samples is recorded, that samples are handled correctly, and that all necessary records and quality data are maintained.
Ensure all relevant paperwork is completed throughout the day.
Maintain turnaround time at >95%, ensuring that daily targets are achieved.
Responsible for ensuring that UK health and safety legislation is maintained and helping to ensure that the working environment is kept in a clean and tidy.
Ensure personal protective clothing equipment is worn in accordance with the Health & Safety policy.
Work with the team to drive the laboratory forward through continuous improvement.
To assist through operating best practice in order to meet the requirements of the UKAS accreditation standard.
Provide a high level of internal and external customer care.
A flexible approach to work will be required to assist other departments as and when required.
Assist with continuous improvement within the chemistry department.
Qualifications
Educated to GCSE level or equivalent.
Experience working as part of a team.
Will be of advantage to have experience working in a fast paced environment.
Good organisation and time management.
Good verbal and written communication skills.
Ability to self-motivate.
Additional Information
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:
Enhanced Annual Leave Entitlement
Annual Leave Sellback Scheme
Additional Annual Leave at Employees set service dates
Company Pension Plan
Life Assurance Scheme (4 times annual salary)
Healthcare Cash Plan (6+ months service)
Enhanced Maternity, Adoption and Paternity Schemes
Employee Assistance Programme – 24/7 confidential
Health and Wellbeing Programmes
Free parking
Worldwide career opportunities
We also have in place rewards recognising the great work out employees deliver, their dedicated service and celebrating special life events.
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 in the form of an assessment centre or a staged interview process dependent on the role and it's requirements, this will 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.
Your data
As part of any recruitment process, the company collects and processes personal data relating to job applicants. The company is committed to being transparent about how it collects and uses that data and to meeting its data protection obligations.
Closing Date
We reserve the right to close or extend this position depending on application numbers. Therefore we would urge candidates to submit an application as early as possible.
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 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/
About the Company
Since 1987, Eurofins has grown from one laboratory in Nantes, France to ca. 63,000 staff across a network of independent companies in 60 countries, operating over 950 laboratories. Performing over 450 million tests every year, 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 emergi... Know more
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