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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.
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.
Eurofins PSS Insourcing Solutions® is a global, award-winning insourcing solution. We place our skilled team directly at the client site, managing operations seamlessly and eliminating complexities. We ensure a strategic, long-term service commitment that delivers value directly at the client’ site, utilising their facilities, equipment, and methodologies, while maintaining the same service, expertise, and cGMP compliance available at the Eurofins facility. If you're an employee seeking an exceptional career journey, Eurofins PSS Insourcing Solutions® is your gateway to a future where innovation, collaboration, and success converge. Join us in a world where excellence knows no boundaries!
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
Unfortunately, we are unable to offer visa sponsorship for this role.
This is a full time, permanent position, working a flexible 36.5 hour week, Monday – Friday.
We are currently recruiting for an enthusiastic and innovative Analytical Scientist. This is an exciting opportunity based at our client’s facility, a world class Pharmaceutical company based in Macclesfield. We have an opportunity for experienced Analytical Scientists to support analysis of pharmaceutical Oral Drug Products and New Modalities with accurate results within an acceptable timeframe.
Job Responsibilities that you be covering:
- You will perform routine and non-routine analytical testing using a range of traditional and modern analytical techniques to support Oral Drug Products and New Modalities, in line with customer and project requirements.
- You will review analytical data for GLS and GMP compliance, prepare and approve test results within your area of competence, and ensure all work meets relevant quality standards.
- You will contribute to the development, validation and continuous improvement of analytical procedures, identifying opportunities to enhance quality, efficiency and customer service.
- You will investigate and follow up Out of Specification (OOS) results and action limit excursions in accordance with approved customer procedures.
- You will accurately document, maintain and update analytical records, reports and supporting documentation in compliance with client policies, procedures and regulatory requirements.
- You will train and support Eurofins and client colleagues in analytical techniques and electronic systems, while assisting with the preparation of technical reports and project deliverables.
Qualifications
What skills, qualifications and experiences you will hold as an Analytical Product Development Scientist:
- You will hold a degree in Chemistry or a related scientific discipline and have significant industrial experience in pharmaceutical analysis within a development laboratory or equivalent regulated environment.
- You will have extensive experience using traditional analytical techniques and modern instrumentation, including HPLC, Karl Fischer, Dissolution, Mass Spectrometry and other spectroscopic techniques, with the ability to interpret analytical data and troubleshoot methods and equipment.
- You will have a thorough understanding of chromatographic techniques and GMP requirements, with experience of working to high quality and compliance standards within a regulated environment.
- You will have the ability to rapidly learn new processes, proactively identify opportunities for improvement and contribute innovative solutions to enhance existing ways of working.
- You will have strong communication, organisational and documentation skills, be proficient in MS Office and electronic systems, and be capable of communicating technical information effectively to colleagues and clients.
- You will have the ability to work independently and collaboratively within a team, build strong working relationships, demonstrate a passion for quality and customer service, and experience working with peptides would be advantageous.
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:
- Being part of a Reward and Recognition Scheme, recognising great work across our teams.
- Holiday entitlement increases with service.
- The option to opt into our Health Cash Plan, designed to help look after your everyday health and wellbeing. This allows you to claim back the cost of routine healthcare expenses such as dental check-ups, eye tests, glasses or contact lenses and other everyday medical treatments.
- Life Assurance from day one, providing cover of four times your annual salary.
- Automatic enrolment into our Company Pension Plan after three months (with the flexibility to opt out if you choose)
- Access to our Employee Assistance Programme, offering 24/7 confidential support for both personal and work-related matters.
- Being able to register your interest in volunteering days, which are designed to support employees who wish to do voluntary work during working hours as part of a wider strategy to contribute positively to the local community.
- Free on-site car parking.
- The opportunity to explore worldwide 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 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.
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.
For more information about Eurofins PSS® please visit our website and watch a message below from our Global Head, Beth Di Paolo.
