Specialist Chemist (Inorganics)

Eurofins QTA Inc.; Newmarket; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 60,000

Job 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.

Chemtest is part of Eurofins; we are an award winning company providing routine analytical services and bespoke specialist testing throughout the UK, Ireland and Europe. Our staff are employed across a number of strategically placed locations, all utilising the latest technologies. Our laboratories are UKAS accredited to ISO/IEC 17025:2005 and, where applicable the Environment Agency MCERTS Performance Standard for soils.

Job Description

Role Purpose:

The Specialist Chemist is responsible for performing, documenting and reporting various studies, investigations, methods used for improvements of Eurofins Chemtest service offerings and quality of test results.

Manage allocated tasks and methods, maintain assigned laboratory equipment in working order in line with laboratory SOPs and Quality Management System compliant to ISO 17025. Using attention to detail with critical thinking produce reliable and accurate method validation data.

Support the laboratory mission. Participates in the continuous quality improvement process through professional development, continuing education, and quality improvement.

Assist with QMS and SOP improvements and effectively communicate any observed deviations and non-compliances.

Duties:

• Contribute to development, compilation and presentation of method validation packages in line with accreditation requirements.
• Review and, where necessary, provide detailed plans to update methods within the inorganic department to reflect best practice.
• Support inorganics department in areas requiring advanced expertise in analytical chemistry.
• Research and develop any new and diverse inorganic analytical techniques as required by the client and business.
• Investigate and conduct non routine methodology and data generation as required by client and business.
• Assist in investigations, review and presentation of resource developments that would improve analytical methodology.
• Assist quality team with scheduled audits.
• Develop and implement business improvement ideas, across all areas of the organics lab, which will enhance instrument availability, reduce the amount of re-work and the number of customer queries, and improve the quality of our analytical capabilities, and the service our clients receive.
• Support the sales and marketing team on technical matters, and assist wherever possible in winning new clients, and smooth onboarding.
• Assist in the future planning for the organics lab, including capacity assessments, choice of new instruments, the purchasing of consumables, etc.

Responsibilities:

• Assist Technical Team with the implementation of the Quality management System (QMS) and supporting procedures (SOPs)
• Identify and communicate apparent deviations, issues, non-compliances with laboratory quality and test procedures
• Comply with quality control procedures to assist with improvements with laboratory practices
• Raise and perform effective non-conformance investigations in a timely manner including but not limited to equipment and QC failures, customer complaints.
• Follow safety standards and protocols at all times in regard to safe handling of samples, standards, chemicals and wear proper protective personal equipment. Ensure other team members work in a safe manner
• Ensure that the laboratory areas and work surfaces are free from clutter and any spillages on the bench, floor and especially the instruments are immediately cleaned up
• Assist others in the performance of their duties in the areas of expertise, if and when assigned
• Maintain confidentiality as detailed in Eurofins Chemtest QMS.
• Quality Management System & ISO 17025, Health and Safety & ISO14001 requirements of your role, and perform any other reasonable duties as required by the Eurofins Chemtest Business.

Qualifications

Qualifications:

• Science Degree or equivalent
• Minimum of 5 years experience in a relevant analytical role

Key Attributes:

• Project Management
• Professional Relationship Management
• Integrity
• Technical Competence
• Action orientated
• Strong organizational, multi-tasking and time management skills.
• Team player
• Self-Motivation

Skills/ Experience:

• Understanding of IEC/ISO 17025, MCERTS, ISO 9001, other ISO standards and Quality Management Systems.
• Checking, examining of results and records
• Lab research principles
• Organisational skills
• Problem solving
• PC literate – Intermediate
• Technical Knowledge
• Industry knowledge
• Proven Analytical experience
• Safety Regulations and Procedures
• Understanding of Regulatory Requirements

Additional Information

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 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!