Part Time Logistics Administrator

Eurofins QTA Inc.; Sheffield; On-site; GBP 20,000 - 30,000

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.

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

Working for the logistics team the purpose of this role will be to plan driver routes to ensure that all deliveries and collections are successfully achieved daily, including liaising with engineers, couriers, internal drivers, and the customer service team.

This is a permanent part time role working 20 hours per week - Monday to Friday 10:00 till 14:00. Candidates must be able to cover longer hours during Logistics planner holidays.

• Liaising with external support services, such as agency drivers & office administrators to ensure that routes cover all collections.
• Minimise the use of couriers in favour of our own logistics.
• Liaising with engineers and drivers daily to arrange collections & deliveries to and from sites.
• Effective management of peak demand by efficient utilisation of the above or cover should the need arise.
• Communicate all delays reported by drivers, couriers & engineers regarding the returning samples to laboratory for processing.
• Utilise company CRM (i.e. Fresh Suite) for liaising with engineers/ colleagues.
• Sample collections from various sites (cover as required).
• Establish effective, professional, positive working relationships with colleagues & engineers.
• Be responsible for personal health and safety at work.
• Handle confidential information with due care and maintain confidentiality.
• Always maintain a tidy and clean workplace.
• Ensure any concerns or issues regarding to the van are communicated immediately.
• Communicate any personal or professional development needs to your line manager.

Qualifications

• Experience in transport or Logistics surrounding, would be beneficial.
• Be friendly and helpful.
• Excellent communications skills both spoken and written.
• Be organised.
• Flexible and able to prioritise a changing ‘to do’ list.
• Trustworthy and reliable.
• Able to work in a wider team.
• Knowledge of local collection area(s) is ideal, however not essential.

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
• Additional Annual Leave Purchase scheme
• 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 its requirements, this will give you the opportunity to see what working for Eurofins is really like and enable us to get to 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/