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Eurofins Night Shift Production Supervisor in Newmarket, United Kingdom
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.
Working hours are Monday - Friday, 2:30am - 10:30am.
Salary - £27,536
Previous experience within a laboratory is not required.
Ensuring workloads are processed within Phase 1 to meet timescales determined by customers and the business
People management responsibility for the Lab on a day to-day-basis i.e. sickness, annual leave and productivity
Sample preparation as required
Entering results onto LIMS
Maintain divisions internal TAT target(s)
Solving team problems and making decisions within the team to resolve issues.
Suggest and improve processes on the Lab to help improve internal TAT.
Monitoring and ensuring quality control in compliance with laboratory quality systems
Highlighting key problems or successes for the team to the Divisional Team Leader
Maintaining the laboratory equipment in line with safety certification and operating manuals
Day-to-day reporting of internal TAT statistics
Monitoring of backlogs
Overseeing the expression of results
Ensuring daily and monthly Quality checks are carried out.
Responsible for maintaining work area cleanliness.
Identify and plan for team training
Previous experience within a laboratory is not required, full training will be provided.
People Management skills
Organisational skills
Communication skills
Problem solving
Relevant and previous laboratory experience
Numerical & verbal reasoning
Experience in working in part of a team
Good organisation and time management
Good verbal and written communication skills
Ability to self-motivate
Benefits
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:
Life Assurance (4 times annual salary)
Company Pension Plan
Employee Assistance Programme – 24/7 confidential support.
Free car parking
Worldwide career 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.
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!
Find out more in our career page: https://careers.eurofins.com/