Shift Team Lead

Eurofins are currently recruiting for a Shift Team Lead for our expanding client site in Limerick. 

The primary purpose of this role is to lead a Professional Scientific Services (PSS) team of analytical staff to ensure that team is operating at the highest quality and productivity standards, have high morale and retention, and the agreed client requirements are entirely satisfied and that client expectations are met or exceeded through effective leadership and quality operational management, under the supervision of the PSS Group Leader and Manager. This person will be a key point of contact for the client on a day-to-day basis.

What can Eurofins offer you as an employee of ours?

• Developmental opportunities and career progression
• The opportunity to work with our client - a world -leading pharmaceutical and biotechnology company
• Location is easily accessible
• Private Medical Insurance 
• Income protection and life assurance
• Annual discretionary bonus
• Free parking onsite
• Full use of the canteen facilities on the client site
• Additional annual leave days with continued service

Job Description

Consider joining Eurofins, where people are the most important element in our business. Eurofins is a leading contract research organisation providing testing and research services in the pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical sciences to clients worldwide.

This position is to join our innovative Professional Scientific Services (PSS) programme as an employee of Eurofins. The programme places full-time analysts, technicians, scientists and technical support personnel managed by Eurofins directly at the client facility to provide long term staffing needs while maintaining the same services, expertise and cGMP compliance available at the Eurofins facility. This award-winning programme offers excellent career opportunities for people who have a proven track recording in combining excellent technical ability with first class interpersonal and communication skills

Job Responsibilities

• Work with the Group Leader to effectively coordinate and lead the PSS shift team so that productivity, quality, documentation, work schedules, safety and housekeeping are run at maximum efficiency.
• Ensuring that the client gets the best possible service by continually reviewing best practice in relation to both commercial and quality issues and ensuring 100% ethical work standards and GMP compliance.
• Development, coaching, motivation, and morale of team members through effective teambuilding and use of reward and recognitions systems celebrating team success.
• Responsible for quality risk assessment of various technical processes, including sampling plans; preparation of validation protocols and subsequent procedures for final approval by client personnel.
• Reviewing and approving all relevant documentation and technical data in a timely manner and ensuring that it communicated, documented, and filed accurately.
• Reviewing and improving commercial work practices. Identify areas where efficiencies may be improved and liaising with the PSS Group Leader and client appropriately about any proposed improvements.
• Forward planning of activities in order to maximise the use of client resources during training periods.
• Ensuring that work is scheduled and cross training takes place
• Performing all sampling and analyses required to the correct standard and turn-around times.
• Responsible for carrying out performance appraisals with staff as part of the overall performance management programme within the organisation.
• Assist in the training of analysts.
• Write SOP’s, protocols, trending reports on an on-going basis, as required.
• Initiate and investigate non-compliance or out of trend/ specification situations in the laboratory. Liaise with Group Leader to facilitate close out of Lab Investigations and Non-Conformances/Deviations.
• Responsible for handling any customer related queries where necessary and liaising with their team, PSS Group Leader, and with personnel from other teams to problem solve these queries if needed.
• To address group local audit findings in conjunction with the PSS Group Leader.
• To GMP review analytical data.

Qualifications

Education /

Qualifications

• A degree in Microbiology or a related discipline is required.

Experience / Skills

•  At least 3 years’ experience in a pharmaceutical industry GMP laboratory
• Strong familiarity with GMP and Microbiology.
• Good understanding of Chemistry is advantageous.
• Passionate about quality and customer service.
• Excellent communication skills (internally and externally) and understanding of appropriate client interactions.
• Willing to operate in a flexible manner and be able to switch priorities at short notice.
• Good team player, organised, accurate, have strong documentation skills.

Additional Information

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 works with the biggest companies in the world to ensure the products they supply are safe, their ingredients are authentic and labelling is accurate. Eurofins believes it is a global leader in food, environmental, pharmaceutical and cosmetics products testing and in agroscience CRO services. It is also one of the global independent market leaders in certain testing and laboratory services for genomics, discovery pharmacology, forensics, CDMO, advanced material sciences and in the support of clinical studies.

In over just 30 years, Eurofins has grown from one laboratory in Nantes, France to over 61,000 staff across a network of more than 1000 independent companies in over 61 countries and operating more than 900 laboratories. 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 emerging players in specialised clinical diagnostics testing.

In 2022, Eurofins generated total revenues of EUR € 6.7 billion, and has been among the best performing stocks in Europe over the past 20 years.