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.
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Job Description
Working hours are Monday - Friday, 9am - 5pm.
The main purpose of this role is to support the Quality Manager for the Cork site in developing the quality system and ensuring compliance with INAB, ISO 17025, regulatory and Eurofins quality systems across all aspects of laboratory activities. You will proactively assist management with technical and operational development to ensure both business objectives and customer requirements are consistently delivered.
Main Duties
- Support the ongoing development of an online electronic quality management system across all Irish sites.
- Build our existing quality processes to make them more intuitive and compliant.
- Create training documents on the use of the electronic quality management system.
- Work on projects to digitize the way in which work is recorded, and to cross-link the controlling systems.
- Frequent progress reporting to project leads.
- To Co-ordinate, maintain document control online and physical documentation filing and storage on site.
- Ensure reporting schedules are adhered to, maintaining due date calendar, notifications, and requirements.
- Co-ordination of submissions as required to ensure all documentation submissions are up to date and on time.
- Responsible for the organisation of filing quality documents.
- Participate in, lead and facilitate external and internal laboratory audits, e.g. INAB, RSA
- Reviewing Non-conformances investigations/closing them out if all action items are adequately completed.
- Support in the developing of company policies to meet accreditation, Eurofins and customer requirements
- Gather pre and post-audit information for external audits and submit data to the accreditation/certification body
- Liaise with third-party suppliers on relevant areas e.g. equipment calibration
- Escalate issues affecting Quality performance
- Collate information and reports and carry out trend analysis for the Annual Management Review meeting
- Ensure that external proficiency scheme samples are tested and reported accurately, including timely investigations into unsatisfactory results, in conjunction with Laboratory Management.
Qualifications
- Proven experience of working with ISO 17025 either in a laboratory or QA role is preferred.
- Educated to degree level in a Life Science subject (chemistry, microbiology, food science, etc.) and/or Quality Assurance.
- Computer literate
- Experience of working in an INAB accredited site.
- Highly motivated, professional and enthusiastic.
- Ability to work well under pressure.
- Excellent attention to detail.
- Excellent organisational skills.
- Strong communication skills both written and verbal.
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
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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/
