Sample Reception and Logistics Technician

Description du poste:

Company 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:

Please note this is a 4 week contract, to start as soon as possible.
The purpose of this role is to process customer samples while maintaining consistent customer service, efficiency, quality and accuracy standards as required by the company. Within this role the department team lead will provide supervision on daily responsibilities and appropriate training will be provided. If the candidate performs to expectations in the temporary role, there are opportunities for this to become a permanent role.
Working hours are Monday to Friday 09:00 - 17:00.
No experience required, this role will involve some manual handling.
* Accurately logging food samples into the lab IT system in a timely manner.
* Taking in of customer samples, sorting and labelling them while ensuring that the correct information is recorded onto the lab IT system for samples that are to be analysed.
* Sub-contracting food samples as required, sorting, labelling, tracking of samples and results.
* Undertaking general administration duties including photocopying, typing, filing etc. as required.
* Sample disposal and general laboratory cleaning and maintenance.
* Logistics of samples between laboratory departments, cooled storage, and waste.
* Be flexible to work in any area of the business as is required.
* Preparing sample kits as requested and maintaining good communication as well as traceability at all times.

Qualifications:

* Ability to lift and carry heavy loads.
* Computer literate.
* Excellent standard of written and spoken English and numeracy skills.
* Hard working self-motivated and professional team player.
* Ability to work well under pressure.
* Excellent attention to detail.
* Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Additional Information:

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:
* Enhanced Annual Leave Entitlement
* Company Pension Plan
* Life Assurance Scheme (4 times annual salary)
* Enhanced Maternity, Adoption and Paternity Schemes
* Employee Assistance Programme - 24/7 confidential
* Health Cash Plan
* 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 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 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.
Find out more in our career page: https://careers.eurofins.com