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
Unfortunately, we are unable to offer visa sponsorship for this role.
This is a permanent full time position, working a 37.5 hour week,Monday to Friday.
We are currently recruiting for enthusiastic and innovative Characterisation Chemist. This is a new and exciting opportunity based at our client’s facility, a world class company that develops and produces consumer products based in Liverpool. We have an opportunity for a scientist contributing to the development of next generation, renewable, formulation ingredients for personal care products.
In addition, the candidate will also have strong logistic and technical skills as well as resourceful in problem solving and concern for safety associated with laboratory activities. It is expected the ideal candidate will work in a flexible manner exhibiting high energy, self-motivation and resourcefulness. Additionally, will be able to think logically and have the ability to effectively collaborate with and communicate scientific ideas readily.
Job Responsibilities:
* Use a broad range of analytical techniques including material characterisation, NMR, HPLC, GC, MS, IR, UV Spectroscopy and preferably Rheology to support characterisation steps.
* Plan, design, and safely progress physical and chemical analysis of formulations adhering to all safety measures.
* Generate complete characterisation data for materials made, including performance testing in relevant formulations.
* Maintain accurate recordings of experimental data and analyse results.
* Deliver process improvement.
Qualifications
* A Degree or above in a relevant scientific discipline.
* Relevant characterisation experience with sound fundamental knowledge and practical application in the area of home and health care products.
* Excellent verbal and written skills, both internally and externally.
* Ability to build strong interpersonal relationships with colleagues driving collaboration.
* Passionate about quality and customer service is 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:
* Reward and Recognition
* Health Cash Plan
* 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.
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/
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