Job Description
Unfortunately, we are unable to offer visa sponsorship for this role.
Please note this is a full time position working 37.5 hours per week, Monday to Friday, 7.5 hours per day flexibly between 08:00 - 20:00.
The purpose of this post is to work within a fast-paced Food Testing laboratory, the purpose of this role is to maintain a clean hygienic working environment within the Ipswich Laboratory, continuous stock control for all working stations for the laboratory to aid with smooth sample processing.
Job Responsibilities:
* Assist the laboratory in stocking up individual workstations to assist in achieving the optimum production from the laboratory.
* Work aseptically and wear appropriate PPE when in the laboratory.
* Prepare supplement broths, medias and dry pre-poured media ready for use in the laboratory.
* Organisation of stock rooms and help maintain stock rotation.
* Have knowledge of disinfectants and make up daily for in laboratory use.
* Removal of waste from the laboratory throughout the day and maintenance of the hygiene of the internal bins and waste system.
* To be familiar with relevant health and safety legislation and to ensure that all relevant, hazard signs are used when appropriate.
* To carry out any other reasonable tasks as designated by your line manager.
* Help manage deliveries to the business to ensure all incoming goods and consumable items are dealt with promptly
Qualifications
* 5 or more GCSE’s
* Experience in working in part of a team
* Good organisation and time management
* Good verbal and written communication skills
* Ability to self-motivate
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:
* Enhanced Annual Leave Entitlement
* Annual Leave Sellback Scheme
* Additional Annual Leave at Employees set service dates
* Free Parking
* Company Pension Plan
* Life Assurance Scheme (4 times annual salary)
* Healthcare Cash Plan (6+ months service)
* Enhanced Maternity, Adoption and Paternity Schemes
* Employee Assistance Programme – 24/7 confidential
* Health and Wellbeing Programmes
* Worldwide career opportunities
* We also have in place rewards recognising the great work our 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 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 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/