Job Description

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.

Eurofins Professional Scientific Services (PSS) is part of the Global Eurofins Business with over 61,000 employees. Eurofins PSS recruits full time scientists on permanent positions at client sites working collaboratively side by side with clients at their site on their projects and helping to develop and bring new medicines to patients to help improve and save lives.



This is a fulltime, permanent position working a 35 hour week flexibly Monday - Friday between 07:00 - 19:00

This scope of work involves supporting the Clinical Supplies Operation (CSO) Packaging team. The individual executing this scope of work will work in close collaboration with the following: Quality and EHS as required.

• Foundational experience of start-up, operate and close down primary, secondary and clinical kits production operations in accordance with appropriate SOPs.
• Collaborating with client contacts and working with support and to ensure room and equipment cleanliness, material receipt and control, label and product accountability confirmation, automation set-up and correct functioning, conduct in-process tests and post-operation equipment strip down and clean.
• Foundational experience constructing clinical trial kits in accordance with strict protocols to maintain blinding integrity.
• Learn to control and monitor production processes and equipment; resolve problems or correct abnormal conditions, conduct basic troubleshooting and escalate problems appropriately.
• Participate in equipment validation and system user acceptance testing as required.
• Complete electronic batch documentation, equipment log books and other documentation relevant to the production process for all stages of production for both product and labels.
• Develop and apply a working knowledge of relevant electronic system operations, including SAP, temperature monitoring and product stability information systems.
• Build understanding and follow the clients GMP related quality standards of relevant packaging, label authoring, printing, inspecting and logistics environments.
• Become familiar with understanding the internal and external regulatory environment pertinent to clinical trials and pharmaceutical development and support internal audits and regulatory inspections.
• To become fully familiar with and keep up to date with any client based processes and regulatory changes, ensuring their training is complete and adjusting their work as required with approval from the Lead Scientist or client.

Qualifications

• Previous experience of working in a Packaging Technician role within a regulated pharmaceutical environment.
• Up to 2 years\' relevant experience in a packaging pharmaceutical experience.
• Foundational experience of constructing clinical trial kits and maintaining blinding integrity.
• Good foundational understanding of regulatory processes associated with conducting clinical trials.
• Foundational understanding working in line with GMP supporting the processes and documentation that maintain the license to operate.
• Ability to quickly learn new processes.
• Ability to work using fully electronic media, including MS Office and SAP.
• Ability to communicate clearly, both written and verbally and to form strong working relationships with colleagues.
• Good attention to detail and time management skills.
• Good communication skills both internally and externally and avoids making mistakes that will hinder the understanding of written and verbal exchanges.
• Passionate about quality and customer service.

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:

• Reward & Recognition
• 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 to 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.

Application Tips

It\'s really helpful for our Recruitment Team if you include a full up to date CV, your current location and a contact number so we can talk to you about our exciting opportunities. Please also detail your current Right to Work status in the UK.

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.

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!

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