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.
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.

Unfortunately, we are unable to offer visa sponsorship for this role.
This is a permanent full time position, working a flexible 35 hour week, Monday to Friday 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.
Job Responsibilities:

• Competent 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.
• Competent experience constructing clinical trial kits in accordance with strict protocols to maintain blinding integrity.
• Able to independently 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.
• Competent understanding in following the clients GMP related quality standards of relevant packaging, label authoring, printing, inspecting and logistics environments.
• Fluent understanding in the internal and external regulatory environment pertinent to clinical trials and pharmaceutical development and support internal audits and regulatory inspections.
• Liaise with Quality groups to ensure appropriate approvals and chain of custody.
• To ensure that the client's requirements are fully met or exceeded and in so doing will be flexible to work in any area of the business as is required.
• Readily identify any opportunities for improvement of quality and service and work with the team to implement continuous improvement.
• Document data as dictated by current Client policies and procedures.
• To train as required, other members of staff in documentation practices in which the Technician is competent.
• To revise SOPs as required by the Lead Scientist or Client contact.
• To provide cover for other members of staff as required and for taking part in the customer's weekend rota and/or overtime schedule.
• To update any relevant documentation when requested.

Qualifications

• Previous experience of working in a Packaging Technician role within a regulated pharmaceutical environment.
• Competent experience of constructing clinical trial kits and maintaining blinding integrity.
• Fluent understanding of regulatory processes associated with conducting clinical trials.
• Experienced working in line with GMP with a competent understanding of the processes and documentation that maintain the license to operate.
• Ability to quickly learn new processes.
• Competently navigate and work using fully electronic media, including MS Office and SAP.
• Good communication skills, both written and verbally clearly presents information to build understanding which helps to form strong working relationships with colleagues.
• Thorough attention to detail and time management skills.
• Willing to operate in a flexible manner and able to reuse both internal and external experiences and incorporate them into relevant improvements.
• Ability to switch priorities at short notice is desired.
• Good team player, organised, accurate, have strong documentation 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
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/