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 37 hour week, flexibly between 07:00 - 19:00 Monday - Friday.

The purpose of this job within DPD Particle and Powder Characterisation is to perform analysis and produce data to support powder and particle characterisation activities.

The description of activities contained in this job description are an overview of the description of activities related to particular service areas and may vary from time to time. It may be necessary to apply skills and expertise described in this job description to other functional areas within the client business depending on business needs.

Job Responsibilities

To perform hands-on analysis of API samples for key physical properties such as particle size, surface area, surface energy, wettability, particle shape, microscopy, using techniques such as, laser diffraction particle size analysis, static and dynamic image analysis, surface area by BET, Inverse Gas Chromatography testing.

To understand and relate the impact of measured and computationally determined material properties on stability, formulation manufacturability and final formulation performance in collaboration with formulation and material scientists.

Perform data analysis and deliver clear conclusions to provide direction for future project work.

Manage large data sets into a precise format and apply data analysis tools to support visualization and trending of data (e.g. multi-variate analysis approaches, data visualisation, Python coding).

Use computational tools to predict particle properties and correlations among them

Communicate effectively to project teams and present data at team meetings.

Maintain high quality documentation of all activities in electronic notebooks and reports as required.

Plan and review work schedules to meet deadlines, communicate results clearly.

Work as part of a team or independently as required.

Qualifications

Essential

• Degree in Chemistry, Pharmacy or Pharmaceutical Science or similar.
• A sound fundamental knowledge of Chemistry, Pharmaceutical.
• The candidate should demonstrate knowledge on data visualisation for the analysis of big datasets.
• A good understanding and experience with traditional Particle and Powder characterisation techniques used to aid particle and formulation design (e.g. optical microscopy, laser diffraction particle size analysis, scanning electron microscopy, specific surface Area analysis, surface energy analysis, contact angle, image analysis etc.)
• Good understanding of requirements for working in a GLP or GMP environment.

Beneficial

• Experience with surface properties characterisation including surface area, surface energy and wettability
• Experience with design, use and implementation of modelling pharmaceutical processes.
• Exposure to the use of statistical analysis software packages, for example Minitab, JMP or Design-Expert.

Preferred knowledge in programming languages (i.e. Python and JavaScript), machine learning and the pillars of data science.

Experience in R, Python, programming in R (shiny), Spotfire, database design and development

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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