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.
The Eurofins network 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 its companies around the world.
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
The purpose of this role is to be responsible for managing and developing the quality system and ensuring compliance with INAB, ISO 17025, regulatory and Eurofins quality systems across all aspects of laboratory activities.
To provide leadership, training, supervision and support to laboratory departments in achieving effective implementation of Quality System requirements. To proactively assist management with technical and operational development to ensure both business objectives and customer requirements are consistently delivered.
Please note this is a full time role working 39 hours a week, Monday to Friday 09:00 till 17:30.
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Day to day management, development and maintenance of the Quality Management System including Quality Manual and all related and supporting documents ensuring a compliant and fit for purpose system is in operation across all areas.
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Supporting role in developing company policies to meet accreditation, Eurofins and customer requirements.
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Actively support process improvement, streamlining, and digitalisation initiatives at Eurofins Food Testing Ireland.
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Ensure accreditation is maintained and act as liaison with regulatory bodies including INAB.
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Develop and nurture a strong quality ethos across all areas of the business ensuring a “right first time” approach.
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Manage requests and communication regarding external and customer audits.
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Managing the internal audit schedule including test method witness audits. Undertaking internal audits and proactively coordinating completion of any corrective and preventive actions including undertaking technical investigations and ‘root cause’ analysis in the event of any failure.
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Managing the Document Control system, ensuring procedures are regularly reviewed & aligned across departments.
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Manage Non-Conforming Work Log and ensure actions are implemented to schedule and effective in ensuring non recurrence of issues.
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Supporting the individual departments with co-ordination of submissions for Extension to Scope.
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Coordinating the Equipment Calibration schedules liaising with the individual departments and external suppliers. Assist with performance of internal calibration checks.
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Coordinating participation in External Proficiency schemes, to ensure that the scope of accreditation is effectively covered across all testing disciplines.
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Proactively monitoring and reviewing overall performance of both internal quality control systems and External PT scheme across the departments and along with senior staff, initiate and support investigations into failures, trend and bias to establish root cause and the implementation of effective corrective and preventive actions.
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Maintain reference documents, legislation and reference methods as applicable to accredited activities.
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Co-ordinate and prepare submissions for monthly Quality Meetings and Annual Management Review, ensuring that detailed reports, minutes and action plans are documented and effectively managed and progressed.
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Assist with subcontractor and supplier management.
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Ensure quality processes and regulatory sample requirements are up to date and adhered to.
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Report non-conformances and escalate compliance deviations.
Qualifications
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Degree level qualification or equivalent in Chemistry, Food Science or other relevant subject.
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Be working towards/have full membership of a relevant professional body.
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Trained Auditor with relevant practical experience
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Experience of Quality Management Systems operating to ISO 17025.
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Practical analytical chemistry experience ideally in a high volume contract laboratory or food industry is preferable.
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Experience of working with ISO 17025 either in a laboratory or QA role.
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Good working knowledge of contract testing laboratory activities as relevant to the food, dairy, water and environmental sectors
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Thorough understanding of quality system and accreditation requirements with a proven ability to apply technical knowledge.
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Strong technical, troubleshooting, report writing and statistical skills would be an advantage
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Highly motivated, professional and enthusiastic individual who can work well within a busy multi-disciplinary technical environment as well as under their own initiative.
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Ability to work well under pressure.
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Excellent attention to detail.
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Ability to multi-task, prioritize, organise and co-ordinate both your own workload.
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Skills to influence others to achieve common goals for the benefit of our customers.
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Confident approach with strong interpersonal and communication skills.
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Good communication skills both internally and externally.
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Ability to understand customers’ requirements and to be able to devise and articulate the most appropriate solution.
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Ability to form strong working relationships with colleagues, regulators and customers.
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:
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Additional Annual Leave at Employees set service dates
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Company Pension Plan
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Life Assurance Scheme (4 times annual salary)
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Healthcare Cash Plan (6+ months service)
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Enhanced Maternity, Adoption and Paternity Schemes
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Employee Assistance Programme – 24/7 confidential
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Health and Wellbeing Programmes
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Free parking
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Worldwide career opportunities
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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.
