Laboratory Assistant - Molecular Cell Biology

Consider joining Eurofins where people are the most important element in our business. Eurofins Biopharma Product Testing is a leading contract lab that provides testing and research services in the environmental, pharmaceutical, and biopharmaceutical sciences to clients worldwide.

What can Eurofins offer you?

• At Eurofins we offer careers not just jobs.
• Developmental opportunities and career progression
• Private Medical Insurance when with the company for 2 years for all roles
• Income protection and life assurance
• Free parking onsite
• Additional annual leave days with continued service
• The opportunity to work on life saving products
• Work-life balance
• Sports and Social events

We are actively seeking a Laboratory Assistant to join our Molecular Cell Biology team in Dungarvan, Co Waterford the role will support appropriate site operations to enable efficient and right first processing of customer samples throughout the relevant laboratory.

• General housekeeping activities in assigned department/ area, including keeping area clean and tidy and cleaning laboratory equipment etc. as required (e.g. refrigerators, incubators, stability chambers).
• Provision of laboratory/ area support to the team, through stock management, reagent preparation, equipment calibration and checks.
• Performing waste disposal duties as necessary.
• Completion of all documentation to required standard (ALCOA+).
• Order and maintain inventory of laboratory supplies, including PPE, consumables, and reagents, to support routine laboratory activities
• Upkeep of training records and completion of all EtQ training on time.
• Adhering to all company standards in the area of safety, housekeeping and quality, notifying management of any discrepancies.
• Flexibility ensuring that customers’ requirements are fully met and in so doing will be flexible to work in any area of the business as is required.
• To participate in the company On-Call / Call out rota as required.
• Flexibility may be required depending on the needs of the laboratory, this can include a change in working days and/or change in hours.

Education / Qualifications

Leaving Cert qualification

Experience / Skills

A full drivers license is a requirement for the role

GMP experience/knowledge is preferred but not essential

Knowledge/experience with aseptic techniques

Good team player

Good communication skills both internally and externally

Competent in the use of a PC such as Word, Excel, Outlook.

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 works with the biggest companies in the world to ensure the products they supply are safe, their ingredients are authentic and labelling is accurate.Eurofins believes it is a global leader in food, environmental, pharmaceutical and cosmetics products testing and in agroscience CRO services. It is also one of the global independent market leaders in certain testing and laboratory services for genomics, discovery pharmacology, forensics, CDMO, advanced material sciences and in the support of clinical studies.

In over just 30 years, Eurofins has grown from one laboratory in Nantes, France to over 61,000 staff across a network of more than 1000 independent companies in over 61 countries and operating more than 900 laboratories. Eurofins offers a portfolio of over 200,000 analytical methods to evaluate the safety, identity, composition, authenticity, origin, traceability and purity of biological substances and products, as well as providing innovative clinical diagnostic testing services, as one of the leading global emerging players in specialised clinical diagnostics testing.