Eurofins

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 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 is the global leader in food, environment, pharmaceutical and cosmetic product testing and in agroscience Contract Research Organization services. Eurofins is one of the market leaders in certain testing and laboratory services for genomics, discovery pharmacology, forensics, advanced material sciences and in the support of clinical studies, as well as having an emerging global presence in Contract Development and Manufacturing Organizations. The Group also has a rapidly developing presence in highly specialized and molecular clinical diagnostic testing and in-vitro diagnostic products.

Job Description

Job Summary:

Eurofins BioPharma Testing (BPT) has recently started up the Calibrations, Certification and Metrology business unit. This business unit has a team in New Jersey and St Louis and is building teams in San Diego and San Jose. Each team is based at an existing Eurofins BPT site. The Eurofins Calibration, Certification and Metrology business is seeking a Regional Director for the west coast. The Regional Director has responsibility for continuing to build the teams in both San Diego and San Jose, completing the setup of the laboratories, including ensuring that the laboratories can be brought into ISO 17025 compliance and then leading the growth of the teams.

Essential Duties/Responsibilities:

• Continues to build the teams in both the San Diego and San Jose labs by interviewing and hiring appropriate personnel. Provides operational leadership and support to both new and existing staff through effective planning, execution, and resource management.
• Motivates staff to perform at high levels, and ensures laboratory profitability
• through engaged employees, satisfied clients, efficient processes that
• are quality driven, and P&L Management.
• Ensures the implementation of the laboratory Quality Management System
• and its compliance with ISO/IEC 17025 in conjunction with the Quality Team.
• Develops and maintains production schedules, ensuring on-time completion
• and delivery of Final Reports and Data Packages.
• Provides and assists customers with understanding regulatory guidelines, test
• results, technical support, and the appropriateness of specific tests, including
• advantages and limitations of test procedures.
• Accomplishes productivity through effective communication of company
• goals/objectives and supports staff in achieving such expectations by
• appraising performance, and giving continuous feedback.
• Plans and oversees development of new laboratory technologies and test
• methods.
• Ensures continuous development and training of staff.
• Ensures that the facility, instrumentation, and equipment are well maintained
• and in good working order.
• Handles client and employee requests and concerns appropriate and in a
• timely manner.
• Ensures that analytical data, laboratory reports, quality documents, and data packages are approved by qualified personnel.
• Supports and participates in customer and regulatory audits.

Qualifications

Experience:

• Minimum of 7 years of experience in a calibration, metrology or testing laboratory specializing with chromatography analysis, including at least 5 years in a management role.
• Hands-on experience working with laboratory instrumentation calibration and/or metrology, particularly with chromatography instrumentation.
• Thorough knowledge of quality systems, particularly ISO 17025.
• Experience working with Laboratory Information Management Systems (LIMS).
• Internal contact includes daily contact with all personnel and regular contact with management.
• External contact may require infrequent contact with Clients.
• External contact with vendors may be required.

Education:

• Bachelor's degree in applied sciences or a related field.

Competencies:

• Detailed understanding of calibration and metrology of laboratory testing instrumentation, particularly of chromatography systems, balances, temperature- controlled systems, and pipettes.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Excellent interpersonal and organizational skills.
• Responsive problem solver and action-oriented.

Additional Information

The expected base salary range for this position is $150,000 - $170,000. However, if you are outside of this range you are still encouraged to apply!

Disclaimer:

This position description is written as a guideline to inform employees of what is generally expected of them at each job level. The description is not intended to be all encompassing or limiting in any manner; rather, it is hoped it will add understanding and better reflect the work performed at all levels of employment. Duties and responsibilities other than those listed may be included as needed within the work group or the company as a whole.

The above information may not be used or duplicated by others without written consent.

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.

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/

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 of companies is the global leader in food, environment, pharmaceutical and cosmetic product testing and in discovery pharmacology, forensics, advanced material sciences and agroscience contract research services. It is one of the market leaders in certain testing and laboratory services for genomics, discovery pharmacology, forensics, advanced material sciences and in the support of clinical studies, as well as having an emerging global presence in Contract Development and Manufacturing Organizations. It also has a rapidly developing presence in highly specialized and molecular clinical diagnostic testing and in-vitro diagnostic products.

In over 35 years, Eurofins has grown from one laboratory in Nantes, France to 63,000 staff across a decentralized and entrepreneurial network of ca. 950 laboratories in 60 countries. Eurofins companies offer a portfolio of over 200,000 analytical methods to evaluate the safety, identity, composition, authenticity, origin, traceability, and purity of biological substances and products.

In 2024, Eurofins generated total revenues of EUR 6.95 billion ($7.52 billion), and has been amount the best performing stocks in Europe over the past 20 years.