Group Waters Quality Manager

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.

The purpose of this role to have responsibility for adherence to the quality systems and the requirement of all accreditation statuses for the relevant laboratories. To inspire and drive a culture of outstanding quality to exceed the requirements of our customers and embrace our core organisational values. 

Please note this is a full time home based role working Monday to Friday 09:00 - 17:00. 

Main duties to include:

• Responsible for the maintenance of UKAS accreditation (and other accreditations where appropriate) in Eurofins UK Laboratories. Ensure that the requirements of UKAS, business and customers are met within the scope of the accredited laboratory. 
• Act as a key contact for UKAS on all matters of accreditation relating to water testing. 
• To attend external audits by UKAS, other regulatory bodies and customers and to ensure that corrective actions are completed and submitted to the relevant body within the timescale required.
• Lead internal auditing to ensure it is carried out effectively and in accordance with audit plans
• Report to the Director of Technical and Quality, without delay, any issues affecting Quality in the laboratory. 
• Stay alert and aware of the commercial activities’ need for accredited tests in order to ensure that the laboratory teams deploy the appropriate accredited tests in a timely manner. 
• Ensure that the Quality procedures and documents, including laboratory methods are maintained up to date, reflect current practice and group objectives. Amendment and re-issue of all documentation as necessary. 
• Work closely with the Group Technical Manager to ensure that written procedures are up to date and easily understood by laboratory staff. 
• Responsible for the annual Quality Management Reviews in the relevant sections. 
• Train laboratory staff in ISO: 17025, auditing, non-conforming work investigations and root cause analysis, where applicable. 
• Assist the Director of Technical and Quality in developing and driving Quality improvement plans across laboratories to ensure consistent approach and best practice. 
• Assess data and trends as required to instigate improvements through development of Quality KPI dashboards . 
• Delivery of continuous improvement in laboratory processes, customer service, Quality, health and safety, with a key focus on efficiency, cost and timeliness. 
• Assess key operational risks and take action to mitigate them. 
• Build relationships with laboratory staff; engage them in the purpose, their responsibilities and use of the Quality system; consult and communicate change to staff. 
• Attendance at Monthly Quality KPI Meetings for each site. Authorisation of external proficiency testing scheme programmes.. 
• Development of internal Quality Control schemes to meet the needs of the business. 
• Any other duties necessary to ensure the quality of results and service to customers as designated by the Director of Technical and Quality
• Management of the local Quality teams, ensuring training and development plans are in place and that Quality regimes are adhered to at local sites. 
• Work closely with the Group Quality Managers of other departments to ensure that all aspects of the Quality system are maintained. 
• Act as deputy to the Director of Technical and Quality on all matters. 

• Degree in Chemistry /Microbiology or related discipline and relevant experience of Quality Management systems. 
• Excellent working knowledge of Microbiology / Chemistry  laboratories accredited to ISO: 17025, RSA where applicable. 
• Have worked in a laboratory for at least 2 years and in a Quality role for a minimum of 3 years. 
• Experience of working in a UKAS accredited laboratory.
• Good IT skills, Word, Excel, LIMS & pivot tables. 
• Excellent analytical skills. 
• Good auditing skills.
• Must have a ‘can do’ attitude and be able to deliver change through people management skills.

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:

• 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.
 
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 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/