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SalaryEurofins 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 62,000 staff across a network of more than 1000 independent companies in over 62 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. In 2022, Eurofins generated total revenues of EUR € 6.515 billion, and has been among the best performing stocks in Europe over the past 20 years.
Eurofins Environment Testing Australia New Zealand is an Environmental testing network of fully accredited laboratories. With a staff of over 200 our laboratories are located in Sydney, Melbourne, Perth, Brisbane, Auckland and Christchurch, with Client Service Offices located in Adelaide, Darwin, Newcastle and Wollongong. We also operate field sampling services out of Melbourne and Sydney. We specialise in all areas of Environmental analysis, including Contaminated Soil, Sludge, Sediments, Leachate, Soil Vapour, Trade Waste Effluents, Sewage Effluents, Stack Emissions, Work Place Air, Ambient Air, Dust, Drinking Water, Surface Water run off, River & Stream Monitoring, Seawater, and Groundwater.
Job Description
The Senior Microbiologist is responsible for supporting all activities relating to the new start-up microbiology lab and customer service center based out of Australia and New Zealand. The role will work closely with other Eurofins entities within the Environment division, in particular the Environmental Sales and BD teams across Australia and New Zealand.
Responsibilities will include but are not limited to:
- Performing routine as well as non-routine analysis of microbiological samples.
- Acting as an OHS representative, ensuring a safe work environment for all staff and participating in Health & Safety committee meetings.
- Ensuring that results due are in on time and if unable to meet the deadline, contacting Analytical Service Manager / Customer.
- Supervising the day to day performance of the laboratory as well as staffing requirements at the laboratory/service center, including overtime, casual requirements and hiring of new staff.
- Acting as team leader discussing work flows, TAT and facilitating issues management and resolution.
- Client liaison / Technical problem solving and implementing new method development and validation for all tests.
- Maintaining and managing accurate and precise documentation, and organising for calibrations of pipettes, balances, timers, thermometers, etc. to be carried out each month
- Directly supervising and monitoring of laboratory technicians including training and signing off on technician training records.
- Tertiary qualifications in Science or equivalent qualification; or equivalent experience.
- At least 3-5 years' experience in NATA accredited commercial laboratory. Experience in PCR/results reading & confirmation. NATA signatory will be added advantage
- Experience in using different equipment/instrumental and sample preparation techniques.
- Technical knowledge in the relevant scientific discipline.
- Good knowledge of standard office applications, especially MS Word and MS Excel.
All candidate CV's and cover letter's will be reviewed, however please note that we are not always able to respond to every expression of interest submitted.
This opportunity is only open to candidates who are eligible to work in Australia/New Zealand, and already have work rights or an appropriate working visa.
