**Opportunity for a Senior Microbiology Analyst in our client site in Shanbally Co Cork**

The purpose of this job is to perform scientific procedures and produce accurate results within the required time frame under the customer quality system, using customer company procedures, and while adhering to Eurofins general policies and standards.

What can Eurofins offer you as an employee of ours?

• Developmental opportunities and career progression
• The opportunity to work with our client - a world -leading pharmaceutical and biotechnology company
• Location is easily accessible
• Private Medical Insurance
• Income protection and life assurance
• Annual discretionary bonus
• Free parking onsite
• Full use of the canteen facilities on the client site
• Additional annual leave days with continued service
• The opportunity to work on therapeutic drugs helping to save lives across the world

Consider joining Eurofins, where people are the most important element in our business. Eurofins is a leading contract research organisation providing testing and research services in the pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical sciences to clients worldwide.

This position is to join our innovative Professional Scientific Services (PSS) programme as an employee of Eurofins. The programme places full-time analysts, technicians, scientists and technical support personnel managed by Eurofins directly at the client facility to provide long term staffing needs while maintaining the same services, expertise and cGMP compliance available at the Eurofins facility. This award-winning programme offers excellent career opportunities for people who have a proven track recording in combining excellent technical ability with first class interpersonal and communication skills

We are hiring an experienced Microbiology Analyst to support a QC Micro Tech group at a pharmaceutical manufacturing site with project work. The role will include:

• Compliance projects
• OPEX projects
• Method development & method transfers
• Validations, Troubleshooting and critiquing of methods/procedures
• Method improvements for Endotoxin, Bioburden and Microbial Growth Promotion methods.

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  A degree or diploma in microbiology / chemistry or a related subject.

Experience / Skills

• At least 2 years' experience in a pharmaceutical industry GMP laboratory
• Good team player, organised, accurate, have strong documentation skills
• Flexible, adaptable to changing priorities
• Passionate about quality and customer service.
• Good communication skills both internally and externally.
• Candidate should have good relevant experience and be able to handle senior microbiologist tasks.
• Candidates should have a positive/ can do attitude, with the ability to work in a dynamic workplace with good motivation and drive to hit project timelines.

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 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 50,000 staff across a network of more than 900 independent companies in over 50 countries and operating more than 800 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 2021, Eurofins generated total revenues of EUR € 6.76 billion, and has been among the best performing stocks in Europe over the past 20 years.