Microbiology Supervisor I
Eurofins Eaton Analytical, LLC

Job Info

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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.

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.

Job Description

The Supervisor I provides technical and operational support to a specific laboratory area while participating in daily sample production. Responsibilities include but are not limited to scheduling and prioritizing work tasks, training, problem solving, implementing new procedures and methods, analyzing samples, reviewing and validating data and completing reports.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Coordinates work projects with project managers to appropriately prioritize laboratory workload to meet client requirements.
• Manages in-house projects for an assigned department to ensure on-time delivery and turnaround times requirements are met.
• Release samples to laboratory personnel,communicates due dates and updates turnaround times as needed
• Supervises Analysts to maximize productivity and ensure appropriate testing procedures, in compliance with quality assurance and standard operating procedure requirements.
• Manages direct reports
• Runs daily operation of the Microbiology department, including scheduling as needed
• Manages preventative maintenance on instrumentation
• Communicates department issues and provides status reports to next level of Lab Management and Project Managers
• Assists Project Managers with any questions they might have
• Assist Department Manager to evaluate individual performance in yearly performance review as well as providing feedback on an on-going basis to lab personnel.
• Responsible to ensure proper training of all new analysts and developstaff on skills, equipment and procedures.
• Executes cross-training program created by manager
• Responsible for data validation and consumable inventory
• Prepares department reports as assigned by laboratory management.
• Tracks department productivity.
• May perform department safety inspections to maintain EH&S requirements.
• Provides input on department staffing levels
• May have input into hiring and firing decisions
• May stock and order supplies as needed.
• May dispose of samples according to EH&S requirements.
• May clean work area(s) to maintain a safe working environment.
• May prepares and analyzes samples for analysis based on method requirements.
• May reviewdata produced in assigned department and authorizes its release.
• May operateand maintainsophisticated analysis instrumentation requiring advanced and specialized knowledge.
• Creates and updates department standard operating procedures
• Assists other laboratory departments as needed.

Qualifications

Basic Minimum Qualifications:

• BS or BA in Microbiology, Biology, Chemistryor closely related field
  • Minimum of 4 credit hours in Microbiology
• 1 year ofbench experience with waterand/or milkmicrobiology.
• At least 30 days of on-the-job training in drinking water microbiology under an experienced analyst
• Understanding of basic laboratory practices related to Microbiology or related fields, including safety and aseptic techniques
• Authorization to work in the United Stateswithout restriction or sponsorship

Ideal Candidates will have:

• 3+ years of experience in a lab setting, preferably in Microbiology
• Prior experience with with Microbiology testing for drinking water
• Previous supervisory experience

Additional Information

Salary range: $72,000-92,000/year

Please note - Eurofins Environment Testing (USA) provides a compensation range for informational purposes, the actual base salary may vary based upon, but not limited to, relevant experience and skill set, base salary of internal peers, business sector, and geographic location.

As a Eurofins employee, you will become part of a company that has received national recognition as a great place to work. We offer excellent full-time benefits including comprehensive medical coverage, life and disability insurance, 401(k) with company match, paid holidays, paid time off, and dental and vision options.

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 Eurofins Scientific 2/2 March 2023 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 61,000 staff across a decentralized and entrepreneurial network of ca. 900 laboratories in 61 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 2022, Eurofins generated total revenues of EUR 6.7 billion, and has been among the best performing stocks in Europe over the past 20 years.

Eurofins is aM/F, Disabled, and Veteran Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer.

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