Laboratory Support Technician

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.

Eurofins PSS Insourcing Solutions® is a global, award-winning insourcing solution. We place our skilled team directly at the client site, managing operations seamlessly and eliminating complexities. We ensure a strategic, long-term service commitment that delivers value directly at the client’ site, utilising their facilities, equipment, and methodologies, while maintaining the same service, expertise, and cGMP compliance available at the Eurofins facility. If you're an employee seeking an exceptional career journey, Eurofins PSS Insourcing Solutions® is your gateway to a future where innovation, collaboration, and success converge. Join us in a world where excellence knows no boundaries!

We’re proud to be an armed forces-friendly place to work and welcome applications from reservists, armed forces veterans (including the wounded, injured and sick), as well as cadet instructors, and military spouses and partners.

If you want to continue to help make our world a safer and healthier place, then apply for the role below and become a part of the extraordinary Eurofins network

Job Description

Unfortunately, we are unable to offer visa sponsorship for this role.

This is a full time, permanent position. Working a 39 hour week, Monday – Friday 09:00 – 17:00.

As a Laboratory Support Technician will serve as a member of the JSC group within the client environment to support their technical and analytical tasks, to work to the highest standards in terms of quality and professionalism.

Job Responsibilities that you be covering:

• Coordinate end‑to‑end sample management, including logging samples into SAP, aliquoting and labelling vials, retrieving samples from storage, and overseeing internal and external sample shipments.
• Manage freezer operations, including alarm monitoring, maintaining freezer logbooks, completing preventative maintenance, and ensuring audit readiness at all times.
• Support laboratory workflow through pipette coordination, sample movement within the central lab, and prompt response to ad‑hoc sample pull requests or information queries.
• Maintain documentation and data integrity, ensuring accurate entry of external results into LIMS, updating job cards, generating environmental and water analysis reports, and producing business or quality‑related metrics.
• Act as a key liaison with internal and external stakeholders, including Maintenance teams for calibrations and sample movements, alarm responders during JSC activities, and client personnel for documentation and compliance matters.
• Oversee inventory and operational compliance, including reference material inventory management, coordination of SAP work orders, and ensuring all systems and processes meet quality and audit expectations.

Qualifications

What skills, qualifications and experiences you will hold as an Laboratory Support Technician:

• A third‑level qualification in a scientific discipline, demonstrating strong foundational knowledge relevant to laboratory and analytical operations.
• Experience working to GMP standards within a laboratory environment, ensuring adherence to quality, safety, and compliance requirements.
• Strong teamwork skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively across laboratory, operational, and client‑facing functions.
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written, enabling clear interaction with internal colleagues and external partners.
• High level of accuracy and attention to detail, ensuring reliable sample handling, documentation, and data integrity.
• Strong organisational and time‑management skills, with the ability to manage multiple tasks, maintain an orderly workspace, and meet operational deadlines.

Additional Information

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:

• We offer exceptional opportunities for career growth, within a friendly and supportive team. As well as a competitive salary, pension and associated benefits you will enjoy an unrivalled working environment, including an active social calendar and subsidised canteen, all while working in a start of the art client facility- a leading biotechnology company
• Fantastic developmental opportunities and career progression pathways such as leadership, training, compliance and Subject Media Expert.
• Full Benefits Package including:-
  • Pension
  • Private Medical Insurance
  • Income protection and life assurance
  • Annual discretionary bonus
  • Birthday Holiday entitlement
• Exciting Eurofins Incentives: Employee Activity Committee (EAC), Equality Driving Excellence (EDE), significant Reward and Recognition programme Opportunity to benefit from Eurofins Operational Development training platform, plus potential support for part-time training (relevant to the position)
• Full use of the canteen facilities and barista on the client site
• Free parking onsite and onsite electric charging
• Additional annual leave days with continued service
• The opportunity to work on life saving products

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.

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.

For more information about Eurofins PSS® please visit our website and watch a message below from our Global Head, Beth Di Paolo.