Sample Administration Assistant at Eurofins

Dungarvan, The Municipal District of Dungarvan — Lismore, Ireland -

Full Time

Start Date

Immediate

Expiry Date

08 Jun, 26

Salary

0.0

Posted On

10 Mar, 26

Experience

0 year(s) or above

Remote Job

Yes

Telecommute

Yes

Sponsor Visa

Skills

Record Keeping, Data Entry, Sample Reception, Documentation Reconciliation, Integrity Checks, Compliance Checks, Data Interpretation, Client Communication, Laboratory Systems, Filing, Sample Disposal, Training, Equipment Cleaning, Consumables Stocking, Flexibility, On-Call Rota

Industry

Medical and Diagnostic Laboratories

Description

Company Description Consider joining Eurofins where people are the most important element in our business. Eurofins Biopharma Product Testing is a leading contract lab that provides testing and research services in the environmental, pharmaceutical, and biopharmaceutical sciences to clients worldwide. What can Eurofins offer you? At Eurofins we offer careers not just jobs. Developmental opportunities and career progression Private Medical Insurance when with the company for 2 years for all roles Income protection and life assurance Free parking onsite Additional annual leave days with continued service The opportunity to work on life saving products Work-life balance Sports and Social events We are currently recruiting for a full time permanent Sample Administration Assistant within our Sample Admin team in Dungarvan. Job Description The purpose of this role is to receive and verify all customer sample deliveries within the Sample Administration Department, ensuring full reconciliation of accompanying documentation, completion of initial integrity and compliance checks, and accurate progression of samples to the appropriate laboratory in accordance with the company’s established standards for efficiency, quality, and accuracy. Receive and log all incoming customer samples, ensuring deliveries are recorded accurately and promptly within the administration department. Handle temperature monitors on arrival, interpret the data, and communicate data to clients in a timely and accurate manner. Reconcile all accompanying documentation, verifying completeness, accuracy, and compliance with internal and regulatory requirements. Conduct initial quality and integrity checks on samples prior to their entry into the laboratory workflow. Responsible for ensuring samples are stored and brought to the laboratories as quickly as possible. Liaise with clients to inform them of any delivery issues, discrepancies, or concerns identified upon arrival. Ensure accurate data entry into laboratory information systems and administrative records. Responsible for keeping the laboratory area clean and tidy in both ‘seen’ and ‘unseen’ areas. Responsible for administration of documentation with reference to samples i.e. filing. Responsible for disposing of retained samples at regular intervals and completing all relevant documentation in this area. This person will ensure that all documentation is carried out on time, accurately and legibly. They are responsible for keeping their training sheets up to date and initiating training where possible when free from work. Responsible for cleaning laboratory equipment as required e.g. refrigerators, incubators etc. Responsible for providing assistance in laboratories if time allows. Responsibilities may include stocking of areas with consumables. As with all members of staff this person is responsible for ensuring that customers requirements are fully met and in so doing will be flexible to work in any area of the business as is required. To participate in the company On-Call / Call out rota as required. Provide training to other team members in tasks for which they have approved training records for Qualifications A minimum of 1 years record keeping experience (preferably electronic records). GMP experience is preferable Good team player Good communication skills both internally and externally Note: the working pattern for this role will be a 39hr working week which consists of mainly Monday - Friday but will work Tues-Saturday working pattern every third week. Additional Information 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 47,000 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.

Responsibilities

The primary duty is to receive, verify, and log all incoming customer samples, ensuring accurate reconciliation of accompanying documentation and performing initial integrity and compliance checks. This role also involves accurately progressing samples to the correct laboratory sections while maintaining high standards of efficiency and quality.