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 35 years, Eurofins has grown from one laboratory in Nantes, France to over 61,000 staff across a network of independent companies in 61 countries, operating ca. 900 laboratories.

Performing over 450 million tests every year, 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.

Ever since its IPO on the French stock exchange in 1997, Eurofins has been one of the fastest growing listed European companies. In 2022, Eurofins recorded revenues of €6,712 million.

Chemtest is part of Eurofins; we are an award winning company providing routine analytical services and bespoke specialist testing throughout the UK, Ireland and Europe. Our staff are employed across a number of strategically placed locations, all utilising the latest technologies. Our laboratories are UKAS accredited to ISO/IEC 17025:2005 and, where applicable the Environment Agency MCERTS Performance Standard for soils.

• Research and develop any new and diverse inorganic analytical techniques as required by the client and business
• Investigate and conduct non routine methodology and data generation as required by client and business
• Assist in investigations, review and presentation of resource developments that would improve analytical methodology
• Contribute to development, compilation and presentation of method validation packages in line with accreditation requirements.
• Support inorganics department in areas requiring advanced expertise in analytical chemistry
• Assist quality team in scheduled audits
• Respond to client queries in a prompt and professional manner, either directly, or in support of other colleagues
• Develop and implement business improvement ideas, across all areas of the inorganics lab, which will enhance instrument availability, reduce the amount of re-work and the number of customer queries, and improve the quality of our analytical capabilities, and the service our clients receive
• Support the sales and marketing team on technical matters, and assist wherever possible in winning new clients, and smoothly onboarding them
• Assist in the future planning for the inorganics lab, including capacity assessments, choice of new instruments, the purchasing of consumables, etc.
• Quality aspects of ISO 17025 – chart reviews, non-conformity investigation,
• Instrumental techniques – ICP-OES and ICP/MS, IC, wet chemistry techniques, continuous flow analyser, discrete analyser, HPLC, elemental analyser, calorimeter, atomic fluorescence
• Operational staff training

• Science degree (Chemistry or equivalent)

• Minimum 5 years working experience with inorganic method techniques
• Must have extensive knowledge of Instrumental techniques – ICP-OES and ICP/MS, IC, wet chemistry techniques, continuous flow analyser, discrete analyser, HPLC, elemental analyser, calorimeter, atomic fluorescence
• Knowledge of ISO 17025 and MCERTS