Quality Manager

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.

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.

Purpose of the post:

• As quality manager within a small microbiology laboratory, this is a hands on role supporting the operations of the laboratory.
• Responsible for the quality management system in compliance with GMPs and company policy. This role will also be required to manage the maintenance of UKAS accreditation.
• Manage the vendor approval scheme, including sending and collating supplier quality questionnaires and conducting external supplier audits.
• Manage company validation activities and ensure that all facilities, processes, equipment and methods are fully validated to GMP standards.
• Maintain the company training matrix and records to ensure compliance.
• Write, review and amend work instructions, protocols or procedures as appropriate in a timely manner.
• Ensure compliance with all relevant cGMP, Quality standards and company procedures at all times – this includes reporting any deviations from these standards/procedures.
• Administer the quality documentation e.g. processing CCRFs in conjunction with the quality systems administrator
• Generate a monthly quality report for review at management meetings
• Perform self inspection audits in line with the internal auditing program
• Track both internal and external audit corrective actions and assist in preparing audit responses.
• Coordinate and track all calibration activities for equipment to ensure compliance to schedules.
• Generate quality plans where necessary.
• Ensure the retention and security of all quality records in conjunction with the quality systems administrator
• Check laboratory data, records and log books to ensure they are completed correctly.
• Investigate unexpected results, errors or problems in methods and offer suitable solutions.
• Perform data trending and use technical expertise to make suggestions for continuous
• Manage the vendor approval scheme, including supplier quality questionnaires and conducting supplier audits for both suppliers and subcontractors.
• Responsible for addressing supplier non-conformance issues.
• Manage company validation activities and ensure that all facilities, processes, equipment and methods are fully validated.
• Generate, review and approve validation protocols as required.
• Generate validation protocols or technical reports as required.
• Maintain the training matrix for the company, ensuring training records are compliant, in conjunction with the quality systems administrator
• Communicate with customers, including handling customer enquires; preparing quotations and contract review where necessary.

• Quality Management Systems experience
• Planning and organisation
• Written and verbal communication

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:

• Enhanced Annual Leave Entitlement
• Annual Leave Sellback Scheme
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