Microbiology Group Leader - Kinsale

Company Description

****We have a fantastic opportunity for a Group Leader to join our client site based in Kinsale, Co Cork to cover maternity leave for a period of 12 months***  

This role is very likely to become permanent. 

Consider joining Eurofins where people are the most important element in our business.  Eurofins is a leading contract lab that provides testing and research services in the environmental, pharmaceutical, and biopharmaceutical sciences to clients worldwide.

This position is to join our innovative Professional Scientific Services (PSS) programme as an employee of Eurofins.  The programme places full-time analysts, technicians, scientists and technical support personnel managed by Eurofins directly at the client facility to provide long term staffing needs while maintaining the same services, expertise and cGMP compliance available at the Eurofins facility. This award-winning programme offers excellent career opportunities for people who have a proven track recording in combining excellent technical ability with first class interpersonal and communication skills

What can Eurofins offer you as an employee of ours?

• Developmental opportunities and career progression
• The opportunity to work with our client - a world -leading pharmaceutical and biotechnology company
• Location is easily accessible
• Private Medical Insurance 
• Income protection and life assurance
• Annual discretionary bonus
• Free parking onsite
• Full use of the canteen facilities on the client site
• Additional annual leave days with continued service
• The opportunity to work on products helping to save lives across the world

Job Description

The primary purpose of this role is to lead and manage an off-site Professional Scientific Staffing (PSS) team of analytical staff to ensure that team is operating at the highest quality and productivity standards, have high morale and retention, and the agreed customer requirements are entirely satisfied and that customer expectations are met or exceeded through effective leadership and quality operational management.  This person will be the key point of contact for the client on a day-to-day basis.

-         Effectively coordinating and managing the PSS team so that productivity, quality, documentation, work schedules, safety and housekeeping is run at maximum efficiency.

-         Ensuring that the customer gets the best possible service by continually reviewing best practice in relation to both commercial and quality issues and ensuring 100% ethical work standards and GMP compliance.

-         Development, coaching, motivation, and morale of team members through effective teambuilding and use of reward and recognitions systems celebrating team success.

-         Reviewing and approving all relevant documentation in a timely manner and ensuring that it communicated, documented, filed accurately and compliant with the required standards.

-         Reviewing and improving commercial work practices. Responsible for identifying areas where efficiencies may be improved and liaising with the customer appropriately about any proposed improvements.

-         Forward planning of activities in order to maximise the use of customer resources during training periods.

-         Ensuring that work is scheduled and cross training takes place so that the service levels agreed with the customer are achieved.  Responsible for amending schedules as required.

-         Performing analysis if required by shortage of personnel or other circumstances

-         Effectively coordinating and managing the PSS team so that productivity, quality, documentation, work schedules, safety and housekeeping is run at maximum efficiency.

-         Ensuring that the customer gets the best possible service by continually reviewing best practice in relation to both commercial and quality issues and ensuring 100% ethical work standards and GMP compliance.

-         Development, coaching, motivation, and morale of team members through effective teambuilding and use of reward and recognitions systems celebrating team success.

-         Communicating regularly with the customer and Eurofins Lancaster Laboratories to ensure information is shared effectively and actions are taken immediately.

-         Reviewing and approving all relevant documentation in a timely manner and ensuring that it communicated, documented, filed accurately and compliant with the required standards.

-         Reviewing and improving commercial work practices. Responsible for identifying areas where efficiencies may be improved and liaising with the customer appropriately about any proposed improvements.

-         Forward planning of activities in order to maximi