Shift Leader
- Cork
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Ensure Health and Safety is at the forefront of every laboratory activity.
- Drive continuous improvement of laboratory operations while maintaining the requirements of quality management system.
- Assist with daily planning of Department's workload to ensure customer deadlines are met and continually improve TATs against all internal and sub-contracted tests.
- Co-ordinating participation in External Proficiency schemes, to ensure that the scope of accreditation is effectively covered across all testing disciplines.
- Ensure the timely investigation of customer complaints, queries and other sources of non- conforming work.
- Perform testing as required to ensure customer and operational needs are met.
- Manage the operations of the late shift ensuring customer requirements are met while managing Health and Safety of the staff.
- Complete departmental validations, release timely analytical reports.
- Be the lead to manage the full cycle of sub-contracted samples from delivery to reporting and any queries coming out from the customer.
- Manage customer queries and be the bridge between the customer and the laboratory management.
- To uphold and maintain company and customer confidentiality at all times.
- Maintain accurate and systematic records in accordance with documented procedures.
- Proactively support maintenance of QMS to meet INAB/ISO17025 and customer requirements.
- Proactively investigate any faults or problems and, if not resolved, report findings to Management without delay.
- Proactively assist with and propose new technologies and innovate solutions to support the ongoing technical and operational development of the department.
- Ensuring that excellent standards of housekeeping and hygiene are maintained at all times according to stipulated procedures.
- Proven experience of working in a laboratory.
- Ability to work well under pressure.
- Excellent attention to detail.
- Ability to multi-task, prioritize, organise and co-ordinate the workload effectively with the team.
- Ability to think critically and solve problems quickly and efficiently.
- Good written and verbal communication skills.
- Able to work as a team and lead by example.
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We reserve the right to close or extend this position depending on application numbers. Therefore we would urge candidates to submit an application as early as possible.Due to the high volume of applications we receive please be aware that if you do not receive a response within 4 weeks of the vacancy expiry date unfortunately, on this occasion your application has been unsuccessful.We support your development! Do you feel you don't match 100% of the requirements? Don't hesitate to apply anyway! Eurofins companies are committed to supporting your career development.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.Sustainability matters to us! We are well on our way to achieving our objective of carbon neutrality by 2025, through a combination of emission reduction and compensation initiatives. We encourage our laboratory leaders to make sustainable changes at their local level, and in addition to their initiatives we also count on our dedicated carbon reduction team to help us to achieve this goal!Find out more in our career page: