Laboratory Director - Eurofins Environment Testing (USA) - Edison, NJ

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.

Job Description

Laboratory Director responsibilities include, but are not limited to, the following :

· Prioritize daily operational activities

· Maintain staffing to meet workload goals by adjusting personnel to meet peak load demands

· Turn-around-time (TAT) Management

· Ensure Key Performance Indicators (KPI's) are met

· Annual Reviews and Job Plan Creation

· Monitor Health and Safety program to ensure laboratory operations are compliant

· Quality Control Management to continually improve the quality of work

· Review and approve SOPs

· Active Participation in Strategic Planning

· Certification Maintenance and Method Development Management

· Logistics Management

· Build and maintain positive customer relationships

· Ensure Client Satisfaction

· Represent the laboratory and make presentations as required

· Special Project Leadership (LIMS improvements, Lean, Other)

· Laboratory Operations Leadership

· Assists in capital budgeting and execution

· Assists in operational budgeting

· Cost management

· Promote the Company Vision

Qualifications

The ideal candidate would possess :

· Master of Business Administration a plus

· Expertise in field and leadership skills

· Excellent communication skills – written & oral

· Excellent computer skills

· Analytic capabilities

· Operations Planning

· Business acumen

· Strong Problem solving skills

· Personnel Management

Basic Minimum Qualifications :

· Bachelors of Science in Chemistry, Biology, Engineering

· At least 10 years professional experience in laboratory operations with a minimum of 5 years of laboratory operations or large/multi-department/team leadership with profit/loss accountability - $5M Net Sales or equivalent size operation. Demonstrated success in improving operational, profit, quality and safety performance.

· Authorization to work in the United States indefinitely without restriction or sponsorship

Additional Information

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: https://careers.eurofins.com/

Company description: 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.

The Eurofins network of companies is the global leader in food, environment, pharmaceutical and cosmetic product testing and in discovery pharmacology, forensics, advanced material sciences and Eurofins Scientific 2/2 March 2023 agroscience contract research services. It is one of the market leaders in certain testing and laboratory services for genomics, discovery pharmacology, forensics, advanced material sciences and in the support of clinical studies, as well as having an emerging global presence in Contract Development and Manufacturing Organisations. It also has a rapidly developing presence in highly specialised and molecular clinical diagnostic testing and in-vitro diagnostic products.

In over 35 years, Eurofins has grown from one laboratory in Nantes, France to 61,000 staff across a decentralised and entrepreneurial network of ca. 900 laboratories in 61 countries. Eurofins companies offer a portfolio of over 200,000 analytical methods to evaluate the safety, identity, composition, authenticity, origin, traceability and purity of biological substances and products.

In 2022, Eurofins generated total revenues of EUR 6.7 billion, and has been among the best performing stocks in Europe over the past 20 years.

We do not offer Visa Sponsorship for this role.

Eurofins is a M/F, Disabled, and Veteran Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer.