IH Sample Receiving Technician (Industrial Hygiene) - Eurofins Analytics - Ashland, VA

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.

This position is expected to assist and oversee all the different aspects of shipping, receiving, storing, distributing and logging samples.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities: 

• Prepare samples from processing 
• Accepts and signs for deliveries. 
• Assists in unloading shipments from delivery truck. 
• Opens coolers and inspects contents of shipments. Checks documentation to ensure all samples are accounted for. 
• Distributes samples in different departments as appropriate. 
• Follows strict safety and quality control procedures. 
• Stores, restocks, and shelves samples as necessary. 
• Ensures that work area is clean and organized. 
• Enters records in LIMS system

Education/Experience (Basic Minimum Qualifications):

• Education: High school diploma or GED is required.
• Experience: Basic chemical knowledge. Chemistry nomenclature and knowledge of industrial hygiene methods is ideal.

Ability and/or Skills (BMQ): 
Demonstrates strong organizational skills. 
Pays close attention to detail. 
Possesses physical strength necessary to lift and move heavy boxes  received by the lab. 
Exhibits ability to use LIMS software competently. 
Possesses basic math skills. 
Works well with a team. 
Communicates clearly and effectively. 
Demonstrates strong interpersonal skills. 
Handles issues calmly and politely. 
Manages time efficiently. 
Demonstrates solid problem-solving skills. 
Is capable of operating forklifts and other equipment to move heavy shipments. 
Demonstrates awareness of safety procedures

Requirements:

• Authorization to work in the United States indefinitely without restriction or sponsorship
• Professional working proficiency in English is a requirement, including the ability to read, write and speak in English

Position is full-time Monday - Friday 8:30 am - 5:00 pm. Candidates currently living within a commutable distance of Ashland, VA are encouraged to apply. 

Pay rate: $19/hr

Eurofins Environment Testing (USA) provides a compensation range for informational purposes, the actual base salary may vary based upon, but not limited to, relevant experience and skill set, base salary of internal peers, business sector, and geographic location.

To learn more about Eurofins, please explore our website www.eurofinsus.com.

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.

Eurofins USA Environment Testing is a Disabled and Veteran Equal Employment Opportunity employer.