Senior Development Scientist - Eurofins Eaton Analytical

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.

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Evaluates new analytical technologies, methodologies, and related regulations. Prepares reports and recommendations for senior laboratory management. Maintains current technical knowledge and skills as defined in Eurofins Drinking Water policies. 
• Consults with regulators, clients, and others regarding current and future SDWA and CWA regulations, new analytical methods, emerging topics, collaboration and opportunities, and other technical aspects of water research and analyses. Manages special technical, research, and collaboration projects.
• Plans and conducts the development and validation of new analytical methods. Reviews and updates assigned existing controlled documents (procedures, forms, guidelines, instructions, etc.).
• Plans, prepares, and participates in conferences and exhibit events. Provides competitive presentations, workshops, and webinars to enhance the leadership of Eurofins Eaton Analytical.
• Assists in troubleshooting instrumental and analytical procedural issues. Provides and implements effective solutions to comply with QA/QC requirements, improve data quality, and satisfy customer requirements.
• Supports continuous process improvements to maximize instrument capacity and utilization, improve productivity and data quality, save costs, and decrease turn-around time.
• Provides technical guidance, training and feedback to employees. Oversees training of technical staff to ensure that the laboratory personnel are fully trained with the required technical skills and competency prior to performing a test.
• Assists in review, interpretation, and reporting of complex and routine test results. 
• Performs non-routine analysis as required to meet the needs of current long-term clients or to capture new clients in support of business development efforts.
• Provides technical support to marketing, sales, client services, and QA. Assists in developing and updating marketing brochures, preparing quotes to clients, interpreting testing results, addressing clients’ questions, and recommending corrective actions for auditing and other non-conforming quality events. 

• Understands and complies with Biosafety, Chemical Safety and Radiation Safety procedures and regulations. 
• Adheres to administrative policies including but not limited to: attendance, dress code and required training. 
• Performs on-call responsibilities for after-hour, weekend and holidays as needed.
• Acts in a professional manner when interacting with clients, visitors, and all staff.
• Ensure adherence to highest quality and efficiency standards in laboratory operations
• Foster morale and teamwork

• Six years of related Drinking Water testing experience.
• Strong computer, scientific, and organizational skills
• Excellent communication (oral and written) and attention to detail
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team, self-motivation, adaptability, and a positive attitude
• Ability to travel for conferences and client visits as needed
• Capable of representing the company well in external speaking events including webinars, conferences and client presentations
• Ability to learn new techniques, perform multiple tasks simultaneously, keep accurate records, follow instructions, and comply with company policies
• Strong leadership, initiative, and teambuilding skills
• PhD in chemistry, or other related degree concentration.
• Six years of related Drinking Water Testing experience.
• 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.

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  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 2023, Eurofins generated total revenues of EUR 6.515 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 USA Environment Testing is a Disabled and Veteran Equal Employment Opportunity employer.