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Eurofins Stores and Health & Safety Coordinator in Belfast, United Kingdom
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.
We are looking for a confident individual who can work within a fast pace setting to ensure sufficient stock levels for operational needs. The individual will be the face of the company when dealing with suppliers and procurement. The successful individual will also manage weekly health and safety checks, COSHH sheets relating to consumables purchased and other Health and Safety matters within the business supported by Group level.
This is a full time time role working Monday to Friday from 09;00 - 17:00.
To communicate with suppliers ensuring a high level of customer service building and retaining the relationship.
Compare items received against items ordered and ensure incoming stock is receipted and managed appropriately.
Carrying out periodic reviews of outgoing orders to ensure accuracy of shipments and respective stock records.
Ensure mistakes, inaccuracies and discrepancies with orders are investigated, addressed, and resolved.
Replying to emails and TEAMS messages and ensuring the accounts database is kept up to date.
Help develop and maintain the company’s stock management strategy with the aim of reducing losses and obsolete stock and maximizing available space.
Monitoring delayed stock to ensure that all orders for all consumables are dealt with according to realistic lead times.
Be responsible for managing and running weekly and monthly stock takes.
Communicate weekly reports on stock levels, lead times, expected deliveries and any issues to the relevant departments.
To work alongside the Business unit manager in understanding the business costing and pricing strategies
To ensure that all Health & Safety policies and procedures are complied with and fully maintained.
Due diligence with respect to the safety of staff and ensuring that adequate safety training and maintenance of working area’s are provided in accordance with Health and Safety at Work (COSHH) requirements.
Conduct workplace inspections and report findings.
Conduct investigations into accidents or incidents.
Help creating a culture of continuous improvement which empowers staff to take ownership of their working environment. Help develop and maintain a continuous improvement philosophy within business.
Manage projects in line with agreed time, budget and quality constraints, ensuring relevant stakeholders are kept informed of progress e.g. change of supplier, introducing a new stock item or implementing a new H&S policy.
Degree or equivalent in science (desirable, but not essential).
Proven experience working with inventory systems (Kanban desirable but not essential).
Understanding of Health & Safety at work with a passion for providing a safe working environment.
Excellent communication skills with the ability to present information face to face, over TEAMs and on email.
Strong IT skills
Excellent organisational skills and attention to detail.
Self-motivated and good time management.
Full commitment to lean management.
Benefits
At Eurofins we are growing, innovating and always learning. We celebrate the achievements of our employees through annual long service awards, recognise our colleagues special life events, and we are committed to charitable causes through global fundraising activities.
As a Eurofins employee you will benefit from:
Life Assurance (4 times annual salary).
Company Pension Plan.
Employee Assistance Programme – 24/7 confidential support.
Enhanced Maternity, Paternity and Adoption pay scheme.
Holiday Purchase Scheme.
Free car parking.
Worldwide career opportunities.
Everyone who joins our team also gets access to Perkbox, allowing you to save money all year round. Whether its supermarket savings or days out, the daily coffee or a summer holiday – there’s something to suit everyone’s lifestyle.
What Happens Next
Our people are the backbone of what we do, so it's incredibly important we find the right individuals to join us. As a potential new recruit you'll be invited to meet the team in the form of an assessment centre or a staged interview process dependent on the role and it's requirements, this will give you the opportunity to see what working for Eurofins is really like and enable us to get you know your key skills and strengths.
Your data
As part of any recruitment process, the company collects and processes personal data relating to job applicants. The company is committed to being transparent about how it collects and uses that data and to meeting its data protection obligations.
Closing Date
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 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/
