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 works with the biggest companies in the world to ensure the products they supply are safe, their ingredients are authentic and labelling is accurate. Eurofins believes it is a global leader in food, environmental, pharmaceutical and cosmetics products testing and in agroscience CRO services. It is also one of the global independent market leaders in certain testing and laboratory services for genomics, discovery pharmacology, forensics, CDMO, advanced material sciences and in the support of clinical studies.

In over just 30 years, Eurofins has grown from one laboratory in Nantes, France to over 50,000 staff across a network of more than 900 independent companies in over 50 countries and operating more than 800 laboratories. Eurofins offers a portfolio of over 200,000 analytical methods to evaluate the safety, identity, composition, authenticity, origin, traceability and purity of biological substances and products, as well as providing innovative clinical diagnostic testing services, as one of the leading global emerging players in specialised clinical diagnostics testing.

In 2020, Eurofins generated total revenues of EUR € 5.4 billion, and has been among the best performing stocks in Europe over the past 20 years.

**Job Description**:
**The Role**

To be responsible for the completion of the examination work associated with the strategy and instructions of Firearms casework submissions and Standard Operating Procedures. This will include simple biology casework such as Cellular recovery and targeted exams as assigned by Team Lead.

To be responsible for the day to day laboratory maintenance including exhibit management.

The role is designed for the examiner to receive progressive training in order to have opportunity to become a Reporter over a period of time.

**Key Responsibilities and Accountabilities**
- Examinations of variety of exhibits to standard operating procedure requirements and required turn around times
- Laboratory and exhibit management
- Complete training, self study and maintain set KPIs and competences
- Reporting in accordance with set turn around times.

**Qualifications**:
**Knowledge, Experience and Technical Skills**

**Essential**
- Degree level education
- Interest in firearms
- At least one year work experience in any field
- Demonstrate good organisational skills
- Have high levels of resilience and flexibility and the ability to work to deadlines
- Demonstrate ownership of issues and their resolution
- Communicate and work proactively with others (both colleagues and customers), focussing on a collective goal
- Embrace continuous improvement projects with active involvement

**Preferred**
- Driving licence
- Previous work experience in a commercial forensic setting

The organisation treats personal data collected during the recruitment process in accordance with its data protection policy. Information about how your data is used and the basis for processing your data is provided in the organisations applicant privacy notice.

Additional Information
**Salary**:Competitive

**Contract**:Permanent

**Hours**: 37.5 hours per week

**Location**:Leeds