Quality Assurance Assistant- Environment Testing Earth City, Missouri

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.

The Quality Assurance Assistant assists the Quality Assurance (QA) Manager during audits and client visits. Helps maintain reference data in LIMS and performs spot audits internally at the request of the QA Manager. Performs customer service requests for Project Management staff, supplies SOP's, certification information, and method information. Works with the laboratory to maintain SOP's and other method performance documentation as

Position is onsite, located at our Earth City, MO laboratory.

Position can be Part time  or Full time.  Monday-Friday  1st shift

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Perform QA data audits to ensure laboratory is in compliance with policies and procedures.
• Assist in scheduling of proficiency testing samples and other QC samples. Process and report QC samples as routine samples to appropriate agencies.
• Issue controlled and uncontrolled documents to enforce current policies and SOP's.
• Assist QA Manager in maintaining the laboratory’s reference data.
• Prepare or post certification applications.
• Assist in internal and external audits and client visits.
• Ensure maintenance of training records for all employees.
• Assist in identification of systematic problems within laboratories.
• Recommend resolutions for ongoing or recurring nonconformance.
• Maintain historical indices of technical records including SOPs, QC records, laboratory data, etc.
• Ensure maintenance of records archives.
• Assist operations personnel in writing QA SOP’s.
• Assist departments in generating MDL spreadsheets and calculations, reviewing MDL studies.
• Answer questions on methods from laboratory personnel.
• Subcontract laboratory information maintenance.
• Laboratory surveillance to ensure equipment calibration.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Education: High school diploma or equivalent

Experience: 1-2 years laboratory experience is preferred.

Preferred Candidate will have the following experience: 

• Requires some college chemistry coursework, including lab experience
• Authorization to work in the United States indefinitely without restriction or sponsorship
• Environmental analytical methods
• Environmental regulatory requirements
• Quality Assurance requirements
• Computer skills
• Communication skills
• Organizational skills
• Time management skills
• Ability to prioritize
• Professional working proficiency in English is a requirement, including the ability to read, write and speak in English.

Pay range: $18-21/Hour (DOE) plus full benefits 

Final candidates must pass a pre-employment background check and drug screen

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.

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