Salary: Competitive
Location: Midlands, Tamworth UK
Contract: Permanent, full-time
Hours: 37.5 hours
Closing date: 22nd December 2024
The Role
We are currently recruiting for a Forensic Examiner to join our fantastic team at our site based in the Midlands. If you are passionate about a rewarding career in Forensic testing and want to use your expertise to its full potential, then this is a great opportunity to join a well-established and successful market leading company with over 30 years’ experience in providing Forensic Services to the Police forces of England and Wales, as well as other commercial organisations and public sector bodies.
This is a truly exciting time to begin or continue your career with our first-class business, as a Forensic Examiner you will be responsible for the examination of exhibits for blood, semen, saliva, cellular material and the recovery of contingency evidence. The candidate will be expected to follow Standard Operating Procedures (SOP’s) as well as defined strategies from the Reporting Officer’s. Shift work, on-call working and bank holiday cover will be a requirement of the Examiner upon completing the required training.
Due to the highly sensitive nature of the work, applicants should note that security clearance is required for this role. To gain security clearance you must have five years continuous residency in the UK. Security clearance is undertaken by a third party to police personnel vetting standards (NPPV/3 and SC), as such any criminal convictions may prevent you from gaining security clearance. Further information on the security clearance process and requirement can be found at https://www.warwickshire.police.uk/police-forces/warwickshire-police/areas/warwickshire-police/about-us/about-us/police-national-vetting-service/. In addition, all successful applicants will be required to undertake drug and alcohol testing prior to commencing employment.
Key Responsibilities and Accountabilities
The successful candidate will be expected to carry out a variety of examinations of exhibits to standard operating procedure requirements and required turnaround times. You will also be accountable for maintaining set KPI’s and competences.
The ideal Candidate:
We are looking for someone who can demonstrate good organisational skills and attention to detail along with previous laboratory experience (preferable but not essential), is highly motivated, enthusiastic and possesses the competence and team spirit to support others and contribute to a positive culture. Here at EFS integrity and customer focus is at the heart of everything we do, having high levels of resilience and flexibility and the ability to work to deadlines would be a distinct advantage and will see you excel in this role.
If you have knowledge of working in a commercial forensic setting then we would love to hear from you.
Company Benefits
In return for your hard work and loyal service, we will offer you genuine career and salary progression through our Career Pathways programme, a competitive salary, and a selection of employee benefits via our flexible benefits menu which includes cycle to work, give as you earn, volunteering days,buy and sell holiday. In addition, we also offer the following:
Due to the nature of the work we undertake on our EFS (Tamworth) Midlands site, for employees based at EFS Midlands or likely to attend EFS Midlands as part of their role you must inform us if you come into contact with any firearms or ammunition through work or any other reason as there will be precautions you will need to take in order to enter the premises. This also applies to persons involved in clay pigeon shooting, and those who regularly use any cartridge based tools such as nail/stud guns. Please provide details on your application.
To apply, please visit https: //www.eurofins.co.uk/careers/current-vacancies/
