HR Generalist - Eurofins Environment Testing Ireland

In a nutshell:

We are looking for an individual to provide Human Resource leadership and support for the Eurofins Environment Testing Ireland Team. Individual must be hands on and practical, and able to work with the wider team to achieve their goals. Responsibilities range from essential administration tasks including payroll, to improving retention, employee welfare and satisfaction, and recruiting and retaining top talent.

This is a part time role, nominally 3 days per week, with flexibility to work equivalent hours across 5 days.

Reporting to: 

Managing Director, dotted line to regional HR.

Responsibilities: 

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Organising and managing recruitment needs and successful onboarding of new starters
• Performing transactional administration e.g. promotions, probationary period reviews.
• Monitoring compliance of HR processes with regulatory requirements.
• Communicating with managers and employees regularly to give HR support and establish rapport, gauge morale, and proactively address HR needs to improve retention and reduce attrition.
• Facilitating consistent implementation of HR policies and procedures. 
• Leading Payroll process to facilitate correct payments of wages.
• Maintaining, streamlining and improving HR systems.
• Working closely with HR colleagues across Eurofins to identify and implement best practices

What we are looking for: 

• A third level qualification in HRM or a related subject is required (CIPD).
• Minimum of 2 years prior HR experience

Who we are looking for:

All employees are expected to demonstrate the following behaviours:

• Practical: hands on, can do, attitude. Proactive.
• Good Communication:   effective listener and good quality verbal / written communication.
• Teamwork:  Works well in a team environment and encourages teamwork
• Assertive:   speaks out where required, clarifying points and making recommendations.
• Organised:   Plans work thoroughly, notifying and involving other areas where required.
• Flexible: willingness to travel to other Eurofins locations in Ireland as needed, potentially outside normal hours.
• Productive:   Results and quality of work always meets the requirements of the organisation.
• Quality Orientated: ensure adherence to regulatory, INAB, Customer and Organisational requirements.
• Problem Solving:  Constant innovation and implementation of ideas to improve the performance.

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 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 62,000 staff across a decentralised and entrepreneurial network of over 900 laboratories in 62 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.