Manager (Sample Management Department) - Eurofins Environment Testing North Central - University Park, IL

Manager responsibilities include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Assures compliance with health and safety and regulatory requirements and serves as a resource for employees
• Adherence to QA and QC protocols
• Responsible for approval of time worked, approving paid time off and other administrative duties.
• Develops and monitors group work schedules based on current and projected workloads and adjusts staffing resources as needed
• Ensures that the laboratory group members maintain effective communication in order to eliminate waste and scheduling delays. Continually developing a team that works well together
• Adherence to corporate policies and standard operating procedures (SOPs)
• Responsible for departmental SOPs
• Sets targets, standards for and monitors productivity and timeliness within the group
• Responsible for maintaining of proper inventory of supplies to effectively manage costs while meeting customer objectives and needs

The ideal candidate would possess:

• Prior experience with managing people
• Strong computer and organizational skills
• Excellent communication (both oral and written) and attention to detail
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team, self-motivated, adaptability, and a positive attitude
• Good financial acumen is a plus
• Delegation skills to foster employee development

Basic Minimum Qualifications:

• High school diploma or GED.  BS or BA degree is preferred, but not required.  
• Minimum of five years of laboratory experience or similar experience with customer service, sample login and creation of sample collection kits
• Must be able to work standing for most of the day
• Must be able to lift up to 55 pounds

Requirements:

• Authorization to work in the United States indefinitely without restriction or sponsorship
• Professional working proficiency in English is a requirement, including the ability to read, write and speak in English

Position is full-time day shift Monday - Friday.  Candidates currently living within a commutable distance of University Park, IL are encouraged to apply.

Compensation rate: $52,000 - 58,000/yr.

 Eurofins Environment Testing (USA) provides a compensation range for informational purposes, the actual base salary may vary based upon, but not limited to, relevant experience and skill set, base salary of internal peers, business sector, and geographic location.

To learn more about Eurofins, please explore our website www.eurofinsus.com.

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.

Eurofins is a M/F, Disabled, and Veteran Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer.