Green Synthetic Scientist

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.Eurofins PSS Insourcing Solutions is a global, award-winning insourcing solution. We place our skilled team directly at the client site, managing operations seamlessly and eliminating complexities. We ensure a strategic, long-term service commitment that delivers value directly at the client’ site, utilising their facilities, equipment, and methodologies, while maintaining the same service, expertise, and cGMP compliance available at the Eurofins facility. If you're an employee seeking an exceptional career journey, Eurofins PSS Insourcing Solutions is your gateway to a future where innovation, collaboration, and success converge. Join us in a world where excellence knows no boundaries!Job DescriptionThis role is a permanent full-time position, working a 37.5 hour week, flexibly between Monday – Friday 07:00 – 19:00The purpose of this job is to perform process chemistry, developing reactions, isolations and purification of chemical entities and characterisation associated with project demands and build process understanding and control to meet project demands. Ensuring a reaction route offers the best balance between operational, environment, legal and economic factors at the present scientific knowledge level.Plan, define and execute synthetic processes that apply green chemistry principles to the synthesis of functional materials for use in product formulations, aligned with project demands using traditional and modern analytical techniques, as required by the Group Leader or customer representative under direction.Build process understanding of key data, e.g. mechanisms, loss to liquors, solution yields and transfer findings to the project representative.Build understanding in having in place all necessary safety / COSHH information in line with reaction progressions.Generate complete characterisation data for materials made, including performance testing in relevant formulations where necessary.To prepare and report findings and approve data in which they have received the appropriate training and are deemed competent.To learn to deal with customer queries and contact designated personnel, with appropriate support from Group Leader, with any relevant information or issues relating to results or the service in general.QualificationsA degree in Chemistry or a related discipline is required.A fundamental knowledge of Synthetic Organic Chemistry is essential with emphasis on green chemistry principles.Up to 2 years’ relevant experience of synthetic chemistry in a development laboratory.Good foundational experience with traditional analytical techniques as well as modern instrumental equipment (HPLC, GC, LC/MS, NMR). Able to interpret raw data and draw conclusions.Additional InformationAt Eurofins we are growing, innovating and always learning. We celebrate the achievements of our employees through annual long service awards, recognise our colleagues special life events, and we are committed to charitable causes through global fundraising activities.As a Eurofins employee you will benefit from:Reward and RecognitionHealth Cash PlanLife Assurance (4 times annual salary).Company Pension PlanEmployee Assistance Programme – 24/7 confidential support.Free car parkingWorldwide career opportunitiesEveryone who joins our team also gets access to Perkbox, allowing you to save money all year round. Whether its supermarket savings or days out, the daily coffee or a summer holiday – there’s something to suit everyone’s lifestyle.What Happens NextOur people are the backbone of what we do, so it's incredibly important we find the right individuals to join us. As a potential new recruit you'll be invited to meet the team in the form of an assessment centre or a staged interview process dependent on the role and it's requirements, this will give you the opportunity to see what working for Eurofins is really like and enable us to get you know your key skills and strengths.Your dataAs part of any recruitment process, the company collects and processes personal data relating to job applicants. The company is committed to being transparent about how it collects and uses that data and to meeting its data protection obligations.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:
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