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.

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.

Job Description

The Laboratory Manager is responsible for maintaining a positive operating margin at the laboratory level (EBITAS), achieving the annual budget, and maintaining necessary cost control. Supervises all Department Managers, who are responsible for laboratory personnel, and provides leadership and direction as needed. Responsible for ensuring compliance and integration of facility operation with corporate and regulatory policies and procedures

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

Responsible for upholding and enforcing Company policies, including but not limited to, Quality, Safety, Standard Operating Procedures, Ethics, and Harassment.Expected to champion Health & Safety and assume ownership for the safety of those employees within her/his responsibility.Manages the laboratory to provide positive operating margin and meet annual budgetary goals.Builds and maintains positive customer relationships and sales growth through direct interaction with customers and Eurofins Environment Testing America sales personnel.Establishes and maintains an active and positive safety culture and ensures that the Employee Health and Safety procedures are implemented and followed to maintain facility operations that are compliant with appropriate policies and regulations.Reviews and approves Quality Assurance Standard Operating Procedures for the facility and ensures their implementation so that the facility is operated in a compliant manner which allows it to produce defensible data.Prioritizes the activities of the operations groups to ensure key goals are achieved and customer service needs are addressed.Provides periodic reports to VPO to ensure that goals and objectives are being achieved and to recognize opportunities for development.Works with Project Managers and the MPM to ensure the accurate forecast of receipts, provide quality analytical data to clients and meet on- time delivery dates.Communicates facility-specific goals and objectives to employees. Communicates and implements company initiatives designed to foster teamwork and communication.Fulfills supervisory responsibilities with direct reports to achieve strong staff performance. Mentors key employees.Evaluates and maintains appropriate staffing levels to support operational needs and budgetary requirements.Supports the Human Resources function to ensure that all policies and programs are applied consistently throughout the laboratory.Works with the IT Group to ensure that the facility has appropriate Information Technology resources and that they are being used effectively to support operational requirements.Actively participates in the process of sharing and adopting best practices within Eurofins Environment Testing America. Provides technical assistance to other Eurofins Environment Testing America laboratories as needed to improve productivity and customer service.Approves all laboratory purchases including capital spending approvals to support the business plan and maintain profitability.Maintaining lab metrics scores for Quality and client experience at 90% or greater.Participates in the creation of annual budget: forecast of revenue, determination of manpower, CAPEX.Works with Finance to create weekly revenue forecast and participates in Monthly financial calls to discuss lab performance.Conducts regular 1:1 and group meetings with department managers.Provides yearly performance reviews to all reporting managers and ensures that the laboratory meet deadlines for submittal of reviews for all employees.

Qualifications

Basic Minimum Qualifications (BMQ):

Education:

BS/BA degree in Chemistry or a related field

Experience:

3 years supervisory experience3 years management experience5 years analytical experience or related technical field

Ability and/or Skills

Familiarity with laboratory operations and servicesFamiliarity with EPA, DOT, OSHA, and DOL regulationsExcellent verbal and written skillsStrong customer relations skillsAbility to manage a business at a profit/loss responsibility levelAbility to control operating budgetsAbility to develop and enforce policies and operating practicesAbility to prioritize and delegate responsibilitiesAbility to successfully handle contract and other negotiationsStrong decision-making abilitiesProblem-solving abilitiesStrong communicationHighly organized

Additional Information

Requirements:

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

Position is full-time Monday - Friday 8:00 am - :00 pm. Candidates currently living within a commutable distance of Fort Lauderdale, FL are encouraged to apply. 

Salary range: $70,000 - $75,000/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 USA Environment Testing is a M/F, Disabled, and Veteran Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer.