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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 Sample Reception and Logistics Technician perform a dual-role position combining environmental field sampling with laboratory logistics and coordination duties. This role supports Logistics Team through professional sample collection and Sample Reception team by ensuring timely dispatch of samples to external labs while managing sampling kits and ordering of goods.

Job responsibilities:

Field Sampling Duties:

✓ Collect environmental samples from various customer locations as planned by the logistics team lead.

✓ Follow approved sampling procedures and safety guidelines at all times.

✓ Properly label, store, and transport samples under required temperature-controlled conditions.

✓ Maintain sampling equipment and field kits in clean and operational condition. ✓ Operate and maintain company vehicles responsibly and in compliance with road safety regulations.

✓ Report site issues, hazards, delays, or incidents promptly.

✓ Represent the company professionally during client site visits.

✓ Manage Logistics Mailbox and Scheduling in the absence of Team Lead.

Laboratory Sample Reception Duties

Site Location: Eurofins Environment Testing, Little Island site

✓ Send samples for subcontract laboratory testing via DHL, each day, ensuring correct packaging, preservation, and documentation.

✓ Coordinate dispatch and shipment of samples to external subcontract laboratories with lab team.

✓ Prepare and dispatch sampling kits as per the requests from internal and external customers while managing good traceability through record keeping.

✓ Place purchase orders for laboratory consumables, sampling materials, and operational supplies.

✓ Receive delivered goods and verify orders against documentation.

✓ Maintain organised records of shipments, orders, and laboratory logistics documentation.

✓ Communicate effectively with laboratory teams, couriers, suppliers, and subcontract partners.

✓ Manage procurement for the business.

What can we offer you?

• Fixed term contract;
• Flexible working hours;
• A dynamic team with flat hierarchies and opportunities for active participation;
• Personal and professional development opportunities, as well as exclusive benefits for Eurofins employees;

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 ca. 65,000 staff across a decentralised and entrepreneurial network of 950 laboratories in 60 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 2024, Eurofins generated total revenues of EUR 6.9 billion, and has been among the best performing stocks in Europe over the past 20 years.