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 works 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 the global leader in food, environment, pharmaceutical and cosmetic product testing and in agroscience Contract Research Organisation services. Eurofins 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. The Group also has a rapidly developing presence in highly specialised and molecular clinical diagnostic testing and in-vitro diagnostic products.

In over just 30 years, Eurofins has grown from one laboratory in Nantes, France to 55,000 staff across a decentralised and entrepreneurial network of 900 laboratories in over 50 countries. Eurofins offers 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 2020, Eurofins generated total revenues of EUR € 5.4 billion, and has been among the best performing stocks in Europe over the past 20 years.

EAG Laboratories, a Eurofins company, is looking for an Organic Spectroscopist to join our team. Our clients include leading edge technology companies, consumer product manufacturers, aerospace suppliers all working in the early phases of product development. Come and join a work environment where you will engage in peer-to-peer interaction to discuss and comprehensively understand client challenges, define the problems, develop and execute analyses.

Interested in working for a company that partners with companies who are developing the next generation of innovative materials and products, enjoy a challenge, comfortable working in a fast-paced environment with a team centric approach to solving problem? We encourage you to apply!

A Scientist in our Organic Analysis group is responsible for operating analytical equipment such as FTIR (Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy), Raman Spectroscopy and GC-MS (Gas Chromatography Mass Spectrometry). This position requires a solid technical foundation in analytical chemistry and/or materials science.

A typical day in the Organic Analysis group will consist of multiple activities and interactions, including:

• Writing up reports and processing previously acquired data
• Planning upcoming analyses
• Loading the instruments and acquiring new data

In parallel with that, you will likely have multiple other demands on your time:

• Internal group meetings to plan overall use of the instruments to meet deadlines
• Requests from customers to discuss prior reports or they may have questions about future analyses
• Meetings with the EAG sales team (which may also include customers) to discuss analyses and how we can help solve customers’ problems

You may also have some longer-term projects you are working on, such as:

• Developing new analysis methods for new materials
• Producing marketing materials or writing a paper
• Working with our support team or vendors on fine tuning our instruments
• Learning another adjacent technique or other training goals

All of these activities require a lot of communication and cooperation with your co-workers and colleagues. You’ll be learning to do a lot of things at once to keep multiple projects all moving forwards and you will be keeping other people on the team updated as to what you are doing. It’s a fast-moving job and we all like to share the load so helping other people in the team, and also being helped by them is part of what we do, in order to collectively help our clients meet their goals. Along the way you’ll do a lot of science too!

We are particularly interested in people with extensive/long term hands-on experience who have taken their own FTIR, Raman and GC-MS data and who are very comfortable with all stages of the analytical process: experimental design, preparing samples, acquiring data, interpreting spectra, writing reports and showing true insight into the meaning of the data acquired. You need to have a proven ability understand and interpret data from all these instruments.

Note: EAG Laboratories operates in accordance with International Traffic in Arms Regulation ITAR. This role subject to ITAR, you must be a US Person (Citizen or Permanente Resident) as you will be exposed to, managing, sharing, safeguarding, and disseminating technical information in accordance with policy and law ... (ITAR, 22 CFR §120-130)

Education and Experience:

• MS or PhD degree in Chemistry, Materials Science, Physics or a related discipline with 1 or more years of industrial experience preferred.

Job Knowledge, Skills, and Ability:

• Design analytical protocols with minimal assistance from other experienced scientists.
• Demonstrate competency with laboratory work and use of analytical instrumentation
• Interpret FTIR, Raman and GCMS analytical data and apply understanding of the data to solve specific problems
• Knowledge/experience in other analysis techniques is a strong plus, e.g. AFM (Atomic Force Microscopy, Thermal analysis, XRF (X-Ray Fluorescence).
• Write scientific reports that includes conclusions, methodology, and supporting analytical data
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced environment with firm deadlines
• Help maintain analytical instrumentation and troubleshoot problems when necessary
• Understand and write standard operating procedures and demonstrate the ability to follow procedures
• Work effectively in a team environment
• Able to communicate constructively with other scientists, EAG team members and customers
• Proficient in Microsoft Office (Including Excel, Word, Outlook, etc.)

Supervisory Responsibilities:

• Has no direct supervisory responsibilities, but provides technical direction to support staff, maintenance staff, sales staff, and less experienced analysts.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

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