Location
Central London

Hours
Full Time - Permanent position operating on a continuous 2 week rotating pattern of 11-hour day shifts:
Week One: Monday, Tuesday, Saturday and Sunday
Week Two: Wednesday, Thursday and Friday
Shift options: 06:00 to 17:00 or 07:00 to 18:00 with breaks included

Salary
Negotiable

About the Role
Eurofins UK PSS is part of Eurofins Scientific, a global life sciences company dedicated to providing analytical testing services that ensure safety, authenticity, and compliance across multiple industries. As a Shift Environmental Monitoring Scientist, you will support environmental monitoring testing to assure the suitability of client manufacturing facilities. Your key responsibilities will include aseptically collecting environmental monitoring and cleaning validation samples within sterile manufacturing environments, ensuring full compliance with GMP requirements, SOPs, and approved sampling procedures. You will perform routine and non-routine microbiological and QC testing such as bioburden, endotoxin, concentration, and conductivity analysis, maintaining accuracy and reproducibility across all laboratory activities.
You will manage samples throughout their lifecycle using LIMS, ensuring accurate chain of custody, sample receipt, aliquotting, storage, testing, reconciliation, and documentation in line with quality standards. Reviewing manufacturing schedules and environmental monitoring plans to ensure all required samples are collected and assessed appropriately will be essential, alongside investigating out-of-specification results or action limit excursions according to client procedures.
Additional duties include calculating, evaluating, reviewing, and GMP assessing analytical data, preparing technical reports, communicating results effectively, supporting laboratory and equipment maintenance, and contributing to continuous improvement and lean laboratory initiatives. You will build a strong understanding of client requirements, service goals, and manufacturing processes, ensuring customer-focused decisions while maintaining up-to-date technical knowledge and adapting to new technologies and methods.
Eurofins PSS Insourcing Solutions® offers a unique opportunity to work directly at client sites, managing operations seamlessly with a commitment to quality, compliance, and innovation. We are proud to be an armed forces-friendly employer and welcome applications from reservists, veterans, cadet instructors, and military spouses and partners.

Experience
Experience working within a GMP-controlled pharmaceutical laboratory environment is essential, with a strong understanding of quality and regulatory requirements. Experience in microbiological and QC testing, environmental monitoring, and sample lifecycle management using LIMS is highly desirable.

About you
You are highly organised with excellent prioritisation skills, maintaining accuracy and attention to detail in all tasks. You possess strong documentation and record-keeping skills, ensuring compliance with GMP and company procedures. Excellent communication skills are required to build effective working relationships with internal stakeholders and external clients. You have a passion for quality, client service, and continuous improvement, and you work collaboratively as part of a team to deliver high standards of performance and customer satisfaction.

Qualifications
You will hold a degree or higher qualification in a relevant scientific discipline such as Microbiology, Biology, Chemistry, or a related life science subject.