Eurofins
Logistics Team Leader
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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.
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.
We’re proud to be an armed forces-friendly place to work and welcome applications from reservists, armed forces veterans (including the wounded, injured, and sick), as well as cadet instructors, and military spouses and partners.
If you want to continue to help make our world a safer and healthier place, then apply for the role below and become a part of the extraordinary Eurofins network.
Job Description
Unfortunately, we are unable to offer sponsorship for this role.
The purpose of this position will be to manage the collection, delivery team, and the fleet associated with the Feltham site.
- Full time position, working 37.5 hours per week - Monday to Friday 08:30 till 16:30.
- Ensuring highest standards of Health and Safety are maintained across the logistics team, reporting and investigating all incidents and accidents within the safety portal.
- Ensure effective management of temperature control environments, through the calibration of probes and profiling of vans.
- Manage and audit all aspects of logistics work and procedures to ensure consistent delivery across the team.
- Co-operate with the investigation and resolution of customer issues relating to the business unit.
- Monitor all spend and review with Logistics management.
- Co-ordination of the logistics team absence ensuring continued effective delivery of required tasks.
- Manage coordination of sample collection routes to ensure efficient use of company resources delivering an efficient and effective service supporting both clients and laboratories.
- Liaison with third party chilled couriers to facilitate any additional requirements.
- Direct client liaison regarding collections providing updates when required.
- Internal communication with other Eurofins departments to facilitate logistics requirements.
- Out of hours cover for logistics team, a shred approach in place.
- Processing and reporting of data as required for logistics team.
- Management of the Eurofins fleet at home site, ensuring all vehicles are serviced and compliant.
- Ensure effective and efficient use of sample drop off locations.
- Daily management of the logistics team for the home site, as well as covering absence for logistics management at other sites.
- Recruitment and induction of newly recruited drivers.
- Performance management of the team.
- Monitoring of logistics team on road behavior via digital platforms.
- Cover for the Logistics manager where required.
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Qualifications
- Full Driving Licence.
- Background in logistics, particularly in transport planning and fleet management.
- People and performance management skills.
- Experience in Transport planning and fleet management.
- Good computer skills, including experience with Microsoft packages.
- Experience using Telematics systems and Traffic management systems.
- Excellent communication and people skills.
- Highly organized with good attention to detail.
- Ability to work under pressure and with tight deadlines.
- Continuous improvement focused.
Additional Information
At Eurofins, we are growing, innovating, and always learning. We celebrate the achievements of our employees through annual long service awards, recognize our colleagues' special life events, and we are committed to charitable causes through global fundraising activities.
As a Eurofins employee, you will benefit from:
- Enhanced Annual Leave Entitlement.
- Company Pension Plan.
- Life Assurance Scheme (4 times annual salary).
- Enhanced Maternity, Adoption, and Paternity Schemes.
- Employee Assistance Programme – 24/7 confidential.
- Health Cash Plan.
- Health and Wellbeing Programmes.
- Free parking.
- Worldwide career opportunities.
We also have in place rewards recognizing the great work of our employees, their dedicated service, and celebrating special life events. As a Eurofins employee, you will benefit from:
- Being part of a Reward and Recognition Scheme, recognizing great work across our teams.
- Holiday entitlement increases with service.
- The option to opt into our Health Cash Plan, designed to help look after your everyday health and wellbeing. This allows you to claim back the cost of routine healthcare expenses such as dental check-ups, eye tests, glasses or contact lenses, and other everyday medical treatments.
- Life Assurance from day one, providing cover of three times your annual salary.
- Automatic enrolment into our Company Pension Plan after three months (with the flexibility to opt out if you choose).
- Access to our Employee Assistance Programme, offering 24/7 confidential support for both personal and work-related matters.
- Being able to register your interest in volunteering days, which are designed to support employees who wish to do voluntary work during working hours as part of a wider strategy to contribute positively to the local community.
- Free on-site car parking.
- The opportunity to explore worldwide opportunities.
- Everyone who joins our team also gets access to Perkbox, allowing you to save money all year round. Whether it's supermarket savings or days out, the daily coffee, or a summer holiday – there’s something to suit everyone’s lifestyle.
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What Happens Next
Our 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 center or a staged interview process, dependent on the role and its requirements. This will give you the opportunity to see what working for Eurofins is really like and enable us to get to know your key skills and strengths.
Your Data
As 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.
Closing Date
We reserve the right to close or extend this position depending on application numbers. Therefore, we would urge candidates to submit an application as early as possible.
Due to the high volume of applications we receive, please be aware that if you do not receive a response within 4 weeks of the vacancy expiry date, unfortunately, on this occasion, your application has been unsuccessful.
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 applicants based on gender identity and/or expression, race, nationality, age, religion, sexual orientation, disability, and everything else that makes employees of Eurofins companies unique.
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