Description

Based in Bucharest, Romania, our two laboratories specialise in vitamin and microbiology testing. Established over a decade ago, these sites continue to expand and evolve as part of the Eurofins network.

As part of the team, you will work closely with the Laboratory Manager and contribute to the laboratories’ ongoing development by driving operational excellence projects across sales, production, supply chain, and logistics business processes. Drawing on innovative practices from within the Eurofins network, you will play a key role in optimising workflows, enhancing efficiency, and supporting change management initiatives.

Your responsibilities will be:

Optimising team workflows

Map and streamline key operational processes (reception, preparation, analysis, and validation).

Identify bottlenecks and sources of time loss, highlighting key areas for improvement.

Propose and design practical solutions such as process reorganisation, visual management tools, and light automation.

Streamlining supply management

Analyse the usage of consumable laboratory goods across production lines to detect inefficiencies.

Implement a visual and ergonomic storage system to improve accessibility and reduce handling time.

Recommend strategies to minimise waste, prevent duplicates, and optimise stock levels.

Tracking performance and productivity

Create dashboards to track productivity gains and operational performance.

Facilitate regular team meetings to review progress and align on improvement actions.

Driving change and team engagement

Participate in collaborative workshops with laboratory teams to foster engagement and co-design solutions.

Communicate results effectively and promote local initiatives to encourage adoption and ownership.

Qualifications

Education: Currently enrolled, soon-to-graduate or recently graduated with a master’s degree in engineering.

Languages: Fluent in English, both written and spoken. Other languages are a plus. 

Personal skills: You have strong communication skills, with solid analytical and problem-solving abilities. You are flexible and adaptable in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.

Technical knowledge IT: Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite (especially Excel).

Please note that V.I.E contracts are only applicable to European Economic Area (EEA) citizens who are between 18 and 28 years old. The position is based in Bucharest, Romania.

Starting date: January, February or March 2026.

Duration of the contract: 12 months.

Additional Info

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!  As an Equal Opportunity Employer, the Eurofins network of companies believes in strength and innovation through diversity. 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 count on our dedicated carbon reduction team to help us to achieve this goal!

Find out more on our Careers 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 believes that it is a 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 also one of the market leaders in certain testing and laboratory services for genomics, and in the support of clinical studies, as well as in biopharma contract development and manufacturing. It also has a rapidly developing presence in highly specialised and molecular clinical diagnostic testing and in-vitro diagnostic products.

In over 37 years, Eurofins has grown from one laboratory in Nantes, France to over 65,000 staff across a decentralised and entrepreneurial network of more than 950 laboratories in over 1,000 companies across 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 6.95 billion, and has been among the best performing stocks in Europe over the past 20 years.

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.