Environmental Project Management Assistant, Environment Testing

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.

The Project Management Assistant supports the Project Management staff in servicing clients to meet the laboratory mission.  Position is Full time, M-F 8:00am- 4:30pm (flexible) with overtime as needed.

Must live a commutable distance to North Kingstown, RI AND have a background in Environment.   

This is a great opportunity to gain experience in Project Management and grow with the organization. 

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

Assists on-site and off-site Project Management staff as follows:

• Creates bottle orders 
• Schedules courier or Service Center pick ups or drop offs as needed 
• Creates and issues final report by client due date 
• Issues final data package 
• Completes state reporting forms and submissions 
• Completes data uploads
• Compiles case narrative
• Invoicing and payment processing
• Reviews final invoice before issuing to client 
• Generates credit/debit memos as needed and submits for approvals
• Answers phone and redirects calls to Project Managers

Assists with sample receiving as follows:

• Reviews log-in 
• Assists with unpacking coolers during high receipt periods
• Uploads sample receipt paperwork to LIMS and files hard-copies
• Assists with sample control when client requests changes to jobs such as relocating or relabeling samples
• Confirms that any client needed information (purchase order, project number, etc.) is recorded in LIMS for invoicing 

Basic Minimum Qualifications 

• Associate degree (four years client-relationship/client service experience may substitute for degree)
• High school Chemistry coursework, basic laboratory experience
• Environmental laboratory experience
• 1-3 years business experience required
• Authorization to work in the United States without restriction or sponsorship 

Ideal Candidates will have: 

• Customer service/client relations experience preferred
• Bench chemist experience preferred
• Strong interpersonal skills
• Effective problem-solving skills
• Strong oral and written communication skills
• Strong organizational skills
• Computer skills, using routine software applications, such as Outlook, Office, Excel, Word, Access, and PowerPoint.

Pay range: $20-23/hour (DOE) plus full benefits 

Final candidates must pass a pre-employment background check and drug screen

Professional working proficiency in English is a requirement, including the ability to read, write and speak in English.

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 Eurofins Scientific 2/2 March 2023 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 61,000 staff across a decentralised and entrepreneurial network of ca. 900 laboratories in 61 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 2022, Eurofins generated total revenues of EUR 6.7 billion, and has been among the best performing stocks in Europe over the past 20 years.

We do not offer Visa Sponsorship for this role.

Eurofins is a M/F, Disabled, and Veteran Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer.

Eurofins USA Environment Testing is a Disabled and Veteran Equal Employment Opportunity employer.