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Job Description

The position of Equipment Lifecycle Engineer resides within the Validation, Maintenance and Calibration (VCM) department. The team is responsible for ensuring equipment is qualified throughout its lifecycle to the necessary requirements. The department works with teams that function on the local site, Benelux regional and global levels.

The Equipment Lifecycle Engineer is responsible for planning, scheduling and performing actions on GxP systems to ensure compliance to regulatory guidelines and client requirements throughout the lifecycle of the system. Systems may be comprised of multiple components including software, hardware, utilities and firmware. The Technical Laboratory Support Officer is responsible for ensuring systems uphold the principles of the raw data lifecycle as part of ensuring Data Integrity.

Your main focus as Equipment Lifecycle Engineer is to be:

Performing preventive and corrective maintenance on laboratory equipment;

Performing calibration work on utilities and laboratory equipment;

Performing validation/qualification of laboratory equipment;

Performing periodic evaluations and assessments on data integrity.

Being part of the VCM team, you are also partially responsible for:

Identifying, reporting and adequately handling malfunctions of utilities, laboratory equipment and facilities;

Adequately handling alarms reported via monitoring systems;

Training and advising colleagues in the use, maintenance, calibration and validation of utilities and laboratory equipment in accordance with the relevant procedures;

Participating in inspections and audits;

Management of new equipment (supplier selection, drafting URS), and providing documentation related to this equipment;

Initiating and (helping) solving non-conformances, out-of-specifications, changes and complaints, where applicable in collaboration with the QA team;

Creation of good system workflows in collaboration with operations departments.

Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree or higher in Life Sciences, Analytical Chemistry, or a related field.

Minimum of 1 year of experience in a QA/GMP-regulated environment.

Previous laboratory experience is a plus.

At least basic understanding of Dutch and fluent in English.

Affinity with general IT systems and proficiency in MS Office.

Additional Information

NBLSC and Eurofins: A world of possibilities

This position is open within the Business Unit NBLSC, located at the Eurofins BioPharma Product Testing Leiden site on the Leiden Bio Science Park. We have a close-knit team where collegiality and collaboration come first. We offer a responsible and challenging position within the team with room for your own ideas and input. Eurofins BioPharma Product Testing also offers:

A competitive salary;

Flexible working hours;

25 days of vacation with the option to purchase 7 additional days (based on a fulltime contract);

Travel allowance of 23 cents net per kilometer. Are you traveling by public transport? Then your travel expenses will be fully reimbursed via NS Business Card;

Participation in a pension scheme with 50% contribution by Eurofins;

Each month, you accumulate a choice budget balance of 8.5% of your gross salary. This includes, among other things, holiday pay and a year-end bonus. You can choose to have this amount paid out, or you can use it to buy extra days off, for example. You choose what suits you best;

Discount on additional health insurance;

Tax benefit via FiscFree when purchasing various products and services via your gross salary, such as a bicycle, sports contribution, fitness, mobile telephony, computers & tablets or a weekend away;

Professional training and opportunities for training and development;

Training options via the online learning platform Good Habitz.

Working at Eurofins BioPharma Product Testing offers you the flexibility and personal touch of working in a medium sized and dynamic company, whilst also allowing you to benefit from having Eurofins as a parent company. Our ambitious growth plans provide ample opportunities for our employees:

Diverse developmental opportunities within the organization;

A large client portfolio ensures a lot of diversity in your work.

More about Eurofins Scientific

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 believes it is a global leader in food, environmental, pharmaceutical and cosmetics products testing and in agroscience CRO services. It is also one of the global independent market leaders in certain testing and laboratory services for genomics, discovery pharmacology, forensics, CDMO, advanced material sciences and in the support of clinical studies.

In over just 30 years, Eurofins has grown from one laboratory in Nantes, France to over 62,000 staff across a network of more than 1000 independent companies in over 62 countries and operating more than 900 laboratories. 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, as well as providing innovative clinical diagnostic testing services, as one of the leading global emerging players in specialised clinical diagnostics testing.

In 2025, Eurofins generated total revenues of EUR € 7.296 billion, and has been among the best performing stocks in Europe over the past 20 years.

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