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Eurofins Lean and Automation Manager in Nantes, France
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.
As a Lean and Automation Manager, you will play a key role in driving efficiency and performance across various teams. By working closely with stakeholders, you will develop and implement an operational excellence strategy that enhances productivity and streamlines processes. Your ability to identify, analyze, and optimize existing workflows will be essential in improving overall business performance.
Leading continuous improvement initiatives, you will apply Lean, Six Sigma, and other performance-enhancing methodologies to drive meaningful change. By supporting teams in adopting best practices, you will ensure that employees develop the necessary skills to utilize improvement tools effectively. Your responsibilities will also include monitoring key performance indicators, identifying trends, and proposing corrective actions when needed.
Staying up to date with industry innovations and best practices, you will continuously seek new ways to improve processes and implement the latest advancements in operational excellence. Through effective collaboration and communication, you will foster a culture of continuous improvement, ensuring that efficiency and quality remain at the forefront of business operations.
To succeed in this role, you should have a strong educational background, holding a Master’s degree in Engineering, Production Management, Industrial Management, or a related field. Your experience in continuous improvement, Lean Management, or Operational Excellence will provide you with the expertise needed to lead impactful initiatives.
A deep understanding of Lean methodologies, Six Sigma, Kaizen, and 5S will allow you to apply structured approaches to process optimization. Your strong analytical skills and project management experience will enable you to assess current operations, identify opportunities for improvement, and successfully implement solutions.
Your ability to manage change and communicate effectively will be essential in gaining team buy-in and ensuring smooth transitions. Strong leadership skills and the capacity to bring teams together around improvement initiatives will be key to driving success in this role.
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 ca. 63,000 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.