Production Worker Horticulture Samples

At Eurofins, we find it important that you can get the best out of yourself. Therefore, we offer a varied position in a professional, collegial work environment, with plenty of opportunities to develop yourself. In addition, you can count on:

• A suitable salary of at least € 2,851 and at most € 3,180 gross per month, depending on education and experience and based on full-time employment;
• An appointment for at least 32 hours per week;
• 8% holiday allowance and a year-end bonus of 0.75%;
• A good pension and leave scheme with 25 vacation days and 10 ADV days based on full-time employment;
• Training and career growth opportunities;
• Extras such as an individual choice budget and a sports and bicycle plan;
• An employment contract for 12 months, with the intention to convert this to a permanent contract.

Do you want to contribute to healthy crops and sustainable horticulture with your hands and an eye for detail? At Eurofins Agro in Wageningen, you ensure that every horticulture sample is carefully and promptly ready for analysis. In this way, you help growers quickly obtain reliable results that allow them to work smarter and more sustainably. You will join an organization with innovative techniques, plenty of development opportunities, and approximately 320 colleagues in Wageningen. At this location, we perform 700,000 analyses annually; additionally, Eurofins has 11 other branches in the Netherlands. 

No two days are exactly the same. You work according to clear quality regulations and ensure that every sample follows the correct route through the process. Your duties include:

• receiving and checking horticulture samples;
• scanning, coding, sorting, and distributing samples per analysis;
• registering actions in our automated systems;
• identifying and setting aside deviating or incorrectly submitted samples;
• moistening, pre-treating, and filtering samples according to fixed instructions;
• assembling and sequencing sample sets for the laboratory.

The fun challenge of every workday? All samples that come in, we process as efficiently as possible, so that the results can be reported on the same day. This is only possible through good cooperation, dividing the work smartly, and helping each other when necessary. This is how we combine quality and tempo and together deliver a reliable performance every day. During peak periods, you help colleagues within the process where necessary. Depending on the season, you may occasionally also be deployed to another Business Unit.