Analytical Laboratory Technician
| Posting date: | 06 June 2024 |
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| Salary: | £36,583 to £38,272 per year |
| Additional salary information: | Specialist Government Science & Engineering allowance - £5150 |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 30 June 2024 |
| Location: | London |
| Company: | Government Recruitment Service |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 346817/1 |
Summary
Do you care about the safety of products and want to protect people and places? Can we use your skills, knowledge and experience to enable UK business to thrive? If the answer is yes, then we would like to hear from you!
We are the Office for Product Safety and Standards (OPSS), part of the Department for Business & Trade (Previously the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy). We are here for the purpose of making regulation work to deliver real world impact. Regulation is a powerful Government tool to address market failures, influence behaviour and promote positive action. Crafted and delivered well, regulation can be an enabler of growth, innovation and efficiency.
Since early 2018 we have been building a positive and creative team that enjoys a position of influence and respect within an organisation that continues to grow, most recently with the addition of construction products regulation planned.
Our primary purpose is to protect people and places from product-related harm, ensuring consumers and businesses can buy and sell products with confidence.
Further information can be found on our website here
We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles. We embrace diversity and promote equality of opportunity. We are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. There is a guaranteed interview scheme (DCS) for people with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.
We are Inclusive.
We are fully committed to being an inclusive employer and ensuring equal opportunities. We are keen to make our workforce as diverse as possible and recognise how important inclusivity is to achieve the best outcomes. We hope to attract applications from all underrepresented groups.
We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation if required to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform crucial job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.
Our Team:
We are a multidisciplinary team of scientists and engineers delivering testing capability across the whole portfolio of OPSS regulatory requirements. The team works across our testing laboratories which include mechanical, electrical, chemical, flammability and metrology facilities. We seek to implement fit for purpose practices and procedures to deliver robust, scientific outputs. In collaboration with other internal evidence teams including those in science, engineering, research and analysis, our outputs inform the development of policy, and the delivery and enforcement of product regulations across the OPSS remit.
The Role:
We require an Analytical Laboratory Technician to manage the day-to-day operation and maintenance of specialist equipment, which predominately sits within our chemical and materials test laboratories. You will have a strong focus on providing hands on technical support for analytical instrumentation, asset management and implementing routine checks, procedures and training to ensure laboratories run efficiently and are maintained to a suitable standard. This is a key post at our newly refurbished Teddington site, working closely with our lab-based teams and reporting directly to the Laboratory Operations Manager.
The role will be based in Teddington and working arrangements will be agreed with the vacancy manager and in line with the requirements of the role. This is a laboratory based role that requires a minimum of 80% office attendance.
Job Description:
- Implementing robust scientific procedures, checks and methodologies to deliver a reliable in-house chemical and materials testing offer.
- Manage, maintain, troubleshoot and repair analytical instrumentation used for gas and liquid chromatography, mass spectrometry and microscopy.
- Prepare and manage standard operating procedures for sample preparation, method development, analysis and data acquisition.
- Manage the internal and external calibration requirements for analytical laboratory instrumentation and equipment.
- Work closely with the Health & Safety Officer to manage and maintain laboratory risk assessments.
- Develop and maintain a scientific and technical profile by attendance and participation in relevant external networks, meetings and training events.