Toxins Chemist x 2
| Posting date: | 14 June 2024 |
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| Salary: | £27,210 to £28,400 per year |
| Additional salary information: | New entrants are expected to start on the minimum of the pay band. |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 04 July 2024 |
| Location: | Weymouth |
| Company: | Government Recruitment Service |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 357765/1 |
Summary
You will help develop the team’s expertise and capacity through participation in associated R&D activities in analytical chemistry for food contaminants, particularly natural aquatic toxins.
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Your main duties and responsibilities will include, but are not limited to:
- Receipting and preparation of shellfish samples for testing, including shucking, box handling and dispatch.
- Extraction and analysis of shellfish for natural marine toxins.
- Shellfish extract clean-up using manual and automated solid phase extraction technologies.
- Daily operation of instrumental chemical detection tools to include quantitative high performance liquid chromatography, with various detectors.
- Major focus on the application of tandem mass spectrometry methods for lipophilic and hydrophilic marine toxins, plus cyanobacterial toxins.
- Trouble shooting of instrumentation problems, quality control and quality assurance issues.
- Assisting with investigations into performance issues and partaking in analytical research projects as requested.
- Adherence to laboratory health, safety, and environment requirements.
- Assistance with general laboratory maintenance activities (accreditation, general housekeeping, calibration of equipment, preparation of reagents) as required.
- Flexible work, responding to needs of business unit, group and/or team as and when required.
In addition, Cefas reserves the right to ask staff to take on additional duties and responsibilities which are commensurate with their grade. Team Leaders and management will have a discussion with staff to explain the changes that are to be made. A new job description will be issued if required.