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Assistant Technician
| Posting date: | 20 February 2025 |
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| Salary: | £26,257 per year |
| Additional salary information: | Generous holiday allowances, flexible working, pension scheme. |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 06 March 2025 |
| Location: | Exeter, Devon |
| Remote working: | On-site only |
| Company: | University of Exeter |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | P97064 |
Summary
Research Services - Technical Strategy & Operations
This full-time post is available immediately on a permanent basis
Summary of the role
A permanent full-time Assistant Technician is required at the University of Exeter, on Streatham Campus. The post will be based across Hatherly and Washington Singer Laboratories, covering a variety of disciplines including labs from Clinical and Biomedical Sciences, Biosciences, Geography and Psychology departments. The successful candidate will work as part of the technical team to carry out a range of key technical duties to support academic staff, researchers and students working in class I and II research laboratories, with facilities for electrophysiology, neurosciences, fire and marine sciences, tissue culture, microbiology, microscopy, biochemistry, and animal behaviour studies.
Activities in Hatherly and Washington Singer Laboratories are currently enjoying significant expansion with many new research groups joining the labs in the buildings; it’s therefore an exciting time to join this dynamic, highly motivated and award-winning team. The successful applicant can expect to acquire a vast range of diverse skills to complement the ones they bring to the team.
Please ensure you read the Job Description and Person Specification for full details of this role by clicking on the attachment.
Research Service Division
The University of Exeter has grown its research activity significantly over the two decades and, since joining the Russell Group of research-intensive universities in 2012, has made a step change in its research income and earnings performance, research quality, numbers of research students and knowledge exchange activities. The Research Services Division is a key enabler to the delivery of the University’s Strategy 2030, the Research and Impact Strategy, successful REF performances, and meeting research income targets.
This role is within the Technical Strategy & Operations part of the Division. We are research and teaching technical staff across the entirety of the University of Exeter. We work in specialist areas across the University and beyond, undertaking and supporting research and teaching and promoting compliance and best practice, in the labs, studios, workshops, and field.
The service is comprised of a team of talented individuals who support our teaching and research, and in training the next generation of top scientists. Our technical roles, which include experimental officers, laboratory technicians and research technicians, all focus on different aspects of science and humanities - from mechanical/electrical engineering, medicine and health, life sciences, social sciences, film, drama & communications, physics, geology and geography, and so much more.
We are proud signatories of the Technician Commitment, working to raise the visibility, recognition, career development and sustainability of technical careers. We are also proud signatories of the Armed Forces Covenant and welcome applications from service people to work in our operationally focused service. This role forms part of our Technical Career Pathway.
Our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Commitment
We are committed to ensuring reasonable adjustments are available for interviews and workplaces.
Benefits
We offer some fantastic benefits including:
- 39 days leave per year
- options for flexible working
- numerous discounts at leading retailers
- onsite gyms on all of our campus’ and a cycle to work scheme
- sector leading policies around maternity, adoption and shared parental leave (up to 26 weeks full pay), paternity leave (up to six weeks full pay) and a Fertility Treatment Policy
- stunning campus environments in Exeter and Cornwall, in the beautiful South West of England
Further information
Please contact Agnieszka Kaczmar, A.Kaczmar2@exeter.ac.uk, or Dr Garrick Taylor, G.F.Taylor@exeter.ac.uk, for informal enquiries about the role.
Please be advised that due to the minimum salary thresholds imposed by the UKVI, this post will not qualify for university sponsorship under the Skilled Worker visa route. If you are a migrant worker, you will need to ensure you have a visa which permits the right to work in the UK. Further details can be found on the Home Office website - https://www.gov.uk/browse/visas-immigration/work-visas. If you are an existing Skilled Worker visa holder, we may be able to sponsor and will review the transitional arrangements - https://www.gov.uk/skilled-worker-visa/certificate-of-sponsorship-before-4-april-2024
This full-time post is available immediately on a permanent basis
Summary of the role
A permanent full-time Assistant Technician is required at the University of Exeter, on Streatham Campus. The post will be based across Hatherly and Washington Singer Laboratories, covering a variety of disciplines including labs from Clinical and Biomedical Sciences, Biosciences, Geography and Psychology departments. The successful candidate will work as part of the technical team to carry out a range of key technical duties to support academic staff, researchers and students working in class I and II research laboratories, with facilities for electrophysiology, neurosciences, fire and marine sciences, tissue culture, microbiology, microscopy, biochemistry, and animal behaviour studies.
Activities in Hatherly and Washington Singer Laboratories are currently enjoying significant expansion with many new research groups joining the labs in the buildings; it’s therefore an exciting time to join this dynamic, highly motivated and award-winning team. The successful applicant can expect to acquire a vast range of diverse skills to complement the ones they bring to the team.
Please ensure you read the Job Description and Person Specification for full details of this role by clicking on the attachment.
Research Service Division
The University of Exeter has grown its research activity significantly over the two decades and, since joining the Russell Group of research-intensive universities in 2012, has made a step change in its research income and earnings performance, research quality, numbers of research students and knowledge exchange activities. The Research Services Division is a key enabler to the delivery of the University’s Strategy 2030, the Research and Impact Strategy, successful REF performances, and meeting research income targets.
This role is within the Technical Strategy & Operations part of the Division. We are research and teaching technical staff across the entirety of the University of Exeter. We work in specialist areas across the University and beyond, undertaking and supporting research and teaching and promoting compliance and best practice, in the labs, studios, workshops, and field.
The service is comprised of a team of talented individuals who support our teaching and research, and in training the next generation of top scientists. Our technical roles, which include experimental officers, laboratory technicians and research technicians, all focus on different aspects of science and humanities - from mechanical/electrical engineering, medicine and health, life sciences, social sciences, film, drama & communications, physics, geology and geography, and so much more.
We are proud signatories of the Technician Commitment, working to raise the visibility, recognition, career development and sustainability of technical careers. We are also proud signatories of the Armed Forces Covenant and welcome applications from service people to work in our operationally focused service. This role forms part of our Technical Career Pathway.
Our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Commitment
We are committed to ensuring reasonable adjustments are available for interviews and workplaces.
Benefits
We offer some fantastic benefits including:
- 39 days leave per year
- options for flexible working
- numerous discounts at leading retailers
- onsite gyms on all of our campus’ and a cycle to work scheme
- sector leading policies around maternity, adoption and shared parental leave (up to 26 weeks full pay), paternity leave (up to six weeks full pay) and a Fertility Treatment Policy
- stunning campus environments in Exeter and Cornwall, in the beautiful South West of England
Further information
Please contact Agnieszka Kaczmar, A.Kaczmar2@exeter.ac.uk, or Dr Garrick Taylor, G.F.Taylor@exeter.ac.uk, for informal enquiries about the role.
Please be advised that due to the minimum salary thresholds imposed by the UKVI, this post will not qualify for university sponsorship under the Skilled Worker visa route. If you are a migrant worker, you will need to ensure you have a visa which permits the right to work in the UK. Further details can be found on the Home Office website - https://www.gov.uk/browse/visas-immigration/work-visas. If you are an existing Skilled Worker visa holder, we may be able to sponsor and will review the transitional arrangements - https://www.gov.uk/skilled-worker-visa/certificate-of-sponsorship-before-4-april-2024
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