Research Technician
| Posting date: | 21 November 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £28,031 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 11 December 2025 |
| Location: | Exeter, Devon |
| Remote working: | On-site only |
| Company: | University of Exeter |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | T79844 |
Summary
This full-time position is available from 15/12/2025 on a fixed term basis to cover a maternity leave until 30/09/2026.
This position could be an opportunity for an internal secondment, with approval from your current line manager.
Please note that you need a full driving licence and ability to travel to remote field sites independently.
Summary of the role:
This role will be based in the Centre for Resilience in Environment, Water and Waste (CREWW). The primary responsibility of the role-holder is to provide a high level of technical support to academics, researchers, and postgraduate students working within CREWW. The role will primarily involve fieldwork in challenging environments, setting up, maintaining, and managing hydrological, meteorological, carbon-cycle and water quality equipment, with occasional laboratory-based work in support of colleagues. The post-holder will also be required, with support from the Technical Operations Manager to maintain resources: space; equipment and consumables and will also support health and safety and sustainability initiatives across the CREWW laboratories. We are looking for an individual with exceptional communication and time management skills, who has experience in providing professional technical support in a research field environment.
Please ensure you read the Job Description and Person Specification for full details of this role by clicking on the attachment.
Organisational context:
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 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.
This post supports the Centre for Resilience in Environment, Water and Waste (CREWW) within the Faculty of Environment, Science and Economy.
The University of Exeter
We are a member of the prestigious Russell Group of research-intensive universities and in the top 200 universities in the world (Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2024 and QS World University Ranking 2024). We combine world-class teaching with world-class research, achieving a Gold rating in the Teaching Excellence Framework Award 2023, underpinned by Gold ratings for Student Experience and Student Outcomes.
Our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Commitment
We are committed to ensuring reasonable adjustments are available for interviews and workplaces.
Whilst all applicants will be judged on merit alone, we particularly welcome applications from groups currently underrepresented within our working community.
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 new Fertility Treatment Policy
stunning campus environments in Exeter and Cornwall, in the beautiful South West of England
Further information
Please contact Dagmara Kolak, Technical Operations Manager, Centre for Resilience in Environment, Water and Waste: d.m.kolak@exeter.ac.uk
This position could be an opportunity for an internal secondment, with approval from your current line manager.
Please note that you need a full driving licence and ability to travel to remote field sites independently.
Summary of the role:
This role will be based in the Centre for Resilience in Environment, Water and Waste (CREWW). The primary responsibility of the role-holder is to provide a high level of technical support to academics, researchers, and postgraduate students working within CREWW. The role will primarily involve fieldwork in challenging environments, setting up, maintaining, and managing hydrological, meteorological, carbon-cycle and water quality equipment, with occasional laboratory-based work in support of colleagues. The post-holder will also be required, with support from the Technical Operations Manager to maintain resources: space; equipment and consumables and will also support health and safety and sustainability initiatives across the CREWW laboratories. We are looking for an individual with exceptional communication and time management skills, who has experience in providing professional technical support in a research field environment.
Please ensure you read the Job Description and Person Specification for full details of this role by clicking on the attachment.
Organisational context:
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 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.
This post supports the Centre for Resilience in Environment, Water and Waste (CREWW) within the Faculty of Environment, Science and Economy.
The University of Exeter
We are a member of the prestigious Russell Group of research-intensive universities and in the top 200 universities in the world (Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2024 and QS World University Ranking 2024). We combine world-class teaching with world-class research, achieving a Gold rating in the Teaching Excellence Framework Award 2023, underpinned by Gold ratings for Student Experience and Student Outcomes.
Our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Commitment
We are committed to ensuring reasonable adjustments are available for interviews and workplaces.
Whilst all applicants will be judged on merit alone, we particularly welcome applications from groups currently underrepresented within our working community.
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 new Fertility Treatment Policy
stunning campus environments in Exeter and Cornwall, in the beautiful South West of England
Further information
Please contact Dagmara Kolak, Technical Operations Manager, Centre for Resilience in Environment, Water and Waste: d.m.kolak@exeter.ac.uk
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