Senior Technician

About us

The Centre for Oral Clinical & Translational Sciences, within King’s College London’s Faculty of Dentistry, Oral & Craniofacial Sciences, has a vacancy for a Biomaterials technician to run a busy research laboratory.

The centre caters for undergraduate and postgraduate research studies, specialising in healthcare technologies, and the successful candidate will be an experienced user of a range of technologies including mechanical testing and chemical characterization techniques.

The centre is located at King's College London’s Guy’s Campus at London Bridge. 

About the role

A biomaterials laboratory specialist is required for the management, maintenance and operation of the biomaterials laboratory for the user community. They should have knowledge in mechanical, thermal and general biomaterials equipment testing, ideally with an engineering background. The role holder will report to the Technical Operations Manager of Floor 17 of Guy’s Tower, where the centre’s laboratories are housed. Additionally, there will be a component to the role involving helping maintain the dental teaching Phantom Head models in the Floor 20 undergraduate laboratory.

Key responsibilities and objectives of the role include the provision of day to day management, maintenance and operation of the Biomaterials laboratory for the user community. This will include safety oversight for all new postgraduate and undergraduate students starting research projects in the laboratory including inductions and generation of relevant H&S documents appropriate to their projects, as well as giving general lab training for users to ensure competence prior to commencement of their work.

The role holder will also ensure maintenance of equipment, using either their own knowledge or through contractor engagement, and will work collaboratively with other members of the faculty’s technical team to provide a cohesive support base for all laboratory users

The role holder will become expert in managing specialist equipment access e.g. fatigue and static loading machines, thermal analysis equipment, operating highly specialized machinery such as TA (Bose) testing machines, lnstron testing machines, DMA, DSC and FTIR equipment.

The role will involve maintaining close links with our partner Trusts (e.g. GSTT Medical Physics workshops) to develop tools and jigs for use in the centre’s laboratories.

The individual will need to be able to interact and deal with a variety of personalities, and also to support post graduate teaching practicals if directed to do so. This will include liaising with Principal Investigators, the faculty’s Resources Manager and Estates to ensure the facility environment is maintained to an optimal state, as well as working with the Faculty Safety Manager, to ensure that health and safety policies, systems and procedures are implemented effectively, including COSHH, risk assessments and SOPs.

This is a full time post (35 Hours per week), and you will be offered an indefinite contract

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