Location: | Bath |
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Salary: | £31,236 to £37,694 Grade 6 |
Hours: | Full Time |
Contract Type: | Permanent |
Placed On: | 22nd August 2025 |
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Closes: | 14th September 2025 |
Job Ref: | CH12980 |
About the role
The Department of Chemical Engineering seeks to appoint a highly skilled, adaptable and self-motivated Senior Teaching & Research Laboratory Technician to provide technical support in its teaching and research laboratories.
You will be responsible for assisting the Technical Supervisor in the organisation, co-ordination and maintenance of a variety of equipment in our teaching and research laboratories. You will assume responsibility for a number of administrative tasks supporting the Technical Supervisor and wider technical team, such as ordering (including keeping records of expenditure on specific grant codes), liaising with Estates and external contractors, setting up and maintaining service contracts for equipment and maintaining up to date inventories of equipment.
These duties are in addition to the general responsibilities of Chemical Engineering technical staff, who provide advice, instruction and services in analytical and instrumentation techniques to staff and students across the Department and the Faculty of Engineering and Design.
About you
Ideally applicants will hold a first degree in a science-based discipline and/or have considerable experience of working in a teaching or research laboratory environment and the use of related equipment and facilities
Further Information
This full-time post is offered on a full time (36.5 hours per week) permanent basis.
The position requires full time attendance on campus, hybrid and home working is not applicable to this post.
For informal enquiries, please contact either Rebecca Sie, Technical Manager on 01225 387273 e-mail rs3327@bath.ac.uk or Sarah Hunter, Technical Supervisor, e-mail seh77@bath.ac.uk
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