Research Technician (maternity cover)

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.

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

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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