Senior Technician (Fixed term)

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Biosciences, Meals, Diet & Dietetics
Location:  Sutton Bonington
Wage: 
£27,584 to £33,804
every year (pro-rata if relevant) relying on expertise and expertise. Wage development past this scale is topic to efficiency.
Closing Date:  Friday 05 April 2024
Reference:  SCI078724

Purposes are invited for the above publish primarily based inside the Faculty of Biosciences on the Sutton Bonington Campus.  

The function holder might be liable for planning and overseeing the day-to-day working of a piece space, making ready, and allocating sources, and offering supervision, steerage and instruction in using gear and methods to workers/college students within the areas of meals construction, biomaterials and meals processing educating and analysis.   They are going to be liable for the maintenance of a chosen work space, in addition to upkeep of apparatus and preparation of supplies. The function holders can even be required to help different areas inside the college the place expertise and methods of the function holder might be shared and/or utilised, or the place routine technical help is required.

Duties will embody:

• Planning and overseeing the daily working of a piece space to help analysis tasks, allocating sources, and offering steerage and instruction to workers and/or college students to make sure work aims and requirements are met.
• Supervision of undergraduate and postgraduate undertaking college students to incorporate the supply of coaching in related methods and gear.
• Utilising technical data and experience to conceptualise and interpret the necessities of analysis workers and college students.
• Advising and helping workers and college students on the event, design, preparation, building, meeting and utility of apparatus/techniques, which can embody organising of experiments/techniques and the deployment of explicit methods.
• To conduct common routine upkeep, fault analysis and restore of apparatus/ equipment personally or by others in personal space of accountability, as required, and advise, the place obligatory, on the buying of apparatus and consumables
• To supply high quality and well timed recommendation, help and practice workers and college students on the event, design, preparation, building, meeting and utility of apparatus/techniques, the organising of experiments and/or deployment of explicit methods/strategies.
• Make sure that the division complies with work associated authorized and well being and security requirements. 
• Guaranteeing workers, college students and/or new researchers are educated in methods and the secure and efficient use of apparatus to make sure compliance with related well being and security rules, together with finishing up security threat assessments.

(Full particulars may be discovered within the job description.)

Candidates will need to have a BSc in Meals Science or associated diploma, or HNC in related topic, or equal {qualifications} plus appreciable work expertise in related function, or substantial work expertise in a related function

Data of the Meals Biomaterials scientific subject and expertise working inside Meals Manufacturing Amenities could be fascinating.

It is a fastened time period, full time (36.25 hours per week) alternative out there for two years. Job share preparations could also be thought of.

For casual enquiries please e-mail Joshua Reid – [email protected] – or Gleb Yakubov – [email protected]
Please notice that functions despatched immediately to those e-mail addresses is not going to be accepted.

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