Lab Technician

Nucleus Capital I. GMBH; Berlin; Vor Ort; EUR 45.000 - 60.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

An innovative climate-tech startup in Berlin is seeking a Lab Technician to oversee lab operations, manage procurement, and ensure data reliability. Candidates must have 3+ years of lab experience and a technical diploma or relevant degree. The role offers competitive compensation, stock options, and a fast-paced collaborative environment, dedicated to tackling climate change.

Leistungen

Unique climate-tech project experience

Employee stock options

Flexible working hours

Subsidized BVG ticket

Regular team events

Qualifikationen

• 3+ years of hands-on experience in a laboratory setting, focusing on lab management.
• Familiarity with preparing solutions and handling chemicals.
• Strong organizational skills for lab record-keeping.

Aufgaben

• Manage daily lab organization and procurement.
• Ensure dependable instrumentation performance through calibration and maintenance.
• Contribute to onboarding new team members.

Kenntnisse

Laboratory management

Problem-solving

Attention to detail

Data interpretation

Safety awareness

Ausbildung

Technical diploma or Bachelor’s degree in Chemistry or related fields

Tools

Basic lab equipment

Jobbeschreibung

Your mission

As our Lab Technician, your mission is to keep our Berlin lab running safely, efficiently, and with scientific precision. You’ll take ownership of organizing daily workflows, managing procurement, and maintaining our analytical and process instruments in top condition. You’ll be a key pillar for our analytical work, ensuring the data we produce is reliable, high-quality, and trusted across the team. At Ucaneo, you’ll grow in a space that values ownership, innovation, and continuous learning, tackling new challenges that drive our Direct Air Capture technology forward and help build a cleaner, data-driven future.

Key Responsibilities

• Operations – ownership of daily lab organization, procurement, inventory management, and compliant waste handling.
• Growth – contribution to scaling the lab’s capabilities through onboarding new team members, supporting setup of new instruments, and fostering a culture of learning and collaboration across engineering and science teams.
• Reliability – ensuring dependable instrumentation performance through regular calibration and maintenance, and safeguarding the accuracy and consistency of experimental data that underpin trusted results.
• Safety – upholding and continuously improving lab safety standards while promoting accountability and best practices across the team.

Your profile

Skills and Experience

• Technical diploma, Bachelor’s degree, or relevant certification in Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, or a related fields
• 3+ years of hands‑on experience in a laboratory setting, with a focus on lab management and organization.
• Familiarity with basic lab equipment and processes, including preparing solutions and handling chemicals.
• Basic understanding of data interpretation, calibration records, and quality assurance principles to ensure data reliability.
• Safety Awareness: Demonstrated commitment to maintaining safe lab practices and compliance with relevant safety standards.
• Strong organizational skills and meticulous attention to detail in lab record‑keeping and maintenance.

Workstyle and Culture

• Quick learner with the ability to grasp complex concepts rapidly.
• Collaborative team player with a hands‑on approach.
• Genuine, self‑aware, and reflective in actions and decisions.
• Highly organized with a structured work style to maintain focus and drive results.
• Active listener and clear communicator within cross‑functional teams.
• Curious and open‑minded.

Other

• Valid Work Permit for Germany, or able to obtain a permit.

Benefits

• Unique experience contributing to a first‑of‑a‑kind climate‑tech project (tFOAK).
• A steep learning curve, exposure to cross‑functional challenges, and the ability to shape a project from the ground up.
• Fast‑paced, collaborative environment where your decisions have a real impact.
• Competitive compensation and personal growth opportunities.
• Employee stock options
• Flexible working hours
• Regular team events
• Subsidized BVG ticket
• Laptop and your individual work set up

About us

We are an early startup with a big vision - remove 500 million tons of global CO2 emissions from the air by 2035 through Direct Air Capture, roughly the same weight as all humans on earth combined!

To meet our climate targets the reduction of CO2 emissions is not enough, the world actively has to remove billions of tons of CO2 from our atmosphere. To achieve that we at Ucaneo develop an innovative electrochemical Direct Air Capture technology mimicking the human lung to remove CO2 from ambient air.

We are a science and mission‑driven team, fast‑moving with a break‑or‑make attitude. Our office and industrial hall is located at Schwarze‑Pumpe‑Weg 16, 12681 Berlin including a large outdoor area to build one of the largest industrial DAC plants in Germany.

Our commitment to you:

• Impact: You will work on the biggest problem of our time, climate change, with the potential to impact the lives of billions of people
• Day to day: Full responsibility to design your own workstream and control your working hours with a very high degree of freedom, flat hierarchy and teamwork
• Professional growth: Join a disruptive high‑growth tech startup from day 1 and grow / lead a high‑performing team