Lab Administrator

Refresco Group; Bath; On-site; GBP 22,000 - 28,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual bonus

Annual pay review

Early finish on a Friday

28 days annual leave + bank holidays

Life assurance

Employee referral scheme

GroceryAid support

Job summary

Refresco is seeking a Laboratory Administrator in Bridgwater to provide full administration support to the Laboratory Team and Manager. You will coordinate sample collection, manage lab records and inventory, and support reports and data management across in-house systems.

The role focuses on accuracy, timely communication, and maintaining compliance with safety and quality standards. Based in Bridgwater with standard Monday–Thursday 8:30am–5:00pm and Friday 8:30am–4:00pm hours, it offers a

Qualifications

• Organised and reliable with strong administrative skills.
• Ability to manage multiple tasks and maintain accurate records.
• Proactive, good communicator, able to work independently or in a team.

Responsibilities

• Manage laboratory administration, ensuring records, files, reports and archives are up to date and accessible.
• Coordinate collection, preparation and shipment of samples, ensuring on-time dispatch and courier management.
• Oversee laboratory consumables and stock levels, raise purchase orders and monitor inventory.
• Liaise with suppliers, customers, labs and internal teams to ensure effective communication and service.
• Produce and maintain management reports and submission documentation with accuracy and timeliness.
• Support a safe, compliant working environment by following Health & Safety, Environmental and Food Safety policies.

Skills

Organisational skills

Administrative skills

Attention to detail

Communication skills

Teamwork

Job description

counselling Cheers access to our award winning benefits platform offering discounts, free perks, and well-being tools for all employees Free onsite parking, and discounted products

About the Role

To provide full administration support for the Laboratory Team and Laboratory Manager. Provide additional administrative support to other Technical Management members and the Factory Quality Managers. Here are your key tasks and responsibilities as Laboratory Administrator at Refresco:

• Manage laboratory administration, ensuring all records, files, reports, and archived documentation are accurate, up to date, and easily accessible to support operational and compliance requirements.


• Coordinate the collection, preparation, and shipment of customer, internal, and external laboratory samples, ensuring all samples are dispatched on schedule and courier activities are effectively managed.


• Oversee laboratory consumables and stock control, monitoring inventory levels, raising purchase orders, managing


• Liaise with suppliers, customers, laboratories, and internal departments including Purchasing, Finance, Planning, and Technical teams to ensure effective communication, issue resolution, and service excellence.


• Produce and maintain management reports, sample submission documentation, end-of-month reporting, and other laboratory data records, ensuring accuracy, timeliness, and effective use of in‑house systems and databases.


• Support a safe, compliant, and efficient working environment by adhering to Health & Safety, Environmental, Food Safety, Hygiene, and Company policies while demonstrating Refresco's values of being Entrepreneurial, Agile, Responsible, Excellent, and Passionate.

Location & Working Hours

Laboratory Administrator Bridgwater
Monday Thursday 8:30am 5pm, Friday 8:30am 4pm
Permanent

Reward & Benefits

• Annual bonus


• Annual pay review


• Early finish on a Friday


• 28 days annual leave + bank holidays


• Purchase up to an additional 3 days holidays


• Life assurance


• Employee referral scheme - earn a bonus for referring your friends or family


• GroceryAid a support service offering financial, legal, wellbeing and practical support, advice and deliveries, and maintaining continuous supply to support laboratory operations

About You

• You are an organised and reliable individual with strong administrative skills and attention to detail.


• You can manage multiple tasks, work effectively with colleagues and external contacts, and maintain accurate records in a fast‑paced environment.


• A proactive approach, good communication skills, and the ability to work independently as well as part of a team are essential for success in this role.

Ultimately, we encourage everyone to role model our core values of agility, responsibility, passion, excellence, and entrepreneurship as we believe these are what has made Refresco successful so far.

Find out more about the Refresco Values here:

About Refresco

Refresco is the global independent beverage solutions provider for Global, National and Emerging brands, and retailers with production in Europe, North America, and Australia. Refresco offers an extensive range of product and packaging combinations from juices to carbonated soft drinks and mineral waters in carton, PET, Aseptic PET, cans, and glass. Refresco continuously searches for new and alternative ways to improve the quality of its products and packaging combinations in line with consumer and customer demand, environmental responsibilities, and market demand. Refresco is headquartered in Rotterdam, the Netherlands and has more than 13,500 employees. www.refresco.com. Our drinks on every table. That's the Refresco vision. We're a global business and currently produce 12 billion liters of soft drinks from 64 manufacturing plants in 12 countries and we're only just getting started. We're the proud owners of six drinks manufacturing sites within the UK. Our UK business provides a great place to work for over 1,800 employees, who produce private label soft drinks and fruit juices for all the leading retailers. Whether it's packed in cartons, bottles or cans, we ensure that our products are made to the highest quality standards. Our products get where they need to be when they need to get there to meet the needs of our high‑profile customers.

Refresco believes that equal opportunity for all is fundamental to our company's values and all our applicants can expect fairness and transparency in our recruitment process.

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