Laboratory Team Leader

ABN Feeds; England; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading agricultural company in Wolverhampton is seeking a Laboratory Team Leader to oversee laboratory operations and manage staff. The role involves ensuring compliance with standard operating procedures (SOPs) and providing guidance to the team. Candidates should have experience in the science industry and strong leadership skills. The role offers a competitive salary starting from £32,016, along with various benefits and career development opportunities.

Benefits

Flexible benefits

Annual salary reviews

Incentive bonus

Qualifications

• Background within the science or related industry.
• Demonstrable leadership skills and ability to motivate a team.
• Strong communication skills to build internal and external relationships.

Responsibilities

• Manage workflow through Laboratory departments efficiently.
• Line manage Laboratory staff and ensure SOP adherence.
• Train laboratory staff in new methods and amendments.

Skills

Leadership skills

Organisational skills

Communication skills

Project management

Education

Experience in science or related industry

Job description

Overview

Job Title: Laboratory Team Leader

Location: Wolverhampton, Staffordshire, UK

Contract and Shift: Permanent Thursday - Saturday 10am - 6pm, Sunday 7.30am - 3.30pm, Monday 7.30am - 3.00pm

Package includes: Salary from £32,016, access to flexible benefits that support your development, wellbeing and everyday life.

About The Role

The Laboratory Team Leader will provide guidance, instruction, direction and leadership to a team of laboratory technicians. They will have the purpose of managing the processes involved in registering and analysing samples and authorising results in accordance with customers agreed service levels. Carrying out your duties you will be required to work a shift consisting of five days on including weekends with two days off during the week. From time-to-time training and cover may be required during the laboratory’s operational times on the night shift.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage the workflow through the various Laboratory departments during the day to ensure resources are used as efficiently as possible.
• Line Manage Laboratory Staff.
• Ensure samples are registered, tested and results entered in accordance with SOPs and working practices.
• To train all laboratory staff in new laboratory methods and amendments to existing ones.
• Assist the Quality Unit in maintaining training records for all Laboratory Technicians.
• Assist the laboratory’s aim for UKAS accreditation according to the timescale set by Laboratory Management.

Knowledge And Skills Required

• Experience and a background within the science or related industry.
• Effective and demonstrable leadership skills.
• Ability to motivate a team to achieve an end goal.
• Excellent organisational skills.
• Strong communication skills to build relationships with internal and external stakeholders within the laboratory function.
• Excellent project management skills.
• Ability to control and develop employee training experiences.

About The Company

Decoding milk data, building robust insights.

When you join us, you'll do meaningful work and be rewarded fairly for it. From annual salary reviews and incentive bonus, ongoing career development and enhanced family, financial and wellbeing benefits - these are just some of the ways we reward you - from day one.

About Us

We’re National Milk Records (NMR) a part of the AB Agri community committed to investing in an innovative range of milk quality, herd health and genomic testing services, generating data and building robust insights that empower farmers to make informed decisions on cow productivity.

We’re part of AB Agri, the agricultural division of Associated British Foods (ABF plc) and we’re passionate about feeding the world responsibly and affordably by making quality animal feed, creating nutrition and technology-based products, and offering data services for the agri-food industry.

Application Notes

We hope you feel that AB Agri is somewhere you can thrive and so we’d love to hear from you. We get a lot of applications for our roles and sometimes need to close the process early so register your details and upload your CV via our careers website as soon as you can - it will only take a few minutes. When you do, we’ll ask you some equal opportunities questions just to ensure our recruitment process is inclusive - or show us areas we can improve. This information is anonymised, separate from your application and is never seen by the hiring panel. You can choose not to answer these questions, and this won’t affect your application.

Apply today or contact our recruitment team for more information.

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