Lead Lab Team - High-Throughput Dairy Testing

ROYAL SOCIETY OF CHEMISTRY; Shrewsbury; On-site; GBP 33,000 - 35,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private medical insurance

Job summary

The Cattle Information Service is seeking two experienced Laboratory Team Leaders to support the Laboratory Manager in running a high-throughput milk testing laboratory. With state-of-the-art facilities and a UKAS 17025 accredited lab in Telford, CIS offers a strong platform for career development.

This shift-based role requires leading a small team of analysts, ensuring rapid turnaround, effective workload planning, and adherence to ISO17025, H&S, and COSHH, with weekend work and own transport

Qualifications

• Experience managing a team of analysts in an ISO accredited laboratory.
• Experience as a Senior Analyst stepping into team management.
• Strong organisational and workload planning abilities.

Responsibilities

• Managing a team of 5 Lab Assistants and Lab Analysts, supervising compositional testing of high-throughput samples.
• Overseeing daily lab operations to ensure rapid turnaround of samples and meeting deadlines.
• Managing sample workflow and ensuring adequate resource allocation.
• Identifying training needs and monitoring staff development.
• Training staff and conducting regular performance reviews.
• Maintaining ISO17025, H&S and COSHH compliance.
• Investigating and reporting out-of-spec results and writing reports.
• Maintaining calibration checks and documentation.
• Reviewing current lab processes to identify improvement areas.

Skills

Team leadership

Resource planning

Workload prioritisation

Communication skills

Attention to detail

Job description

The Cattle Information Service is seeking two experienced Laboratory Team Leaders to support the Laboratory Manager in running a high-throughput milk testing laboratory. With state-of-the-art facilities and a UKAS 17025 accredited lab in Telford, CIS offers a strong platform for career development.

This shift-based role requires leading a small team of analysts, ensuring rapid turnaround, effective workload planning, and adherence to ISO17025, H&S, and COSHH, with weekend work and own transport