Level 1 Core Facility Technician

City of Bristol College; Clifton; On-site; GBP 22,000 - 32,000; Full time

Job summary

The City of Bristol College invites applications for a laboratory technician based in the Biomedical Sciences Laboratories. You will be part of a core technical team supporting laboratories across the Schools of Psychology and Neuroscience, Biochemistry and Biomedical Sciences, and the Bristol Medical School.

You will perform essential core tasks, support health and safety activities, and contribute to world-class research by assisting scientists and maintaining lab spaces and equipment.

Qualifications

• Excellent interpersonal communication skills to interact with diverse stakeholders.
• Strong attention to detail and ability to follow strict SOPs and regulatory procedures.
• Willingness to be physically active, hands-on, and work as part of a team in a busy environment.

Responsibilities

• Waste collection and recycling management on a daily, weekly or monthly basis.
• Relocating and connecting gas cylinders and ensuring gas cylinder supplies.
• Maintaining equipment, organising repairs and assisting with lab equipment moves.
• Helping to prepare lab spaces and culture media for bacteria and fruit flies.
• Managing stocks, ordering consumables and answering emails.

Job description

The technical team based in the Biomedical building in the Faculty of Health and Life Sciences is looking to fill a vacancy in our core technical team.

We provide core technical support to the Schools of Psychology and Neuroscience, Biochemistry and Biomedical Sciences and the Bristol Medical School. We are looking to appoint a dynamic, hardworking and enthusiastic individual to support the delivery of our core tasks. You will belong to a wider team of about 50 technicians but will be primarily based within a local team supporting core services for the research labs and in turn supporting scientists to deliver world class research.

What will you be doing?

You will be ensuring that important cores tasks are fulfilled on a daily, weekly or monthly basis. These tasks will include things like waste collection and recycling management, relocating and connecting gas cylinders and ensuring gas cylinder supplies, maintaining equipment such as organising and assisting with repairs, helping other teams in the building when necessary, assisting with lab equipment moves and helping to prepare lab spaces, supporting preparation of simple culture media for bacteria and fruit flies, managing stocks, ordering consumables, answering emails, and many other duties as detailed further in the job description.

Health and Safety is also an important part of a technician’s role and you will be expected to support and engage and support Health and Safety activities and promote best practice to all staff and students. You will also undertake training and development activities as required by the University and also additional job-specific training. You will also attend team meetings and other technical events like the annual Technicians Conference.

You should apply if

You are interested in a scientific technical support role in higher education and want to learn and grow your technical skills, you enjoy being physically active and hands on, and being part of a team and helping people.

You thrive in a busy, varied working environment and have excellent interpersonal communication skills, being able to communicate politely and courteously to many different stakeholders as required.

You enjoy routine but also easily adapt to unexpected demands as they come in. You have a strong attention to detail, enjoy problem-solving, and the ability to follow strict regulatory procedures and standard operating procedures - all of which are essential for success in this role.

Additional information

Contract type: Open-ended

Work pattern: Full-time

Grade: D

School/Unit: Biomedical Sciences Laboratories

This advert will close at 23:59 UK time on Tuesday 29th September 2026

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