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Senior Teaching Lab Technician (108696-0425)

University of Warwick

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Job summary

The University of Warwick is seeking a Senior Teaching Lab Technician to support the School of Life Sciences. This role involves leading technical staff, ensuring health and safety compliance, and enhancing the undergraduate experience through effective laboratory support. Candidates should have relevant technical service experience and a commitment to fostering an inclusive educational environment.

Benefits

Attractive pension scheme

26 days holiday plus Christmas closure

Learning and development opportunities

Generous parental leave policy

Onsite childcare facilities

Flexible working options

Qualifications

Experience in delivering complex technical services to busy teaching laboratories.
Ability to contribute to health and safety management systems.

Responsibilities

Lead technical staff in preparing materials and equipment for laboratory classes.
Liaise with academic leads and coordinators to ensure successful outcomes.

Skills

Technical service delivery

Health and safety management

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About The Role

For informal enquiries, please contact Dr. Linda Cheung (Teaching Lab Manager) L.H.Y.Cheung@warwick.ac.uk

We have an exciting opportunity for a talented and motivated individual to join the technical services team supporting the School of Life Sciences at the University of Warwick.

Reporting to the Teaching Laboratory Manager, the postholder will be tasked with leading technical staff in the preparation of materials and equipment for the delivery of laboratory-based support for practical classes to ensure that our undergraduates receive an excellent experience, awakening their excitement for careers in the life sciences domain.

The postholder will be expected to liaise with academic laboratory leads, laboratory coordinators and the student support team, under the direction of the teaching laboratory manager, to deliver a successful outcome.

About You

The successful candidate will have experience of the delivery of a complex technical service to busy teaching laboratories. The postholder should also be able to contribute to a robust health and safety management system, working closely with the teaching laboratory manager and the local H&S team.

This role offers an exciting opportunity as the school embarks on an ambitious curriculum review allowing the post-holder the opportunity to contribute to developments surrounding practical teaching of undergraduates.

For further information regarding the skills required for this role please see the personal specification section of the attached job description.

About The Department

School of Life Sciences

For further information about the School of Life Sciences please see our website at http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/lifesci

We believe that collegiality, openness, inclusivity and diversity are essential for an excellent environment; this ethic has enabled us to gain an Athena SWAN Silver award. We are dedicated to building a diverse and inclusive workplace, so if you are excited by this role, we encourage you to apply, even if your past experience does not match exactly. We also encourage applications from all groups with protected characteristics.

About The University

Born in the 60s with a mindset of boldness, imagination and collaboration, the University of Warwick is a world-leading research-intensive university with the highest academic and research standards. We’re one of the world’s top universities, ranked 67th in the world and 10th in the UK*, with 92% of our research assessed to be ‘world leading or internationally excellent’**.

You'll be joining a diverse, innovative and globally connected community committed to igniting real world progress. Here at Warwick, we offer you opportunities to follow your ambitions as long as you bring the energy and determination to succeed.

QS World University Rankings 2024
Research Excellence Framework 2021

To find out more about us visit our website.

How to Apply

CLOSING DATE: Tuesday 10th June 2025 at 23:55 (BST)

To apply, please click ‘Apply’ below and submit an application form by the closing date.

Please plan for any potential delays as you will not be able to submit an application form past this deadline (even if you opened the form at, say, 23:30).

You will have to attach a CV and a cover letter.

Your CV should include your employment history (including your most recent employment), your education history, and any other relevant experience.
Your cover letter should explain your motivations for applying to the role. It should also explain, using examples, how you meet each of the essential and desirable criteria detailed in the Job Description PDF document below. Please note that all essential criteria must be met by candidates who are invited to interview.

Please see here for guidance on writing a cover letter. We highly recommend using individual criteria as headers and explaining below, using examples, how you meet the criterion, though you are free to format the letter as you wish.

To streamline our hiring processes, we can only accept applications submitted via our official careers webpage, warwick-careers.tal.net.

Interview Date: To be confirmed
Start Date: As soon as possible

What we Offer

We will provide you with a great range of benefits, which include an attractive pension scheme, 26 days holiday plus Christmas closure, excellent learning and development opportunities, and savings on a wide range of products and services. We offer a generous maternity/paternity/adoption/parental leave policy, and onsite childcare facilities.

We recognise the importance of a healthy work/life balance and offer you access to flexible working, for more information click here.

We are proud to say that we are a Living Wage employer.

Our Commitment to Inclusion

Warwick is committedto building an organisation ofmutual respectanddignity, promoting awelcoming, diverse, and inclusive workingand learning environment. We recognise that everyone is different in a variety of visible and non-visible ways, and that those differences are to berecognised, respected, and valued. Where possible, we go beyond legislation to provide a place where everyone can thrive, supporting all staff to achieve their full potential. We aspire to remove economic, social, and cultural barriers that may otherwise prevent people from succeeding.

We therefore welcome and encourage applications from all communities regardless of culture, background, age, disability, sex/gender, gender identity or expression, ethnicity, religion/belief, or sexual or romantic orientation. To find out more about our social inclusion work at Warwick visit our webpageshere.

The University currently holds aRace Equality Charter Bronze Award,Athena Swan Sliver Awardand aDisability Smart Bronze Award.Further information on all of the University's Awards and Accreditations can be found here. The University of Warwick is also one of the six founder institutions of theEUTOPIA European University Alliance.

Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS)

The University of Warwick is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all those we work with.

In line with the DBS Code of Practice, the successful candidates for any roles involving regulated activity, will be subject to a DBS check at the appropriate level. The University will take all necessary measures to ensure that any individual subject to a barring order does not undertake any work with the barred group specified (i.e. children and/or adults).

We expect all employees, volunteers, and partners to share our commitment to safeguarding.

Rehabilitation of Ex-Offenders

The University undertakes not to discriminate against anyone who makes a disclosure relating to a conviction. The information disclosed at application stage is only visible to the central DBS team (i.e. not recruiting managers) to ensure there is no bias during the shortlisting process.

Job Description

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Right to Work in the UK

We wish to advise applicants that this role is not eligible for sponsorship for a Skilled Worker visa. If you do not yet have the right to work in the UK you will need to check the UK Government Website to see if you are eligible to obtain the right to work in the UK through one of the other UK immigration routes before you make your application.

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