Senior Technician – Analytical Science - K1208

Caresoft Global Limited; Reading; On-site; GBP 26,000 - 37,000; Full time

Job summary

Caresoft Global Limited is seeking a Senior Technician – Analytical Science in Reading. The role requires hands-on support for laboratory operation, planning and conducting experiments, and analyzing results under guidance. The candidate will participate in project work and ensure compliance with standards.

The position emphasizes maintaining equipment, reporting data accurately, and working in an analytical lab environment with a graduate-level scientific background.

Qualifications

• Degree in a scientific subject.
• Some experience working in a lab environment.
• Graduate degree with prior Analytical lab exposure.
• Hands-on lab work experience; IC/HPLC experience desirable; familiarity with QC systems.

Responsibilities

• You provide hands-on assistance to support the operation and goals of the laboratory by planning and conducting experiments and applying your understanding to analyze results. With guidance, you plan and implement assigned projects.
• You will perform a range of analyses, prepare and maintain standard equipment and chemicals required for running of an analytical laboratory, support laboratory activities while ensuring compliance to the appropriate internal and external standards, and capture and report data with technical rigor and accuracy.
• Maintain a clean, tidy and safe working environment and be proficient in generic and specific software packages.

Skills

Teamwork

Problem solving

Equipment maintenance

Technical understanding

Data recording

Lab work

Analytical lab experience

Education

Degree in a scientific subject

Job description

Senior Technician – Analytical Science

Location: Reading (RG6 6LA)

Rate: £23.03ph Umbrella(Inside IR35)

Employment Type: Contract (05/09/2027)

Hours: Standard 36 Hours Per Week, Monday-Friday, 9am-5pm

Reference: K1208

You provide hands-on assistance to support the operation and goals of the laboratory by planning and conducting experiments and applying your understanding to analyze results. With guidance, you plan and implement assigned projects.

What you will bring:

• A desire to drive your future and accelerate your career and the following experience and knowledge:
• Working on teams and independently with the guidance of more senior team members
• Proactively identifying problems and assisting in creating and implementing solutions
• Maintaining equipment to ensure they are always operable
• Applying your technical understanding of equipment to support laboratory operations
• Recording and reporting data and activity outcome accurately
• Working in laboratories
• Relevant industry and/or academic experience

Responsibilities:

You provide hands-on assistance to support the operation and goals of the laboratory by planning and conducting experiments and applying your understanding to analyze results. With guidance, you plan and implement assigned projects.

How you will contribute

You will perform a range of analyses, prepare and maintain standard equipment and chemicals required for running of an analytical laboratory, support laboratory activities while ensuring compliance to the appropriate internal and external standards, and capture and report data with technical rigor and accuracy. To succeed in this role, you will maintain a clean, tidy and safe working environment and be proficient in generic and specific software packages.

Comments/Special Instructions

• Qualifications required: Degree in a scientific subject
• Level of experience: Some experience working in a lab environment.
• What type of background: An individual with a graduate degree who has previously worked in an Analytical lab.
• Hands on lab work experience. Ideally IC and/or HPLC experience. Someone used to working to stringent Quality Control systems.

INSIDE IR35

Please note that our clients are unable to offer visa sponsorship. Applicants must have the right to work in the UK.

We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified candidates.