Technician

Ensign-Bickford Aerospace & Defense; Swaffham; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading independent scientific organization is seeking Laboratory Technicians for a fixed-term position from July 2025 to May 2026. Responsibilities include preparing and weighing samples, ensuring paperwork accuracy, and assisting with lab maintenance. Successful candidates will be enthusiastic, organized, and able to handle multiple tasks with attention to detail. This role offers an opportunity to contribute to significant environmental and agricultural analyses in a team-oriented environment.

Qualifications

• Enthusiastic and team-focused.
• Ability to work effectively and collaboratively.
• Take initiative with hands-on work.
• Handle multiple tasks with attention to detail.
• Highly organized and strong time management skills.

Responsibilities

• Prepare and weigh samples within timeframes.
• Communicate discrepancies/queries professionally.
• Sort samples and ensure paperwork accuracy.
• Organize workload using LIMS.
• Assist analysts with maintenance of instrumentation.
• Help with unboxing and organizing samples.
• Grind samples for analysis.

Job description

Recognise you whenever you visit this website (this speeds up your access to the website as you do not have to log in each time);

• Obtain information about your preferences, online movements and use of the internet;
• Carry out research and statistical analysis to help improve our content, products and services and to help us better understand our customer requirements and interests;
• Target our marketing and advertising campaigns more effectively by providing interest-based advertisements that are personalised to your interests;
• Make your online experience more efficient and enjoyable.

Consent

What it does: Data Collection, Configuration, Data Processing and Reporting

Why is it used: Tracks and Reports Traffic (Anonymised) for Web Analytics

How long it lasts: At least 25 Months

Enquiries

When contacted with an enquiry, we will hold the entity name and contact details only for the purposes of handling the enquiry.

Time left to apply End Date: September 19, 2025 (30+ days left to apply)

Job requisition id REQ106274

Location

This role is located in NRM, within the Cawood Scientific Agriculture Division. NRM, part of the Cawood Scientific Group, is the UK’s largest independent provider of agronomic and environmental waste analysis for land-based industries. We offer water, soil, manures, fertilisers, and plant tissue analysis to farmers, growers, and agronomists for improved farm productivity, as well as land-based environmental services including composted waste, anaerobic digestate, effluents, and industrial renewables. Learn more about NRM by clicking here.

Job Description:

Cawood is the UK’s leading independent scientific group, recognized for its technical capability and value-added service to customers. We provide laboratory analysis to the agriculture, food, and environmental sectors, as well as contract research to GLP standards to support the development of agrochemicals, biocides, and other chemicals.

Cawood currently has an exciting opportunity for Laboratory Technicians to join our TOC team on a full-time, fixed-term basis from July 2025 to May 2026.

Key Responsibilities include the following:

• To prepare and weigh samples within agreed timeframes while ensuring all HSE, quality, and turnaround time requirements are met.
• To communicate any discrepancies/queries in a professional manner.
• Sorting of samples and ensuring they correspond with the relevant paperwork.
• Using our LIMS to organise workload.
• Working as a team and maintaining morale and actively offering help and assistance wherever possible.
• Assisting analysts with daily maintenance of instrumentation.
• To assist receipt department with the unboxing and organising of samples.
• To grind samples to both 2mm and 0.5mm for analysis.

The above responsibilities do not cover all tasks that would be required.

The successful candidates should:

• Have enthusiasm, energy and be team focused.
• Must be able to work effectively and collaboratively within own team and other sections.
• Must take initiative and have the ability to conduct hands-on work.
• Must possess the ability to handle multiple tasks with high attention to detail.
• Highly organised and excellent time management skills.

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