Join Our Team as an Apprentice Lab Technician

Are you scientifically curious, practical and interested in how things are made? Working alongside experienced chemists, you will earn while you learn towards a Level 3 Laboratory Technician Apprenticeship, gaining hands on experience formulating, testing and developing paints and coatings.

Key Responsibilities

• Formulation: Assist senior chemists in weighing, mixing, and formulating new paint batches and raw materials (pigments, resins, and additives)
• Quality Testing: Carry out viscosity, gloss, colour matching, and durability tests using specialised laboratory equipment
• Data Recording: Accurately record data, analyse your results, and maintain detailed documentation
• Safety & Compliance: Maintain a clean, COSHH-compliant laboratory environment and adhere strictly to health and safety standards
• Apprenticeship Studies: Complete all required coursework, attend training sessions, and actively apply your academic learning to the workplace

Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.

Training provider

CSR SCIENTIFIC TRAINING LIMITED

Training course

Laboratory technician (level 3)

What you'll learn

Course contents

• Comply with health and safety policies and procedures including HASWA, COSHH, risk assessments, use of personal protective equipment (PPE), manual handling, emergency procedures.
• Maintain excellent housekeeping, in accordance with organisation Standard Procedures
• Order and control stocks of laboratory materials where required
• Identify, organise and use resources effectively to complete tasks applying the concepts of resource efficiency e.g energy, water and waste
• Adhere to internal and external regulatory requirements e.g. GLP, GMP, GDP
• Prepare for, and perform, laboratory experiments, tests or tasks following any specified methodologies to provide reliable, accurate data e.g. weighing, pipetting, filtering, spectroscopic techniques, chromatography techniques
• Demonstrate technical competence in the use of specified instruments and equipment
• Report faults and seek diagnostic advice to maintain equipment in good working order, including calibration where required
• Complete documentation proficiently
• Keep accurate records of laboratory work undertaken and results
• Contribute to the preparation of reports.
• Use simple statistical techniques for data presentation and evaluation e. g calculation of median and standard deviation, production of graphs
• Demonstrate problem solving techniques including identification of sources of error and how they can be reduced e.g. human error
• Use standard software packages and applications e.g. Microsoft Office suite
• Use Laboratory Information Management systems to support their work
• Address non-routine problems with samples and instrumentation, within defined areas
• Identify relevant information from scientific sources e.g. supervisors, literature etc. in order to contribute to solutions
• Participate in continuous performance improvement of systems and processes relevant to the work environment e.g. workplace organisation techniques, accreditation (e.g. ISO, UKAS) and proficiency testing.
• Evaluate data, recognise and call attention to anomalous or unusual results