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Laboratory Team Leader
Location: Telford, Shropshire
Salary: £33,000 - £35,000 per annum (dependent upon experience)
About the Role
The Cattle Information Service are seeking two experienced Laboratory Team Leaders to provide support to the Laboratory Manager in running their very high-throughput milk testing laboratory. With purpose-built state of the art laboratory facilities, CIS are a well-established and leading provider of nutritional and health testing services for dairy and beef farmers in the UK. With a UKAS 17025 accredited laboratory in Telford, they are very well-known with a fantastic reputation in the market.
With a fantastic senior leadership team to support, they are looking for strong team leaders – people who can lead, prioritise and resource teams effectively in a fast-moving, high-throughput laboratory. The position would be well suited to a Senior Lab Analyst looking to take a step up, or an experienced Team Leader looking to develop their career further.
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Important note: this role is a shift-based role so candidates need their own transport and be willing to work a 4 on, 4 off shift pattern including weekends.
About You
You’ll bring:
- Recent, proven experience of managing a team of Analysts in an ISO accredited laboratory (ideally in a contract-testing laboratory but other sectors will be considered)
- Or recent, proven experience as a Senior Analyst in an ISO accredited lab looking to take a step up into team management
- Strong organisational capability in resource planning and workload prioritisation
- Excellent leadership, communication skills and high attention to detail
- Excellent leadership and interpersonal skills
- A real passion for team development and management
- The willingness and ability to work on a shift pattern including weekend working
- A full UK driving licence and own transport to get to site.
What You’ll Be Responsible For
- Managing a team of 5 Lab Assistants and Lab Analysts, supervising the compositional testing of a high throughput of samples
- Overseeing the daily running of the lab to ensure rapid turnaround of samples to meet deadlines
- Managing sample workflow throughout the lab, ensuring adequate resource allocation
- Identifying training needs and monitoring development of the team
- Training staff and regular performance reviews
- Maintaining laboratory compliance including ISO17025, H&S and COSHH
- Investigating and reporting any out-of-spec results
- Writing reports and maintaining documentation such as equipment calibration checks
- Reviewing current laboratory processes to understand improvement areas
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Why Join the Cattle Information Service?
- Great opportunity to develop team leadership skills further
- Work in a supportive and inclusive environment with a great senior leadership team
- Join a well-established and leading company with a great reputation in the market
- Competitive salary (TBC) and benefits including private medical insurance.
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