University of Bath
Teaching & Research Technician
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Teaching & Research Technician
About The Role
The Synthetic Chemistry Teaching and Research Technician is a key full-time, open-ended position within the Faculty of Science (FoS) teaching support team. Working closely with our Department of Chemistry Technical Manager and academic teaching team, you will be responsible for the logistics and operation of the Synthetic Chemistry teaching lab. The successful candidate will also provide cover for our Physical and Life Sciences Chemistry teaching spaces.
Ensuring undergraduate (UG) teaching sessions are prepared for in advance is key to first-class service provision, as is ensuring the technical team, academic staff, and demonstrators are supported. The successful candidate will organise routine maintenance for the wide range of analytical instruments used in the delivery of our teaching and research activities. They will also have the capacity to produce accurate user information/procedures and be able to demonstrate the practical elements of instrumentation. Effective communication with multiple stakeholders is essential.
About You
Our model candidate will be a chemist, with experience in a technical, teaching, and/or research environment. A proven interest in synthetic or analytical chemistry would be ideal, but we would consider other chemical disciplines for the right candidate.
- A degree in Chemistry or equivalent experience.
- Experience of preparing chemical materials.
- Significant analytic/equipment experience.
- Experience of planning and coordinating laboratory logistics to tight timescales.
- A strong understanding of laboratory health and safety and a passion for encouraging others to demonstrate good practice.
Effective time-management, efficiency, and the capacity to multi-task are key to this role. A flexible approach to work and the ability to troubleshoot are also important. Clear communication, diplomacy, and enthusiasm are essential for anyone working as part of our busy team.
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Further Information
This is a full-time (36.5 hours per week) role. For further information please contact our Technical Manager, Fabienne Pradaux-Caggiano (fp213@bath.ac.uk). Please ensure that all applications are submitted via the University website.
We consider ourselves to be a university where difference is celebrated, respected, and encouraged. We have an excellent international reputation with staff from over 60 different nations and have made a positive commitment towards gender equity and intersectionality receiving a Silver Athena SWAN award. We truly believe that diversity of experience, perspectives, and backgrounds will lead to a better environment for our employees and students and encourage applications from all genders, backgrounds, and communities, particularly from under-represented groups, and value the positive impact that will have on the university. We are committed to maintaining a safe and secure environment for our students, staff, and community by reinforcing our Safer Recruitment commitment.
We're very proud to be a signatory of the Armed Forces Covenant, an accredited Disability Confident Leader; an autism-friendly university, committed to building disability confidence and supporting disabled staff.
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Benefits
We're continually expanding our benefits package to better support you and enhance your experience with us and the below is just an example of some of the many great benefits we offer:
- Generous annual leave allowance with an additional 5 discretionary days so that you can enjoy a positive work-life balance.
- Generous employer contributory pension schemes.
- Cycle to work scheme.
- Electric vehicle salary sacrifice scheme.
- Staff discount at Team Bath gym.
- Staff benefits include discounted postgraduate tuition and language courses, alongside a wide range of personal and professional development opportunities such as apprenticeships, LinkedIn Learning, and more.
- Local discounts, including free entry to the Holburne Museum in Bath.
- A family-friendly workplace.
- An excellent reward package that recognizes the talents of our diverse workforce.
- Relocation allowance.
- Visa reimbursement and Interest-Free Loan to help with the cost of some immigration expenses.
- Employee assistance services through Health Assured, including access to the Wisdom app.
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Right to Work in the UK: We do not assess immigration or right to work status until offer stage. Being invited to interview does not guarantee you are eligible for visa sponsorship and all offers are conditional on meeting right to work requirements. Further information is available on our application support webpage.
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