Laboratory Supervisor

**Purpose**

**Duties & Responsibilities**
- Manage ongoing technical improvements within the onsite laboratory. There will be significant investment over the next 1-2 years and new analysers will have to be researched, purchased and commissioned.
- Supervise the laboratory team when undertaking routine testing and research projects. Check and validate data. Issue certificates of analysis. Investigate suspicious results and troubleshoot analyser faults.
- Conduct system checks and calibrations on equipment in the Laboratory and perform maintenance to ensure that it is fit for purpose.
- Support the Process Engineers by providing technical analytical support when required.
- Collate and record daily analysis data and identify trends and opportunities for improvement.
- Review Safe Working Methods (SWMs) and produce new SWMs when required.
- A degree in physical sciences or engineering or would be useful, but not essential. Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, Materials Science and metallurgy are particularly relevant.
- Experience in experimental design or continuous improvement.
- Your career up to now may include
- Similar laboratory roles in the material processing industries (recycling, metal processing, manufacturing e.g. steel, cement, bulk food and pharmaceutical etc.)
- Research, either in an academic or industrial organisation.

**Salary - Competitive**

**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent

Schedule:

- Monday to Friday