Assistant Technician

This full-time post is available immediately on a permanent basis

Summary of the role

A permanent full-time Assistant Technician is required at the University of Exeter, on Streatham Campus. The post will be based across Hatherly and Washington Singer Laboratories, covering a variety of disciplines including labs from Clinical and Biomedical Sciences, Biosciences, Geography and Psychology departments. The successful candidate will work as part of the technical team to carry out a range of key technical duties to support academic staff, researchers and students working in class I and II research laboratories, with facilities for electrophysiology, neurosciences, fire and marine sciences, tissue culture, microbiology, microscopy, biochemistry, and animal behaviour studies.

Activities in Hatherly and Washington Singer Laboratories are currently enjoying significant expansion with many new research groups joining the labs in the buildings; it’s therefore an exciting time to join this dynamic, highly motivated and award-winning team. The successful applicant can expect to acquire a vast range of diverse skills to complement the ones they bring to the team.

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Research Service Division

The University of Exeter has grown its research activity significantly over the two decades and, since joining the Russell Group of research-intensive universities in 2012, has made a step change in its research income and earnings performance, research quality, numbers of research students and knowledge exchange activities. The Research Services Division is a key enabler to the delivery of the University’s Strategy 2030, the Research and Impact Strategy, successful REF performances, and meeting research income targets.

This role is within the Technical Strategy & Operations part of the Division. We are research and teaching technical staff across the entirety of the University of Exeter. We work in specialist areas across the University and beyond, undertaking and supporting research and teaching and promoting compliance and best practice, in the labs, studios, workshops, and field.

The service is comprised of a team of talented individuals who support our teaching and research, and in training the next generation of top scientists. Our technical roles, which include experimental officers, laboratory technicians and research technicians, all focus on different aspects of science and humanities - from mechanical/electrical engineering, medicine and health, life sciences, social sciences, film, drama & communications, physics, geology and geography, and so much more.

We are proud signatories of the Technician Commitment, working to raise the visibility, recognition, career development and sustainability of technical careers. We are also proud signatories of the Armed Forces Covenant and welcome applications from service people to work in our operationally focused service. This role forms part of our Technical Career Pathway.

This post supports the Faculty of Health and Life Sciences Faculty of Environment, and the Faculty of Environment, Science and Economy.

Further information

Please contact Agnieszka Kaczmar, A.Kaczmar2@exeter.ac.uk, or Dr Garrick Taylor, G.F.Taylor@exeter.ac.uk, for informal enquiries about the role.

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