Senior Technician (Fixed term)

Applications are invited for the above post based within the School of Biosciences at the Sutton Bonington Campus.  

The role holder will be responsible for planning and overseeing the day-to-day running of a work area, preparing, and allocating resources, and providing supervision, guidance and instruction in the use of equipment and techniques to staff/students in the areas of food materials science, and food processing teaching and research. The role holder will be responsible for the upkeep of a designated work area, as well as maintenance of equipment and preparation of materials. The role will be required to support other areas within the school where skills and techniques of the role holder could be shared and/or utilised, or where routine technical support is required. 

Duties will include:

• Planning and overseeing the day to day running of a work area to assist research projects, allocating resources, and providing guidance and instruction to staff and/or students to ensure work objectives and standards are met.
• Utilising technical knowledge and expertise to conceptualise and interpret the requirements of research staff and students.
• Supervision of undergraduate and postgraduate project students to include the delivery of training in relevant techniques and equipment.
• Advising and assisting staff and students on the development, design, preparation, construction, assembly and application of equipment/systems, which may include setting up of experiments/systems and the deployment of particular techniques.
• To conduct regular routine maintenance, fault diagnosis and repair of equipment/ apparatus personally or through others in own area of responsibility, as required, and advise, where necessary, on the purchasing of equipment and consumables.
• To provide quality and timely advice, assist and train staff and students on the development, design, preparation, construction, assembly and application of equipment/systems, the setting up of experiments and/or deployment of techniques/methods.
• Ensure that the department complies with work related legal and health and safety standards. 
• Ensuring staff, students and/or new researchers are trained in techniques and the safe and effective use of equipment to ensure compliance with relevant health and safety regulations, including carrying out safety risk assessments.

(Full details can be found in the job description.)

Candidates must have a minimum of HNC in Food Sciences or relevant subject, or equivalent qualifications plus substantial work experience in a relevant in a relevant role. Candidates should be able to demonstrate examples of knowledge and practical experience of food processing techniques, material science and physicochemical characterisation techniques.

Experience of working within Food, nutrition and dietetics laboratories and/or within food production facilities and an understanding of the requirements for working at ACDP Containment level 2 would be desirable.

This is a fixed-term, full time post (36.25 hours per week) until 2 February 2026, which will be reviewed in Jan 2026 and the position is available from 1^st March 2025. Job share arrangements may be considered. Requests for secondment from internal candidates may be considered on the basis that prior agreement has been sought from both your current line manager and the manager of your substantive post, if you are already undertaking a secondment role.

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