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Lab Technician (Construction Materials, Soils, Aggs, Concrete)

ProRail
3 months ago
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Building a sustainable tomorrow

We are currently looking to recruit Laboratory Technicians at laboratories and projects throughout the UK.  Long term opportunities at the following locations below:

  • HS2 South Laboratory, Aylesbury, Oxfordshire    

  • HS2 North Laboratory, Greatworth, Northamptonshire

  • Devonport Docks, Plymouth

  • Hinkley Point C, Near Bridgwater, Somerset

  • Wren Hall Lane, Drax, Near Selby

  • Kilsyth Laboratory, Glasgow Scotland

  • Inverness Laboratory, Scotland

  • Peterhead Laboratory, Scotland

 

The roles require a suitable candidate with experience in materials related testing ranging from Concrete and Aggregates. There may be a requirement to support the wider materials team within the business from time to time.

Your mission

As a Laboratory Technician, you will beresponsiblefor the following:

  • Ensure that site sampling and laboratorytestingis carried out to high standards of safety, quality and efficiency

  • Ensure that adequate and proper records are kept and filed correctly to satisfy the requirements of the laboratory management system and UKAS requirements

  • Ensure that sampling andtestingis carried out to the appropriate British/European Standards

  • Ensure test equipment is checked, cleaned and maintained to an acceptable level

  • Communicating regularly and effectively with internal/external clients/site engineering staff ontestingrequirements

Who are we looking for?
  • In-situ testing in accordance with relevant standards.

  • Materials/Aggregate sampling and testing in accordance with all relevant standards

  • Concrete sampling/testing in accordance with all relevant standards

  • Maintaining high standards of work and compliance with UKAS accreditation requirements

  • Previous experience of working within a busy UKAS accredited laboratory

  • NVQ Level 2 or equivalent an advantage

  • CSCS card

What’s in it for you?
  • Competitive salary
  • A wide range of family-friendly policies
  • Company car/car allowance/travel allowance
  • 8 % matched pension contributions
  • Private healthcare
  • Life assurance
  • 26 days holiday
  • 2 wellbeing days
  • 1 volunteering day
  • Personal and professional development

 

BAM Ritchies is also committed to equality of opportunity in all its employment practices, and to developing policies that support work-life balance.

Who are we?

The art of building is about building for communities; it’s about building for life.

Where others stop, we go further, leading the way towards a sustainable tomorrow for us and future generations. As an industry leader, we raise the bar.

Our values: sustainable, inclusive, collaborative, reliable and ownership, enable us to achieve our ambitions. Today, tomorrow and every day.

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