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Laboratory Manager and Senior Research Technician

University of Leeds
West Yorkshire
1 year ago
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Laboratory Manager and Senior Research Technician

Can you provide laboratory management and senior technical support for multiple active research labs across a range of facilities supporting research in Oral Biology? Do you have excellent analytical, organisational and time-management skills?

The Division of Oral Biology, is looking for a highly motivated individual with experience in microbiology and ideally experience in one of the following as well: tissue culture, biochemistry or biomaterials, to provide technical support and laboratory management to academic staff, research staff, and postgraduate research students.

The role will be based in the Division of Oral Biology’s state-of-the-art laboratories based in The Wellcome Trust Brenner Building at St James University Campus. The post-holder will join a vibrant research orientated team internationally known for their interdisciplinary foundational and translational research and research-led postgraduate teaching in the development and pathology of hard and soft tissues as well pioneering regenerative therapies for treating disease

What we offer in return

26 days holiday plus approx. 16 Bank Holidays/days that the University is closed by custom (including Christmas) – That’s 42 days a year! Generous pension scheme options plus life assurance Health and Wellbeing: Discounted staff membership options at The Edge, our state-of-the-art Campus gym, with a pool, sauna, climbing wall, cycle circuit, and sports halls. Personal Development: Access to courses run by our Organisational Development & Professional Learning team, and self-development courses including languages, Creative Writing, Wellbeing Therapies and much more. Access to on-site childcare, shopping discounts and travel schemes are also available.

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