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About the Role
Join our market-leading laboratories providing water testing services. Utilize state-of-the-art equipment to ensure water quality meets the highest standards. This role is crucial for supporting analysts with laboratory preparations and performing analytical tasks.
Responsibilities
- Operate instrumentation in accordance with the Management System.
- Assist with the maintenance and operation of preparatory equipment.
- Help to document information by maintaining daily logs and equipment record books.
- Ensure data is accurately entered into the Laboratory Information Management System within set timeframes.
- Report and communicate with senior members of staff on any quality issues.
- Assist with the preparation of reagents and AQC’s in accordance with company internal procedures.
- Maintain good laboratory practice and housekeeping at all times.
- Participate in the auditing of internal practices to ensure compliance with the management system.
- Contribute to key tasks within the chemistry section.
- Achieve deadlines and service level agreements with consistent outputs.
- Demonstrate task prioritization and show flexibility to help meet demand.
- Plan and organize time systematically and demonstrate foresight to perform tasks successfully.
- Demonstrate an understanding of the principles and practice of analytical quality control.
- Demonstrate an understanding and appreciation of Health, Safety and Environmental issues and adhere to the relevant requirements relating to Chemistry and the Laboratory.
- Continue to develop chemistry knowledge and other laboratory skills as required for the work undertaken and for career development.
Requirements
- A degree or equivalent qualification in Chemistry or another closely related subject.
- Excellent numeracy, literacy, and computer literacy skills.
- Skills to engage in robust laboratory practice.
- A desire to learn and put into practice what has been learned.
- Keen to take responsibility for personal and career development to progress to the next level.
- Must have the legal right to work in the UK.
- Must pass background, identity, and employment referencing checks.
Skills
- Chemistry
- Laboratory preparations
- Analytical tasks
- Instrumentation operation
- Equipment maintenance
- Data recording
- Attention to detail
- Precision
- Numeracy
- Literacy
- Computer literacy
- Analytical quality control
- Health, Safety and Environmental awareness
Location
- UK
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Dependent on experience
Education Level
- Degree in Chemistry or closely related subject
Salary/Compensations
- £25,948 p.a.
Benefits
- Excellent Stakeholder pension scheme, up to 10% employer contribution.
- 5 weeks holiday plus bank holidays per annum, increasing to 6 weeks with length of service.
- Flexible annual leave policy to buy or sell holiday leave.
- Paid volunteering days.
- Cycle to work scheme.
- Health cash plan.
- Life assurance.
- Wellbeing related benefits.
About the Company
- We want to be the water company people want to be supplied by and want to work for.
- South East Water kindly asks that recruitment agencies refrain from submitting CVs to our employees or associates without explicit invitation from our HR Resourcing team. CVs sent on a speculative basis will not be acknowledged and will not assume any responsibility for fees or commissions in the event that we hire a candidate who applied directly or subsequently introduced by an instructed agency.
Equal Opportunity
- We know the communities we serve are diverse. We recognise creativity comes from diversity not similarity. That’s why we are enthusiastic about creating inclusion across age, race, gender, ethnicity, religion and identity. You will experience our dedication to equal opportunities and fair treatment for all: through your recruitment, employment and career progression with South East Water.