Cambridge Consultants

Laboratory Technician

Cambridge Consultants  •  United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (Onsite)  •  11 hours ago
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Job Description

Our Applied Science team is the hub of innovation for applied chemistry, consumer beverages, consumer health and liquid-based consumer product development.

As part of a multidisciplinary team, the successful candidate will provide critical laboratory expertise and practical support across various innovative projects.

If you have hands-on laboratory experience and a passion for tackling diverse challenges, we encourage you to read the full job profile.

The role

At Cambridge Consultants, we handle multiple projects across a broad range of sectors every year, including:

  • Industrial: Developing sensors, robotics, and logistics systems for manufacturing and retail clients
  • Defence: Creating secure end-to-end systems for government clients, covering areas like sensing, communications, tracking, location, and data analysis
  • Healthcare Conducting medical device testing in compliance with ISO13485 standards
  • Biotech: Preparing reagents, samples, and media using aseptic techniques, supporting the needs of various project stakeholders
  • Consumer: Designing smart dispensing and connected sensor systems for personal care, food & beverage, and sports & fitness brands

Our work spans full product development from concept to manufacturing, as well as offering consulting services on technology, innovation, and R&D processes.

As a laboratory technician, your responsibilities will include a variety of tasks such as evaluating and testing systems and devices, conducting basic wet chemistry, maintaining laboratory equipment, and providing safety training.

Key responsibilities

As a Laboratory Technician, you will play a vital role in supporting various projects, with responsibilities that include:

  • General laboratory housekeeping and maintenance of a variety of facilities
  • Conducting daily and weekly equipment checks
  • Performing verification testing and evaluating systems and devices under development
  • Following standard operating procedures and adhering to health and safety regulations in each workspace
  • Accurately recording and reporting results to project team members and other stakeholders
  • Advising engineers on laboratory safety practices and the proper use of laboratory equipment
  • Participating in mechanical rig assembly and testing, as required
  • Provide support to wet labs by preparing stock solutions and work solutions as needed by project teams

What you'll need

To be successful in this role, you'll need the following skills or experience:

  • Proven experience working in a laboratory, test house, or within production QA processes
  • Proactive, self-motivated, and able to work effectively as part of a multidisciplinary team
  • Strong ability to perform hands-on laboratory procedures in a methodical, precise, and safe manner
  • Flexible and organised, with the capacity to manage multiple projects involvement simultaneously (strong multitasking skills)
  • Adaptable to changing project demands and requirements
  • Excellent teamwork skills
  • Competency with standard IT packages, including Microsoft Office applications
  • Strong verbal and communication skills,
  • Capable of delivering essential safety training to engineers and scientists, and providing guidance on the use of laboratory equipment

By submitting an application to Cambridge Consultants, you confirm that the information provided in this application, together with any supporting documentation, is true, complete, and accurate to the best of your knowledge and belief. You understand that any false statement, misleading information, or material omission may render you liable to disqualification from the recruitment process, withdrawal of any offer of employment, or dismissal without notice if discovered following appointment. You acknowledge that the organisation reserves the right to verify the information supplied.

Cambridge Consultants

About Cambridge Consultants

We do deep tech, you create the future… we are Cambridge Consultants. We do extraordinary, new-to-the-world deep tech innovation. What is deep tech? It’s a mindset; a bold strategy that harnesses radical science and engineering to achieve things no-one else can. It enables our clients to gain unassailable commercial advantage from defendable technology that they own. Markets are redefined, and the world takes notice.

As the deep tech powerhouse of Capgemini, we’re ready to work with you to create technologies, services and products that have never been seen before. And which will transform business, society and the planet. If your ambition is to shatter the status quo, it’s time to get the future you want – with the power of deep tech.

We are global team of 800 bright, talented people, delivering work across 35 countries from offices in Cambridge (UK) Boston (USA), Singapore and Tokyo. We have more than 140 laboratories and over 200,000 square feet of world-class design and development facilities.

Our people are united by the ambition to turn brilliant, breakthrough ideas into scaled technologies, products and services. Cambridge Consultants is trusted by some of the world’s biggest brands and most ambitious start-ups to achieve their critical technology-based aspirations – and we’ve been doing it for more than 60 years.

Industry
Creative & Design
Company Size
501-1,000 employees
Headquarters
Cambridge, GB
Year Founded
Unknown
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