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Senior Assistant Scientist

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Sectors Sustainability, Climate, CSR, EMS
Location England (South West) - UK
Type Fixed Term and Permanent Roles
Status Full Time
Level Senior Level
Deadline 05/09/2013
Company Name Environment Agency
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Description

Description of the job

Salary: £20,301 - £21,343

Working pattern: Tuesday - Saturday

The role

We’re looking for a Senior Assistant Scientists to carry out day to day supervision and organisation within a busy laboratory; prioritising the analytical workload to ensure turnaround targets are achieved.

The successful candidate will be employed to work Tuesday to Saturday, utilising the Environment Agency’s ‘flexitime’ system over a 37 hour week. This post is open to employment agency staff working within the Environment Agency.

The team

The NLS Starcross Laboratory is responsible for providing routine and non-routine analysis for a wide range of internal and external customers.

Experience / skills required

We’re seeking a self reliant, proactive person, who will support the Scientists on site. The emphasis (although not exclusively) will be on the technical and health and safety development of Assistant Scientists and the troubleshooting of both methods and instrumentation, combined with effective management of samples throughout the section.

You'll need to demonstrate the following key skills:

• knowledge of the quality systems used to maintain confidence in our results;

• delivery of work within tight timescales and often with conflicting priorities;

• attention to detail, especially with regards to problem solving and process development;


• demonstrate experience in the application of analytical knowledge.

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