"Laboratory Technician – Biosciences Teaching Laboratories"

About the role

As a Biosciences Teaching technician, you will work as part of a small team contributing to the provision of technical support services to the teaching laboratories and practical teaching activities within the school.

The role is responsible for the general upkeep of the teaching laboratory lab spaces, the preparation of the resources and equipment required to safely deliver practical teaching. This includes the preparation of non-commercially available reagents, set up and use of apparatus and relevant organisational and administrative tasks.

About you

We are looking to appoint a highly motivated, hard-working person to join a small team of technicians supporting multiple biosciences teaching laboratories and field activities in the School of Life Sciences.

You will have the proven skills to manage your own workload, meet deadlines and work with precision and accuracy to deliver the service required.

About our School

Please find further information regarding the School of Life Sciences on our website.

The School of Life Sciences is proud to hold a Silver Athena Swann Award.

Why work here

Our university is situated off the A27, next to the beautiful South Downs where you will enjoy everything that our 150-acre campus has to offer. We are accessible by public transport; Falmer train station is a five-minute walk to campus and several bus stops are located within campus. We also have dedicated cycling paths and encourage our staff to use these with our offering of a cycle to work scheme.

Sussex is a renowned, multi-accredited, research-led International University and this is only possible because of the people that work here. Whether you are a member of Faculty, part of a Professional Services team or a Student, it’s our people that make us great and we want you to be part of that.

Find out more about our reward and benefits package.

Find out about our equality, diversity and inclusion.

Further Key Information

Please contact William Horne (w.a.horne@sussex.ac.uk) for informal enquiries.

For full details and how to apply see our vacancies page.

The University is committed to equality and valuing diversity, and applications are particularly welcomed from women and black and minority ethnic candidates, who are under-represented in academic posts in Science, Technology, Engineering, Medicine and Mathematics (STEMM) at Sussex.

The University requires that work undertaken for the University is performed in the UK.

Visa Sponsorship Queries: This role is not eligible for sponsorship under the Skilled Worker route.