Lab Technician Oxford, England
Job description
Lab Technician
Full-Time, Permanent
Location: Oxford
Salary: £24,000 - £30,000
Company:
Do you want to make a difference while advancing your career? Come join Osler.
We are a UK diagnostics company whose purpose is to enable anyone, anywhere, to access, understand, and act on their health, to live healthier, happier, and longer lives.
We are realising this through the development of the Osler Origin – a 'portable lab' capable of performing a wide range of testing, with lab-quality performance, in a portable, rapid, low-cost, and easy-to-use manner. The Osler Origin will offer a wide portfolio of diagnostic tests and serve all major healthcare settings, globally.
The Osler Origin is powered by a portfolio of novel techniques and approaches for sample addition, microfluidic sample preparation, and electrochemical biosensing, and Osler was formed out of the University of Oxford in 2017, following decades of research.
Having recently completed an $85m Series C fundraise, we are now entering a growth phase, where we are scaling our team as we take the Osler Origin product through regulatory activities, and towards market launch.
We are now recruiting for a Lab Technician based in Oxford to support the Laboratory Operations by maintaining an efficient and effective lab environment.
Join us and help build a better future.
Key Responsibilities:
- Assists in experiments to an extremely high standard in a timely manner.
- Maintaining laboratory notebooks to the required company standard.
- Assisting in the preparation of reagents and other common buffers.
- Ensures that instruments are maintained to high standards according to the required specs.
- Maintain stock of project specific reagents and consumables.
Skills & Experience:
Essential
- Organisational skills and ability to manage multiple tasks simultaneously and prioritise appropriately.
- Hands on approach.
- Team player.
- Detail orientated.
- Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written.
- Proficient in Excel, Word, and Powerpoint.
Desirable
- Risk Assessment experience.
- Experience of H&S and CoSHH.
Benefits:
We offer a competitive benefits package, with a focus on health and well-being further supporting the belief in our mission to enable anyone, anywhere, to access, understand and act on their health.
- 25 days holiday + bank holidays and a Christmas closure.
- Annual Learning & Development budget 4% of your salary.
- 12 days of Learning leave.
- 4% matched pension.
- £500 Well-being allowance.
- Private Medical Insurance - (includes subsidised gym memberships).
- 24/7 access to a GP.
- Life Assurance - x4 annual salary.
- Income Protection - 75% of your basic annual salary.
- Private Travel Insurance.
- Annual eye tests.
- Cycle to work scheme.
- Travel to work loan scheme.
- Relocation assistance.
- Volunteering leave.
- Give as you earn - pre-tax salary donations to any UK charitable organisation.
- Quarterly Team Building events and social events.
- Enhanced maternity/paternity.
There is no perfect candidate, and no single person can do it all, but if this sounds like you, or what you could be and you're looking for somewhere to thrive; we want to hear from you.
We look forward to receiving your application. If you have any questions, please contact [email protected]
