Marine Laboratory Assistant - Guildford Guildford, England
Job description
Thomson environmental consultants: The independent, employee-owned consultancy, chosen by successful clients, admired by competitors, and the place to work preferred by top specialists.
With offices across the UK, our experts are committed to delivering our clients exceptional outcomes across a range of environmental services and ecological contracting.
Position:
Do you have what it takes to be a reliable and enthusiastic Marine Laboratory assistant? We have a wonderful opportunity to join a fast-growing team in a highly successful business. If you are passionate about Marine Aquatics, we would love to hear from you!
In this varied and exciting support role, you will work within the Marine team to assist with meeting the needs of colleagues and clients alike, building on the team and Thomson's success and working at all times to achieve the company’s vision and values.
This is a full-time, permanent role based out of our Guildford office, so you’ll need to be within a commutable distance.
Requirements:
Successful candidates will:
- Work as part of a project team, and able to undertake laboratory projects to a high standard
- Be able to sieve samples to a high standard
- Be able to biomass samples to a high standard
- Keep the laboratory organised, clean and tidy
- Be able to carry out Particle Size Analysis to a high standard
- Be able to extract fauna from samples
- Provide support to line managers in team developments
- Be Living in the UK with the right to work.
- Promote a good, supportive working environment where staff feel valued and are highly motivated.
Other information:
We promote a happy, friendly workplace and are guided by the company’s core values of Respect, Integrity, Support and Excellence. We excel at providing our people with amazing career progression and offer an extensive range of company benefits which include: 25 days annual leave, healthcare cash plan, enhanced stakeholder pension scheme, life insurance, discounted gym membership, paid professional memberships, clothing allowance, outstanding performance rewards, free parking and regular local and company social events!
One of the major advantages to working at Thomson is that our people is at the heart of everything we do. As an Employee-Owned Trust (EOT), all Thomson employees have a stake in the business and reap the reward of its success including performance-related annual bonuses. We also pride ourselves in providing market leading internal and external training opportunities which contributes to individual tailored career path ways.
