Laboratory Technician

ABAgri

The Role & Key Responsibilities

Job Title: Laboratory Technician

Location: Wolverhampton, West Midlands, UK

Contract and shift pattern: Permanent, 30 hours per week, Thursday - Sunday 08:30 - 16:30

Package includes a starting £21,764.42, a comprehensive benefits package designed to support your wellbeing and reward your impact.

The Role: The Laboratory Technician will provide the knowledge and skills to assist with the ongoing testing and registration of samples as well as basic maintenance of instruments that are fundamental to the laboratory’s operation.

Key Responsibilities

To register and analyse samples submitted to the laboratory following published Standard Operating Procedures and Quality Standards.
To ensure that any instrumentation that is used during analyses is operated to established KPI’s.
To monitor and apply any amendments made to standard working practices.
To be responsible for completing laboratory records accurately
To assist in the maintenance of the supply of consumables and reagents utilised in the laboratory
To report any sample registration or sample analyses that do not conform to standard procedures.
To ensure the quality of customer communications, both verbal and written are of the highest standard.
To understand and follow all health and safety procedures involved with both the site and individual workstations.

Essential Key Skills

To have the ability to understand, follow and convey technical instructions.
To have excellent accuracy and attention to detail
To have good analytical skills
To have good organisational and time management skills
Be good at working in a team environment
The ability to maintain technical equipment
Computer Literate and be a competent user of Microsoft Office Products

About The Company

Decoding milk data, building robust insights.

When you join us, you'll do meaningful work and be rewarded fairly for it. From annual salary reviews and incentive bonus, ongoing career development and enhanced family, financial and wellbeing benefits – these are just some of the ways we reward you - from day one.

We’re National Milk Records (NMR) a part of the AB Agri community committed to investing in an innovative range of milk quality, herd health and genomic testing services, generating data and building robust insights that empower farmers to make informed decisions on cow productivity.

We’re part of AB Agri, the agricultural division of Associated British Foods (ABF plc) and we’re passionate about feeding the world responsibly and affordably by making quality animal feed, creating nutrition and technology-based products, and offering data services for the agri-food industry.

Application Notes

We hope you feel that AB Agri is somewhere you can thrive and so we’d love to hear from you. We get a lot of applications for our roles and sometimes need to close the process early so register your details and upload your CV via our careers website as soon as you can – it will only take a few minutes.

When you do, we’ll ask you some equal opportunities questions just to ensure our recruitment process is inclusive – or show us areas we can improve. This information is anonymised, separate from your application and is never seen by the hiring panel. You can choose not to answer these questions, and this won’t affect your application.

Apply today or contact our recruitment team for more information.

Agencies and media sales

AB Agri group politely requests no contact from recruitment agencies or media sales. We don’t accept speculative CVs from recruitment agencies nor accept the fees associated with them.