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    Do you have a passion for innovative ideas and groundbreaking discoveries? With over $1 billion invested annually in R&D, at Thermo Fisher Scientific you’ll help solve some of the world’s toughest challenges, from giving cancer patients hope, ensuring safe drinking water and helping law enforcement tackle cases through forensics. We empower our teams to put science into meaningful action and give our R&D colleagues the autonomy, resources and tools they need to take science a step beyond.

    Job description

    At Thermo Fisher Scientific, you’ll discover meaningful work that makes a positive impact on a global scale. Join our colleagues in bringing our Mission to life – To enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer.

    The Laboratory Technician will be responsible for supporting our cross functional Chemistry Lab team at Wade Road, Basingstoke. Working Monday to Thursday 08:00-16:00 and Friday 08:00-14:30. Your main focus will be to support the teams working in the Chemistry Laboratory with day-to-day maintenance tasks. Once fully trained you will have the opportunity to get more involved with our customer-facing projects and learn antimicrobial susceptibility testing (AST) and our analytical chemistry techniques that support the AST discs product range.

    Key responsibilities

    • Maintaining the laboratory to a high level of safety, efficiency, cleanliness and housekeeping.
    • Ensuring the laboratory is adequately stocked to support the lab teams.
    • Assisting the laboratory team to maintain equipment such as HPLCs.
    • Ensuring that the laboratory is constantly improving its processes using PPI and JDIs.
    • Assisting with regular audits of the laboratory space to ensure standards are met.
    • Support the AST technical team for customer facing contracts to ensure that timelines are met with routine experiment setup.

    Keys to success

    Education

    • Preferred bachelors degree in Chemistry or equivalent related degree.
    • Willing to work alongside your education if you are working towards a scientific related degree.

    Knowledge, skills, abilities

    • A desire to learn and develop your laboratory skills and experience.
    • Not afraid to ask questions and communicate openly.
    • Enjoys problem solving, troubleshooting and passionate about suggesting improvements to processes.
    • Driven and capable of working independently as part of a cross functional laboratory team.
    • Attention to detail, ensuring things are done right first time.