Senior Laboratory Technician (Paleoceanography

Role:Senior Laboratory Technician (Paleoceanography)

Grade and Salary:Grade 6 - £31,236 - £36,636 per annum

Contract Type:Full Time (1

FTE), Fixed Term for 6 months.Part-time working is available.

Holiday Entitlement:33 days annual leaveplus 9 buildings-closed days (and Christmas Eve when it falls on a weekday)

Purpose of Role

The role will be supporting an UKRI funded Future Leaders Fellowship‘Fate of ocean oxygenation in a warming world’,project with

Professor

Babette Hoogakker (Lyell Centre, Heriot-Watt University).

The project will involve proxy reconstructions of seawater oxygen levels and outreach work.

The individual will provide technical and logistical support. The applicant would be processing and analysing samples from marine sediment cores and require as a minimum a first degree (MSc desirable) in earth and ocean sciences (includes marine geology, oceanography, or marine biogeochemistry) and experience of working in a laboratory.

Key Duties & Responsibilities

To support ongoing research on oxygen levels in the oceans and provide specialist technical support inpaleoceanographicresearch, liaising directly with the line manager.

Duties will involve:

• sample preparation (weighing, sieving, drying of sediment samples),
• identifying and picking of foraminifera,
• carrying out sedimentary andspecialistforaminifera geochemical analyses in laboratory,

Education, Qualifications and Experience

Essential

• A degreeinenvironmental/earth and ocean sciences, including oceanography, marine biology, geology, biogeochemistry
• Experienced in identification of benthic and planktonic foraminiferal species
• Analytical and technical problem solving skills
• IT skills, proficient in the use of computers and general software
• Good communication and presentation skills
• Team player with good interpersonal skills
• Demonstrate self-motivation and desire to achieve theobjectivesagreed with managers working towards the strategic goals set by theschool
• Demonstrable ability to work quickly,flexibly and accurately in a dynamic,changing and pressured environment
• Demonstrable professional and proactive approach
• Willingness to travel and perform laboratory work with partner institutes

Desirable

• A MSc degree in paleoceanography
• Working experience in applying palaeoceanographic proxies, including running specialist laboratory equipment
• Working towards deadlines
• Analytical and technical problem-solving skills
• Experienceofrelevanthealth and safety protocols

We welcome and will consider flexible working patternse.g.,part-time working and job share options.

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About the Team

The School of Energy, Geoscience, Infrastructure and Society (EGIS) providesa collaborative research and teaching environment organised into our five institutes:

• Institute of Sustainable Built Environment (ISBE)
• The Institute of Life and Earth Sciences (ILES)
• The Institute of Geo Energy Engineering (IGE)
• TUI and ISPHERE have been replaced by the Institute for Place, Environment and Society

In addition to our four institutes, the International Centre for Island Technology (ICIT) in Orkney is a specialised arm of the Institute of Life and Earth Sciences.

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