Laboratory team leader

Location: Chatteris

Laboratory team leader

This is a permanent opportunity. Kenton Black Scientific is a recruitment partner to one of the leading food testing laboratories based in Cambridgeshire. In this role, you will be managing a team of laboratory technicians.

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for running day-to-day activities within the food chemistry testing laboratory.

• Provide technical and quality training for all the new starters

• Ensure that an adequate number of staff are present at all times in the laboratory

• Analysing protein, moisture, and fat content present in food samples using gravimetric techniques

• Ensure all team members are performing duties/tests according to ISO
17025 guidelines
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Qualifications:

• Degree in science or equivalent

• Proven operational experience and team management within a food/water/environmental  testing laboratory

• Proven project management skills and experience, lean production principles
Experience in using analytical techniques such as GC, GC-MS