Laboratory Technician; Maternity Cover

Laboratory Technician at Cmbio (12-month Maternity Cover)
Join Cmbio and Support Metabolomics Projects through Hands-on Laboratory operations

For our laboratory located in Vedbæk, Denmark, we are seeking a Laboratory Technician for a temporary position (12-month maternity cover). You will be part of a dedicated metabolomics team with highly skilled colleagues in Denmark and the US and will play a key role in the practical execution of client projects.

• Set up and maintain laboratory documentation for client projects.
• Perform sample handling, extraction, and further processing of biological and other complex matrices.
• Operate analytical instruments, including GC‑MS and LC‑MS, to generate high-quality data.
• Carry out data quality control checks according to established procedures.
• Support the daily operation of the laboratory, including routine maintenance tasks and inventory of consumables.

• Education as a laboratory technician, laboratory technologist, or similar technical laboratory background.
• Practical experience with wet lab work, including pipetting, sample preparation, and handling of biological samples or complex matrices.
• Familiarity with chromatography and mass spectrometry (GC‑MS and/or LC‑MS) in an analytical setting.
• Good documentation skills and a structured, reliable working style.
• Full professional proficiency in English (written and spoken).

• Experience working quality control or in a regulated laboratory environment (e.g., GLP, ISO 17025, or similar).
• Experience with larger studies or batch-based work, including handling of many samples in parallel.
• Previous work in metabolomics, microbiome, or other omics‑related laboratories.

• Detail‑oriented, organized, and comfortable working with standardized procedures.
• Able to work independently while contributing positively to a collaborative team environment.
• Proactive, reliable, and comfortable with time‑sensitive project work.
• Good communication skills.
• Flexibility to accommodate change environments.
• Willingness to learn new techniques and workflows.

• Opportunity to contribute to microbiome and metabolomics projects in a modern analytical laboratory.
• A supportive and collaborative work environment with experienced colleagues.
• Access to state-of-the-art GC‑MS and LC‑MS platforms and related technologies.
• International, inclusive, and dynamic team culture.
• Employment as a temporary position (12 months) as maternity cover, with salary and terms according to qualifications and experience (Danish Holiday Act applies).

Weekly working hours are 37 hours, excluding lunch break.

As we hope our new colleague will be able to start 1st of May or soon hereafter, we will conduct interviews on an ongoing basis.

Send your CV, cover letter and relevant documents to applications. Please include your motivation for applying for the job in the application. In the e‑mail subject field please write: “Laboratory Technician”.

You are very welcome to call Stefanie Riegels at  for further information about the position.

All interested candidates irrespective of age, gender, race, disability, religion, or ethnic background are encouraged to apply.

We are an international and energetic team of 100+ people. 16 of us located at our Laboratory facilities in Vedbæk, Denmark. We offer a challenging and rewarding position in a fast‑paced, team‑oriented, non‑bureaucratic start‑up/scale‑up environment and flexible working hours.

Don’t meet every single requirement? At Cmbio, we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and fun workplace of colleagues driven by curiosity and with high integrity and empathy. If you are excited about this role but your past experience does not align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway, irrespective of for example age, gender, race, disability, religion, or ethnic background.

You may just be the right candidate for this or other roles.