Laboratory Instrument & Operations Technician

Laboratory Instrument & Operations Join Cmbio and Support Metabolomics Projects through Hands‑on Laboratory operations

For our laboratory in Vedbæk, Denmark, we are seeking a Laboratory Instrument & Operations Technician with strong technical skills in maintenance and troubleshooting of analytical instruments.

• Perform daily instrument maintenance and troubleshooting to secure high uptime and data quality.
• Support instrument qualification activities and help ensure instruments remain in a qualified state.
• Carry out equipment maintenance, basic repairs, and coordination of service visits when needed.
• Handle sample management, including receipt, registration, storage, and internal logistics.
• Contribute to laboratory management tasks, such as ordering consumables, monitoring inventories, and maintaining a well‑organized lab environment.
• Support scientists in project execution and method development through instrument setup, sequence preparation, and test runs.
• Support standardization and automation of laboratory workflows.

Instruments you may work with include LC–Orbitrap MS systems (Thermo), Bruker TIMS TOF instruments and GC‑MS platforms from Agilent and LECO.

• Technical education as a laboratory technician, instrument technician, engineer, or similar.
• Hands‑on experience with maintenance and operation of analytical instruments, ideally including LC‑MS and/or GC‑MS.
• Strong practical troubleshooting skills and a systematic approach to fault finding.
• Comfortable working with technical documentation, logs, and maintenance records.
• Full professional proficiency in English (written and spoken).

• Experience with Thermo Orbitrap LC‑MS, Agilent or LECO GC‑MS, and/or Bruker TIMS TOF instruments.
• Experience working in a quality‑controlled or regulated laboratory environment (e.g., GLP, ISO 17025, or similar).
• Familiarity with instrument qualification (IQ/OQ/PQ) and documentation of maintenance activities.
• Previous experience in a service, support, or core facility setting.

• Technically curious, structured, and solution‑oriented.
• Able to work independently and take ownership of instrument performance and lab infrastructure.
• Good communication and collaboration skills with scientists, technicians, and external service engineers.
• Reliable, proactive, and comfortable handling multiple tasks in parallel.

• Opportunity to work with state‑of‑the‑art analytical instrumentation in microbiome and metabolomics research.
• A dynamic, international, and collaborative work environment.
• Close collaboration with experienced scientists and technicians in Denmark and the US.
• Flexible and supportive workplace with room for professional development.
• Competitive salary, health insurance, paid holidays, pension and lunch scheme (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: “ Instrument 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.