Lab Technician

Lab Technician / Lab Assistant

Tiverton

£31,000
 
Manucomm Recruitment are recruiting a Lab Technician / Lab Assistant for a leading food /drink manufacturing company at one of their sites based near Taunton. This is an ideal opportunity for a person with an interest in both laboratory and administration tasks.  The successful person will report into the Quality Manager and will be happy working on rotating continental Day and Night 12 hour shifts.

Working as part of a team of 10 you will be working a rotating shift system on nights and days. As the team is quite small it is important that you are a team player and are happy to be hands on.  The successful Laboratory Technician will either be experienced or may be a science graduate / science A level candidate looking to develop a career in a busy lab environment.

As the Laboratory Technician / Laboratory Assistant you will be responsible for: -

• Carrying out Analytical analysis of products
• Ensuring the Laboratory records are maintained and filed to satisfy Quality standards
• Ensuring that the equipment is calibrated as appropriate
• Monitoring the fermentations, record the analysis, enter results on SAP and feedback to the Quality Supervisor
• Ensuring all required information is entered onto SAP
• Recording incoming raw materials and entering on SAP

The successful candidate will have: -

• ·Previous Lab experience ideally in a food /drink environment or have lab experience and strong desire to have a lab career
• ·Good computer skills and happy to carry out administration tasks
• ·Enthusiasm to learn and apply new skills
• ·Good communication skills
• ·Excellent communication skills
• ·Be a Team player

This role is commutable from Taunton, Honiton, Cullompton, Tiverton, Wellington, and Exeter and will suit a candidate that may have worked as a Laboratory Analyst, Laboratory Technician, R&D Technicain, QC Technician.  The salary includes a shift premium