Experimental Officer in Metabolomics - Birmingham, United Kingdom - University of Birmingham

University of Birmingham

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Birmingham, United Kingdom

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Position Details
School of Biosciences

Location:
University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham UK

Full time starting salary is normally in the range £34,980 to £44,263 with potential progression once in post to £46,974

Grade 7

Full Time, Fixed Term contract up to January 2026

Closing date: 28th November 2023

Please do note this role relates to in which due to business needs we will only be recruiting 1 vacancy between the two roles

Our offer to you
People are at the heart of what we are and do.

The University of Birmingham is proud to have been a part of the City of Birmingham and the wider region for over 100 years, and we are equally proud to be recognised as a leading global university.

We want to attract talented people from across the city and beyond, support them to succeed, and celebrate their success.

We are committed to helping the people who work here to develop through our sector-leading Birmingham Professional programme which provides all professional services staff with development opportunities and the encouragement to reach their full potential.

With almost 5,000 professional services jobs in a wide-range of functions in Edgbaston and in our campus in Dubai, there are plenty of opportunities for you to be able to develop your career at the University.

We believe there is no such thing as a typical member of staff and that diversity is a source of strength that underpins the exchange of ideas, innovation, and debate.

We warmly welcome people from all backgrounds and are committed to fostering an inclusive environment where diversity is at the heart of who and what we are, and how we work.

Supporting our people to achieve a healthy work/life balance is important both to our employees and to the success of the University and, depending on the role, we offer a variety of flexible working arrangements.

We therefore welcome discussions on all forms of flexible working.

In addition, you will receive a generous package of benefits including 40 days paid holiday a year, one paid day a year for volunteering, occupational sick pay, and a pension scheme.

We also have three high quality subsidised day nurseries.

The University is situated in leafy Edgbaston and there are excellent transport links to our beautiful campus, including main bus routes and a train station on site.

On campus we have a state-of-the-art sports centre with pool, shops, places to eat and drink, our own art gallery, museum and botanical gardens.

Find out more about the benefits of working for the University of Birmingham

Background

Over the past 7 years, Phenome Centre Birmingham (PCB) has built an international reputation specialising in toxicological and biomedical metabolomics to improve our mechanistic understanding of the effects of chemicals and disease on human health, and to identify predictive biomarkers.

The centre implements and delivers state-of-the-art metabolomics research services to academia, industry and government, both locally, nationally and internationally.

The PCB contributes significantly to the University of Birmingham's international reputation in metabolomics, enabling it to undertake high impact (inter)national projects that benefit the global population.

The 20 million Euro PrecisionTox project, led by the University of Birmingham and involving 15 European and US organisations, blends advanced molecular and computational approaches with law and economics to establish a new cost-effective testing paradigm for assessing the safety of chemicals.

The PrecisionTox project seeks to revolutionise toxicology, replace animal testing, and reduce uncertainty in chemical safety assessment.

Metabolomics lies at the heart of PrecisionTox, with the PCB providing all of the metabolic phenotyping capability for the world's largest comparative, multi-omics toxicological study.

Role Summary

Main Duties

Perform sample preparation methods, both manual and using stateofthe art Beckmann Coulter robotics platforms. The focus is to maximise metabolite extraction while enabling highthroughput sample handling of low biomass samples.
Maintain accurate and comprehensive records of protocols and procedures applied during study planning, sample preparation, and LC-MS data acquisition all within a QA/QC environment.
Ensure optimal operation of PCB instrumentation, including routine maintenance and troubleshooting instrumental problems, to meet goals in a timely and efficient manner.
Potential to implement novel metabolic phenotyping methodologies to enhance the capabilities and capacity of the PCB.
Work with the PCB scientific leads and business manager to achieve the objectives of the PCB and manage the expectations of collaborators.
Contribute to the dissemination of highquality research in peerreviewed journals, scientific conferences and to the general public.
Potential to provide training, where needed, in liquid chromatography and mass spectrometry within