Laboratory Supervisor - Nottingham, United Kingdom - We Are Pioneer Group Limited

Description

Laboratory Supervisor

Based at:
BioCity Nottingham

Reporting to:
Director (Incubator Services)

Salary Range:
£25-£30K

Full-time | Permanent

Background
Pioneer Group's mission is to help high-tech businesses thrive in tackling challenges in both human and planetary health.

Across the UK and Ireland, Pioneer integrates the provision of mission critical real estate and venture building and venture investment within powerful sector-specific business-focused communities to create environments in which businesses are more likely to succeed.

Its track record for doing so stretches back to 2003.

Pioneer Group have ten (10) locations across the UK and Ireland, creating the largest community of science and technology companies in Europe.

Access to scientific equipment and shared laboratory services is a key part of our offering to our companies and one that we are looking to expand in the coming months and years.

This is the ideal time to join a key department in an exciting high-growth company.

We are all driven by the desire to help build successful life science companies with the potential to have a world-changing impact.

We are now looking for the next team member with the same passion.


Purpose

As Laboratory Supervisor, you will deliver Lab Services at BioCity Nottingham in a smooth and efficient fashion to the satisfaction of all customers and play a supportive role in setting up the Co-Labs across the Pioneer Group.

The Role

As Laboratory Supervisor, you will be responsible for the daily running of the NMR lab (Co-Lab premium), Utility rooms, and Rent a bench lab (Co-Lab) in Nottingham.

You will work with the Director (Incubator Services) on implementing the strategy for Lab Services by helping the site team across the Pioneer Group to set up (Co-Lab), Utility rooms and Co-Lab premium laboratories.

You will also work closely with the Director of the Corporate Relationship and marketing team to organise lab-specific events like the Lab Suppliers Fair.

The outputs of your efforts will be measured by retaining and expanding the analytical services in Nottingham, minimising the downtime of the equipment in the Utility rooms and high-end equipment like NMR and the success of the Suppliers Fair events across the Group.

Duties and Responsibilities

You will have primary responsibility for:

NMR (Nuclear Magnetic Resonance)

• You will be responsible for the operation and daily maintenance of the Bruker Avance III 400 MHz NMR, which includes carrying out QC tests like Line shape test, Proton and Carbon sensitivity test.
• Troubleshooting of the NMR spectrometer and TopSpin 3.2 software.
• Your role will also be to support existing occupiers and external users in preparing NMR samples, running the samples on the NMR and sending the data to the end users. Keeping a log of the samples run on the NMR to help with the accounting at the end of the month.
• You will proactively look at weekly maintenance like Nitrogen fill and organise the helium fill with the supplier in time.
• You will support the occupiers by providing them with equipment familiarisation training for the NMR.
• You will be dealing with lab consumable suppliers to negotiate the best deal for the NMR consumables.
• You will work with the Director (Incubator Services) to help increase Lab Services revenue by proactively looking for new external users for the NMR.
• You will also be responsible for drafting SOP and risk assessments for the NMR lab.

Utility Room, Tissue Culture lab and Co-Lab:

• You will be instrumental in the smooth running of the Co-Lab, tissue culture lab and utility room by managing the booking system, drafting and updating the policies and procedures for the lab, and reviewing the risk assessments from the end users using the labs.
• You will be responsible for drafting the operating instructions for the equipment in the tissue culture lab and organising the training for the end users with the equipment manufacturers for plate readers.
• You will be responsible for ensuring the tissue culture lab (especially the class II safety hood) and Co-Lab is cleaned and disposal of the clinical and chemical waste solvent, thereby minimising the chance of crosscontamination in the labs.
• You will liaise with the maintenance support suppliers to organise the yearly maintenance, calibration and troubleshooting of the equipment in the tissue culture lab, Co-Lab and utility room.
• You will work with the individual site team across the group to help them review the risk assessment, prepare SOP, and help them procure equipment by liaising with the lab equipment suppliers (Fisher, SLS, VWR).
• You will help Director (Incubator services) in conjunction with the site team to identify ideal locations for the Co-Labs, Utility room and tissue culture lab.

Suppliers' fair and lab-based events:

• You will lead in planning and organising the supplier's fairs events across the group by wor