Title: Laboratory Team Leader
Location: Telford, Shropshire
Salary: £33,000 - £35,000 per annum (dependent upon experience)
About the role:
The Cattle Information Service are seeking two experienced Laboratory Team Leaders to provide support to the Laboratory Manager in running their very high-throughput milk testing laboratory.
With purpose-built state of the art laboratory facilities, CIS are a well-established and leading provider of nutritional and health testing services for dairy and beef farmers in the UK. With a UKAS 17025 accredited laboratory in Telford, they are very well-known with a fantastic reputation in the market.
With a fantastic senior leadership team to support, they are looking for strong team leaders - people who can lead, prioritise and resource teams effectively in a fast-moving, high-throughput laboratory. The position would be well suited to a Senior Lab Analyst looking to take a step up, or an experienced Team Leader looking to develop their career further.
Important note: this role is a shift-based role so candidates need their own transport and be willing to work a 4 on, 4 off shift pattern including weekends.
About you:
You'll bring:
- Recent, proven experience of managing a team of Analysts in an ISO accredited laboratory (ideally in a contract-testing laboratory but other sectors will be considered)
- Or recent, proven experience as a Senior Analyst in an ISO accredited lab looking to take a step up into team management
- Strong organisational capability in resource planning and workload prioritisation
- Excellent leadership, communication skills and high attention to detail
- Excellent leadership and interpersonal skills
- A real passion for team development and management
- The willingness and ability to work on a shift pattern including weekend working
- A full UK driving licence and own transport to get to site.
What you'll be responsible for:
- Managing a team of 5 Lab Assistants and Lab Analysts, supervising the compositional testing of a high throughput of samples
- Overseeing the daily running of the lab to ensure rapid turnaround of samples to meet deadlines
- Managing sample workflow throughout the lab, ensuring adequate resource allocation
- Identifying training needs and monitoring development of the team
- Training staff and regular performance reviews
- Maintaining laboratory compliance including ISO17025, H&S and COSHH
- Investigating and reporting any out-of-spec results
- Writing reports and maintaining documentation such as equipment calibration checks
- Reviewing current laboratory processes to understand improvement areas
Why join the Cattle Information Service?
- Great opportunity to develop team leadership skills further
- Work in a supportive and inclusive environment with a great senior leadership team
- Join a well-established and leading company with a great reputation in the market
- Competitive salary and benefits including private medical insurance.
Guidant, Carbon60, Lorien & SRG - The Vertage Group Portfolio are acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.
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