Laboratory Technician Apprentice

You will support day-to-day laboratory operations, including sample preparation, testing, data recording and equipment maintenance, while ensuring compliance with health, safety and quality standards. You will be contributing to accurate and efficient workflows and developing core technical skills essential for future career progression. Most of your apprenticeship is spent working. You’ll learn on the job by getting hands‑on experience.

What you’ll do at work:

• Work closely with experienced applications professionals, rotating across the applications functions.
• Prepare and carry out laboratory tests and experiments following standard operating procedure.
• Accurately record and analyse data using appropriate software and reporting tools.
• Maintain laboratory equipment and ensure calibration and cleanliness.
• Follow strict health and safety protocols, including COSHH and risk assessments.
• Assist in stock control and ordering of laboratory consumables.
• Communicate effectively with colleagues and contribute to team projects.

Where you’ll work:

Grovewood Road, Malvern, Worcestershire, WR14 1XZ

Training:

Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.

Comply with health and safety policies and procedures including HASWA, COSHH, risk assessments, use of personal protective equipment (PPE), manual handling, emergency procedures.

Maintain excellent housekeeping, in accordance with organisation Standard Procedures.

Order and control stocks of laboratory materials where required.

Identify, organise and use resources effectively to complete tasks applying the concepts of resource efficiency e.g. energy, water and waste.

Adhere to internal and external regulatory requirements e.g. GLP, GMP, GDP.

Prepare for, and perform, laboratory experiments, tests or tasks following any specified methodologies to provide reliable, accurate data e.g. weighing, pipetting, filtering, spectroscopic techniques, chromatography techniques.

Demonstrate technical competence in the use of specified instruments and equipment.

Report faults and seek diagnostic advice to maintain equipment in good working order, including calibration where required.

Complete documentation proficiently.

Keep accurate records of laboratory work undertaken and results.

Contribute to the preparation of reports.

Use simple statistical techniques for data presentation and evaluation e.g. calculation of median and standard deviation, production of graphs.

Demonstrate problem solving techniques including identification of sources of error and how they can be reduced e.g. human error.

Use standard software packages and applications e.g. Microsoft Office suite.

Use Laboratory Information Management systems to support their work.

Address non-routine problems with samples and instrumentation, within defined areas.

Identify relevant information from scientific sources e.g. supervisors, literature etc. in order to contribute to solutions.

Participate in continuous performance improvement of systems and processes relevant to the work environment e.g. workplace organisation techniques, accreditation (e.g. ISO, UKAS) and proficiency testing.

Evaluate data, recognise and call attention to anomalous or unusual results.

You will undertake a Level 3 Laboratory Technician Apprenticeship with an Ofsted rated 'Outstanding' training provider, CSR Scientific Training, which will include:

• Fully recognised apprenticeship qualification – Level 3 Laboratory Technician.
• On‑the‑job competency training.
• Theoretical knowledge – BTEC Level 3 Applied Science (if required).

The majority of your learning will be completed online once a week with some face‑to‑face practical sessions/exams in Birmingham (if BTEC is included). Upon successful completion, apprentices can apply for professional registration as a Registered Science Technician, RSciTech, with either the Institute of Physics, Royal Society of Chemistry or Royal Society of Biology.

Requirements:

• GCSE in: Any / Other Subject (grade 4/C or above).
• English (grade 4/C or above).
• Maths (grade 4/C or above).
• Science (grade 4/C or above).

Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.

Skills:

• Analytical skills.
• Logical.
• Creative.
• Initiative.

Other requirements:

To give yourself the best chance, please ensure your application is genuine and written in your own words. Applications solely created with AI tools will not be accepted.

About this employer:

We partner with many of the world’s leading companies and institutions to help them discover, design, and improve the material and life sciences solutions their customers rely on daily to live, work, and stay healthy. We unleash the power of small things to make big things happen for our customers. We’re big on small. Malvern Panalytical has been at the heart of material and life sciences for more than 80 years. By enabling our customers to understand the small things invisible to the human eye – the chemical, physical, and structural make-up of the products and materials modern societies rely on every day – we empower them to make big things happen; from improving the energies that power our lives and enhancing the concrete we build with, to developing the vaccines that treat us and making the foods we enjoy taste better. We partner with our customers to make their solutions possible through the power of precision measurements, our expertise, trusted data and insights. Our customers are at the centre of everything we do. They trust our precision instruments to get the data and insights they need to make their solutions possible and impactful. They also value the knowledge, rigor, and creative thinking of our experts to shape discovery methodologies, analyse results, and recommend solutions. After this apprenticeship, the apprentice will have a deep knowledge of how our instruments work and are used by our customers, allowing them to continue on the applications team, moving into application specialist and following the application career path or move into parts of the business like sales, R&D, continuous improvement, operations, etc.