Lab Manager

Salary: £48,000 – £54,000 per year

Lab Manager

Denton

Salary £48,000 – £54,000DOE

Permanent

We are currently working with a well-established chemical company who specialise in the supply and manufacture of aromatic, heterocyclic and aliphatic compounds. They are looking for a lab manager to efficiently run and maintain their laboratories in Denton.

What you’ll do:

As Lab Manager, you will work with a team of 10 scientists to oversee the laboratory.

Your duties will include:

• Managing the day-to-day running of the lab and ensuring safety and efficiency of operations.
• Updating Lab policies and SOPs to reflect changes in business needs.
• Act as a point of reference to chemists about any lab related issues.
• Providing advice and quotations to sales staff on laboratory produced products.
• Purchasing starting materials, submitting them to the stock control system and managing the cost of the produced items.
• Prepare a business case for potential new products/product areas for development within our laboratory and items to be outsourced, to be discussed with CTO, with final sign off from CTO.
• Attending exhibitions, conferences and customer visits where required, to promote the lab capabilities, industry knowledge and identify and develop partners for outsourcing projects.
• Carry out risk assessments in accordance with COSHH guidelines.

Your background

The ideal candidate will have a PhD in Chemistry with at least 5 years’ experience in a production/research environment, with good technical knowledge of Synthetic Organic Chemistry. You will have proven experience of strong team leadership within a lab environment and excellent interpersonal and communication skills.

Experience of writing experimental documentation, good organisation skills and commercial awareness will be an advantage in this role.

On this occasion LiCa Scientific is acting as an employment agency