Laboratory Team Leader

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