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SGS’s Food industry services help ensure food safety, quality, and compliance through testing, inspection, certification, and auditing—supporting businesses across the supply chain from farm to fork. 

• Job Title: Laboratory Team Leader - Contamination  
• Job Type: Temporary 12 Months 
• Location: Cambridge 
• Hours: Monday to Friday 8.30am to 5pm 
• Salary:  from £28,000 pa 
• Industry: Health & Nutrition - Food 

Overview

• To manage the maintenance and operation of blending & extraction instrumentation to enable high standards of analytical preparation, ensuring that requirements of ISO 17025 (accredited by UKAS) are met.
• Manage and supervise a team of technicians, including scheduling, workload allocation, and performance monitoring, driving performance, compliance, and continuous improvement
• Lead and support a team of technicians within the Blending and extraction lab
• Oversee calibration of equipment and quality requirements are met in the department.
• Manage inventory of consumables, reagents, and spare parts to ensure uninterrupted operations.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams such as Quality Assurance, R&D, or Production to support business goals

The ideal candidate for this role is someone who has experience already in a senior lab position and looking to take their next step up, or a junior team leader looking for a better fit! 

• Degree level qualified in Chemistry 
• Experience with working in a contract laboratory 
• Experience in working in a high volume turnaround environment 

At SGS, we believe in rewarding our employees for their hard work and commitment. As part of our team, you would be eligible for:

• Competitive pension scheme
• Generous Annual Leave allowance (increasing with service) plus bank holidays

SGS is an Equal Opportunity Employer, and as such we recruit, hire, train, and promote persons in all job classifications without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, national origin, disability, age, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetics, status as a protected veteran, or any other characteristics protected by law. 

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