Scientist in Witney, Oxfordshire

Our client is a world-renowned, global healthcare and medical device manufacturer with a major state-of-the-art facility based in Witney. Known for their life-changing medical technologies, they offer an incredibly stable, supportive, and structured working environment

We are looking for graduate or early career scientist. Some experience in industry is preferable but not essential.

Role: Scientist

Location: Witney

Salary: £30,000 p.a- £35,000 p.a

Work hours: 37.5 hours a week

Job type: 12 Months

Roles and Responsibilities

• Perform testing to protocol or procedure whilst adhering to good laboratory practice
• Develop protocols to accomplish goals
• Produce prototype product or communicate protoype requirements to support experiments.
• Utilise analytical instruments and train others in their operation
• Participate in experimental design discussions, identify variables that may impact experimental results
• Analyse data, evaluate results and form conclusions
• Prepares effective summaries of results and communicates these to wider team
• Compile and maintain records as required by good laboratory practice
• Writes clear and technically correct reports with feedback from colleagues
• Liase with other departments and present technical information to team meetings
• Have awareness of change control procedures applicable to role
• Know and apply knowledge of health and safety procedures
• Responsible for own laboratory notebook and for the accuracy, quality and timeliness of experimental results
• Ensures that all work complies with the quality system
• Uses scientific and industry literature to broaden technical and theoretical understanding
• Highlights improvement opportunities to manager

Basic Qualifications

• Good written and oral communication skills
• Good working knowledge of software packages such as Word, Excel and Powerpoint to analyse data, present results and write reports
• Experience of working in a laboratory, scientific or technical environment

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