An outstanding opportunity for a dedicated and ambitious individual to join the team as a Researcher – Core Inorganic Analysis. This is your chance to play a crucial role in delivering precise and high-accuracy elemental analysis, contributing to ground breaking metrology research and commercial projects!
Key Responsibilities:
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to capably perform each of the following essential duties:
- Perform high-accuracy elemental analysis tasks adhering to established, frequently accredited methods for analyses within commercial and metrology research environments.
- Work under the supervision of the Senior Researcher Inorganic Analysis and with input from the Elemental Lab Manager to deliver reference measurements and calibration services.
- Support research project and commercial delivery in other areas, such as isotope ratio analysis, when needed.
Essential Knowledge and Qualifications:
- Education: A degree or equivalent experience in chemistry with at least 2 years of practical experience in analytical chemistry applications, whether in industrial or academic research settings (e.g., PhD or equivalent experience).
- Technical Skills: Verified experience and knowledge in using multiple sample preparation approaches relevant to high-accuracy elemental analysis. Operation of ICP-MS is mandatory.
- Communication Skills: Ability to display good communication skills, both oral and written.
- Collaboration: Ability to maintain effective working relationships within and across teams within the NML.
Desired Knowledge and Qualifications:
- Experience in operation of a variety of inorganic analytical techniques and sample preparation methods including microwave digestion, IDMS approaches, exact standard matching calibrations, ICP-MS/MS, ICP-OES.
- Experience working under ISO/IEC 17025 quality management systems
- Knowledge and/or experience of applying metrology is beneficial
ABOUT LGC:
LGC is a leading, global life science tools company, providing mission-critical components and solutions into high-growth application areas across the human healthcare and applied market segments. Its high-quality product portfolio is comprised of mission-critical tools for genomic analysis and for quality assurance applications, which are typically embedded and recurring within our customers’ products and workflows and are valued for their performance, quality, and range.
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