REF 1761815
20.03.2025 | Dubai | full time
- General
- Location: Dubai
- Occupancy: full time
- To join : immediately
- Description
- Job Purpose
Senior Laboratory Technician is responsible for the set-up, operation, and maintenance of laboratory facilities, equipment. He/she is also responsible for lab inventory, processing new equipment installation, graphene and 2D materials (G2DM) synthesis using various procedures, and operation of certain sophisticated equipment, in order to maintain a smooth operation of the center labs and a steady production of G2DM for the center and its industrial partner.
Key Roles & Responsibilities
Operational Responsibilities
• Support scientific investigations and experiments, demonstrating procedures
• Set up equipment for use in labs, ensure proper operation of equipment and report operating deficiencies
• Planning, setting up and undertaking controlled experiments and trials, recording and analyzing data
• Perform laboratory tests in order to produce reliable and precise data to support scientific investigations, collecting, preparing and/or testing samples
• Develop new or improved methods of testing.
• Work on constructing, maintaining and operating major laboratory equipment, for example XRD, FTIR, Raman, AFM, CVD, TGA, XPS, etc.
• Prepare equipment specifications for procurement that highly specialized skills and knowledge from instruction and rough sketches to technical specifications
• Provide highly specialist and technical advice to research students and researchers in the design of experiments or equipment.
• Service and maintain major systems within the center, including the dismantling, cleaning, inspection and re-assembly and disposal of hazardous waste as required.
• Carry out routine tasks accurately and following strict methodologies
• Prepare and collate results for interpretation by self and others.
• Record and present results to present to senior colleagues, and write reports, reviews and summaries
• Keep up to date with technical developments, especially those which can save time and improve reliability, conducting searches on identified topics relevant to research within the center
• Follow and ensure strict safety procedures and safety checks, maintaining, calibrating, cleaning and testing sterility of the equipment, carrying out risk assessments
• Train junior members of staff in technical skills with the aim of transferring knowledge and experience.
• Ensuring the laboratory is well-stocked and resourced
• Adhere to the Universitys information security and confidentiality policies and procedures, and report breaches or other security risks accordingly
• Coordinate with other departments to facilitate the accomplishment of tasks and responsibilities, as and when needed
• Perform any other tasks assigned by the Line Manager
- Requirements
- Experience: 5 years minimum
- Provisions
- Salary: to be discussed
- Residence visa provided
- Publisher
- recruitment agency
- more than 200 employees