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Biomaterials technician

Employer
KINGS COLLEGE LONDON
Location
London (Central), London (Greater) (GB)
Salary
£33,114 to £37,804 per annum
Closing date
3 Jul 2022

Job Details

Job description

A biomaterials laboratory specialist is required for the management, maintenance and operation of the biomaterials laboratory for the user community, and to provide support for postgraduate and undergraduate research projects 

They should have knowledge in mechanical, thermal, and general biomaterials equipment testing, ideally with an engineering background. 

In addition, the postholder will utilise engineering or equipment servicing knowledge to provide minor maintenance and repair to the dental clinical skills laboratory equipment. 

This post will be offered on an indefinite contract  

This is a full-time post

Key responsibilities

  • To provide management, maintenance and operation of the biomaterials laboratory for the user community
  • To have knowledge in mechanical, thermal and general biomaterials equipment testing, ideally with an engineering background.
  • To utilise engineering knowledge to maintain and repair the dental clinical skills laboratory equipment.
  • Become expert and manage specialist equipment access e.g. fatigue and static loading machines, thermal analysis equipment
  • Operate highly specialized machinery e.g. TA (Bose) testing machines, lnstron testing machines, DMA, DSC, FTIR equipment.
  • Maintain close links with our partner Trusts (e.g. GSTT Medical Physics workshops) to develop tools and jigs for use in the Biomaterials laboratories.

Essential criteria

  1. Relevant technical experience
  2. Biomaterials background
  3. Use and experience of biomaterials equipment
  4. Adaptability to use engineering knowledge to support clinical skills
  5. Other technical experience
  6. Innovation
  7. Time management
  8. Team working
  9. Good communication

Desirable criteria

  1. Professional registration, achieved or working towards

Company

King's College London is one of the top 20 universities in the world and among the oldest in England. King's has more than 27,600 students (of whom nearly 10,500 are graduate students) from some 150 countries worldwide, and some 6,800 staff.

King's has an outstanding reputation for world-class teaching and cutting-edge research. In the 2014 Research Excellence Framework (REF) King’s was ranked 6th nationally in the ‘power’ ranking, which takes into account both the quality and quantity of research activity, and 7th for quality according to Times Higher Education rankings. Eighty-four per cent of research at King’s was deemed ‘world-leading’ or ‘internationally excellent’ (3* and 4*). The university is in the top seven UK universities for research earnings and has an overall annual income of more than £684 million.

King's has a particularly distinguished reputation in the humanities, law, the sciences (including a wide range of health areas such as psychiatry, medicine, nursing and dentistry) and social sciences including international affairs. It has played a major role in many of the advances that have shaped modern life, such as the discovery of the structure of DNA and research that led to the development of radio, television, mobile phones and radar.

King's College London and Guy's and St Thomas', King's College Hospital and South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trusts are part of King's Health Partners. King's Health Partners Academic Health Sciences Centre (AHSC) is a pioneering global collaboration between one of the world's leading research-led universities and three of London's most successful NHS Foundation Trusts, including leading teaching hospitals and comprehensive mental health services. For more information, visit: www.kingshealthpartners.org.

King’s £600 million campaign, World questions|KING’s answers, has delivered huge global impact in areas where King’s has particular expertise. Philanthropic support has funded new research to save young lives at Evelina London Children’s Hospital; established the King’s Dickson Poon School of Law as a worldwide leader in transnational law; built a new Cancer Centre at Guy’s Hospital; allowed unique collaboration between leading neuroscientists to fast-track new treatments for Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, motor neurone disease, depression and schizophrenia at the new Maurice Wohl Clinical Neuroscience Institute; created the Cicely Saunders Institute: the first academic institution in the world dedicated to palliative care, and supported the King’s Sierra Leone Partnership in the Ebola crisis. Donations provide over 300 of the most promising students with scholarships and bursaries each year. More information about the campaign is available at www.kcl.ac.uk/kingsanswers.

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KINGS COLLEGE LONDON
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LONDON
WC2R 2LS
United Kingdom

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