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Senior Technical Officer for the Magan Centre of Applied Mycology

Employer
CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY
Location
Cranfield, United Kingdom
Salary
£37,337 per annum
Closing date
9 Feb 2025
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Job Details

Faculty or Department: Faculty of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Based at: Cranfield Campus, Cranfield, Bedfordshire
Hours of work: 37 hours per week, normally worked Monday to Friday. Flexible working will be considered.
Contract type: Fixed term contract
Fixed Term Period: Until 31 July 2029
Salary: Full time starting salary is normally in the range of £37,337 per annum
Apply by: 09/02/2025

Role Description

We are inviting applicants passionate about analytical chemistry to join our new Magan Centre of Applied Mycology as a Senior Technical Officer.

About the Role

The Applied Mycology Group recently secured funding for the creation of the Magan Centre of Applied Mycology (MCAM) expected to grow from four staff to 36 by 2031-32. Your role will be to manage and operate key analytical equipment within MCAM ensuring the effective execution of various analyses that support research and teaching activities.  

About You

You will have a degree qualification in the relevant scientific discipline or equivalent significant experience, in-depth technical know-how in the relevant scientific area gained over a significant number of years. You will require expertise in methods for decontaminating work surfaces, equipment, and waste materials, including the use of autoclaves, chemical disinfectants. You will be proficient in the use of microscopes to study fungal structures and chromatography, mass spectrometry for targeted and untargeted analysis for quantification and characterisation of compounds of interest. You will possess skills in DNA extraction, PCR, gel electrophoresis, and bioinformatics tools for fungal identification.

Ability to prioritise tasks, work under pressure and to strict deadlines to meet key milestones whilst ensuring excellent verbal, written communication and interpersonal skills.

About Us

As a specialist postgraduate university, Cranfield’s world-class expertise, large-scale facilities and unrivalled industry partnerships are creating leaders in technology and management globally. Learn more about Cranfield and our unique impact here.

The project will be part of the Environment and Agrifood Theme, one of eight themes at Cranfield University offering world-class and niche post-graduate level research, education, training and consultancy. The MCAM will aim to expand the Applied Mycology Group's expertise beyond food and expand to the other Themes at Cranfield.

Our Values and Commitments

Our shared, stated values help to define who we are and underpin everything we do: Ambition; Impact; Respect; and Community. Find out more here.

We aim to create and maintain a culture in which everyone can work and study together and realise their full potential. We are a Disability Confident Employer and proud members of the Stonewall Diversity Champions Programme. We are committed to actively exploring flexible working options for each role and have been ranked in the Top 30 family friendly employers in the UK by the charity Working Families. Find out more about our key commitments to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion and Flexible Working here.

As part of our commitment to support and develop Technical staff across the University, we are a founding signatory of the Science Council's Technician Commitment. Find out more here.

Working Arrangements

Collaborating and connecting are integral to so much of what we do. Our Working Arrangements Framework provides many staff with the opportunity to flexibly combine on-site and remote working, where job roles allow, balancing the needs of our community of staff, students, clients, and partners.

How to apply

For an informal discussion about this opportunity, please contact Angel Medina Vaya, Professor and Director of Environment, Agrifood and Water, on (E): a.medinavaya@cranfield.ac.uk.

Please do not hesitate to contact us for further details on (E): peoplerecruitment@cranfield.ac.uk. Please quote reference number 5001.

Closing date for receipt of applications: 9 February 2024

Deadline to fill the Equality, Diversity & Inclusion complementary survey: 12.00pm (UK time) on 13 February 2024

(This is mandatory but does not form part of the selection process, the surveys will not be shared with the recruiting manager or shortlisting panel)

Company

Cranfield is world-leading in its contribution to global innovation. With our emphasis on the aerospace, agrifood, defence and security, environmental technology, leadership and management, manufacturing and transport systems sectors, we have changed the way society thinks, works and learns.

We generate and transform knowledge, translating it to the benefit of society. Our partners, from micro SMEs to the largest blue-chip multinationals, from governments across the world to NGOs and charities, tell us this is what they value about Cranfield.

Innovation is part of Cranfield’s ‘corporate DNA’, evolved over 60 years of commitment to this agenda.

Our work informs policy for governments and produces new technologies and products for the world of commerce. We draw on this pool of research and consultancy to provide our students with a distinctive ‘real-world’ learning environment, allowing them to develop as professionals and transfer their new knowledge to the global economy. This has always been the ‘Cranfield way’ but it has never been more important than in today’s world.

People are key to our competitive advantage and so we need to attract, develop and retain the best talent for our business. We aim to create a culture where you can flourish and succeed and, in turn, contribute towards Cranfield’s success.

Company info
Telephone
+(44)01234 750111
Location
CRANFIELD
CRANFIELD
BEDFORDSHIRE
MK43 0AL
GB

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