Feeling the Chemistry?

Description

A multinational environmental consultancy is currently seeking a GC-MS Team Leader to join its brand new, state of the art facility based in Bedford. Working within their analytical team, you will lead the GC-MS Section to ensure that all analysis is completed according to customer required timeframes and to the required quality standards.

This is a fantastic opportunity for an individual with significant GC-MS experience, coupled with supervisory exposure to join a world recognised business and develop a successful career focused to analytical chemistry.

GC-MS Team Leader Responsibilities

Responsibilities

• Lead the Section to ensure that all analysis is completed according to customer required timeframes and to the required quality standards.
• Responsible for technical performance of all methods within the Section, ensuring that all methods are fit for purpose.
• Provide a horizon scanning function for emerging technologies, methodologies and analytical requirements that can ensure differentiation from other laboratories and which make a material impact on the profitability of the business.
• Responsible for the development, optimisation, and validation of methods for analysis of a range of trace and ultra-trace environmental contaminants in complex matrices.
• Provides technical oversight for the Section, providing technical guidance to staff working within the Section.

GC-MS Team Leader Requirements

• Educated to a degree qualification in Chemistry/Analytical Chemistry or closely related field of study.
• Extensive experience using GC-MS instrumentation, ideally for the analysis of trace environmental contaminants.
• Experience working within a fast-paced, commercial analytical testing laboratory.
• Significant demonstrable experience working at a senior level within a commercial testing laboratory, and preferably within the environmental, water or similar sector.
• Proven experience of developing, implementing, and validating testing methods using single and/or triple quadrupole GC-MS systems.
• Experience leading, directing and motivating a small team of Scientists.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to communicate effectively at different levels within an organisation.