School Technician presso Cardiff University

School Technician 
School of Medicine
College of Biomedical and Life Sciences

The School of Medicine, based at the Hadyn Ellis Building, is seeking a laboratory Technician to work as part of a Core technical team providing on-site technical support within the School of Medicine, providing advice, guidance, and specialist technical expertise to the research community. 

Cardiff University offers many excellent benefits, including 40 days annual leave (including bank holidays), local pension scheme, a cycle to work scheme and other travel initiatives, annual increments within the pay scale, and more.  It is an exciting and vibrant place to work, with many different challenges and is a proud Living Wage supporter.

For an informal, confidential discussion about the role, please contact Emma Dalton, Laboratory Manager [email protected]

The posts are full-time (35 hours per week), open-ended and available immediately.

Salary: £25,249 - £26,093 per annum (Grade 3).  Appointments to roles at Cardiff University are usually made at bottom of scale unless in exceptional circumstances.

Date advert posted: Wednesday, 1 October 2025

Closing date: Wednesday, 15 October 2025

Cardiff University is committed to supporting and promoting equality and diversity and to creating an inclusive working environment. We believe this can be achieved through attracting, developing, and retaining a diverse range of staff from many different backgrounds. We therefore welcome applicants from all sections of the community regardless of sex, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, trans identity, relationship status, religion or belief, caring responsibilities, or age.  In supporting our employees to achieve a balance between their work and their personal lives, we will also consider proposals for flexible working or job share arrangements.

Applications may be submitted in Welsh, and an application submitted in Welsh will not be treated less favourably than an application submitted in English.

To provide professional technical support to the School of Medicine.

Duties and Responsibilities

Key Duties

• Provide a service to staff and students by maintaining, servicing and repairing materials, machinery and equipment to support research divisions within laboratory environments in the School of Medicine, advising and training staff and students on their safe and appropriate use using established guidelines (Standard Operating Procedures)
• Prepare all materials and equipment as necessary for customers use and ensure area of responsible is kept clean and tidy
• Undertake stock control, ensuring adequate security and levels of stock are maintained and stock is distributed as required
• Deal with routine enquires from internal and external customers in a professional manner, following established procedures, referring complex enquires to relevant staff members, ensuring all relevant facts and information needed is recorded and passed on
• Assist in the maintenance of routine records, updating databases and analysing routine data/information as required
• Record the results of experiments in a presentable and user-friendly format and to assist staff and students in the preparation of technical data/materials for future reference such as publication or teaching purposes
• Plan and manage small projects ensuring the effective use of resources
• Participate actively within the work team, setting an example and showing a flexible approach to delivering team results

General Duties

• Ensure that an understanding of the importance of confidentiality is applied when undertaking all duties
• Abide by University policies on Health and Safety and Equality and Diversity
• Perform other duties occasionally which are not included above, but which will be consistent with the role

26,093

Grade 3

25,249

Medical & Dental, Technical

How we will support you in performing in this role -

There are some things that you must have before you can start this role (see ‘Essential Criteria’), but other things can be developed either through training, or just by general on-the-job experience.  We want to support and develop you once you have started in the role using a combination of the following to get the best out of you:

1.    Regular one-to-ones with your manager
2.    An experienced and supportive team around you
3.    Supporting you through job-relevant training and development that you may require

IMPORTANT: Evidencing Criteria
It is the School of Medicine's policy to use the person specification as a key tool for short-listing. Candidates should evidence that they meet ALL of the essential criteria as well as, where relevant, the desirable. As part of the application process you will be asked to provide this evidence via a supporting statement.

Please ensure when submitting this document / attaching it to your application profile you name it with the vacancy reference number, in this instance for this post, 20458BR

If candidates do not provide written evidence of meeting all of the essential criteria then their application will not be progressed. The School of Medicine welcome the submission of CVs to accompany evidence of the job-based criteria

Technical