Apprentice Technician
King's College London
- Strand, Central London
- £25,410 per year
- Contract
- Full-time
- Assist in providing a service, under regular direct supervision whilst building the required competencies, where there are established standards and requirements of the service, seeking clarification where required to deliver the service
- Learn to use equipment and techniques to provide the required services
- Work to an agreed plan, occasionally being required to complete non-routine tasks
- Help maintain supplies/stocks, local facilities and operations, ensuring efficient use of resources and undertaking receipt of goods, maintaining allocated equipment and wider facilities maintenance as required
- Solve standard, day-to-day problems, reporting non-routine matters to personal mentor, or local supervisor
- Assist in monitoring Health & Safety standards in laboratories and communicate any problems/issues to relevant technical staff
- Assist in Stores - unpacking deliveries and distributing consumables to relevant staff
- Assist with the maintenance and/or servicing of laboratory equipment
- Develop understanding of how to interpret and evaluate routine data
- Build good working relationships with staff and students, actively engaging with the immediate team, co-operating and working with other team members, providing basic guidance to new team members as required
- Communicate, both orally and in writing, in a clear and precise fashion