Senior Technical Manager

In this role you lead and motivate a technical team within the Division of Biomedical and Life Sciences, overseeing research facilities and ensuring safety and compliance. You will support staff and students to achieve their research aims while maintaining instruments and infrastructure. You’ll build strong relationships with suppliers and engineers to keep facilities up to date. This position offers a collaborative environment that values work-life balance and a strong research culture, with opportunities to shape core research capabilities.

• friendly environment
• flexible working policies
• family-friendly workplace
• Silver Athena SWAN award
• support for equality and wellbeing

• Lead and motivate the technical team across research activities
• Manage deployment of staff across projects and facilities
• Support staff and students to achieve research goals
• Promote good laboratory practice and enforce safety compliance
• Build and maintain relationships with equipment suppliers and engineers
• Keep scientific instruments and facilities up-to-date and well-maintained

• Experience leading technical or support teams in a research environment
• Strong understanding of laboratory safety and compliance
• Ability to manage facilities and equipment maintenance
• Proven ability to liaise with suppliers and engineers
• Capability to support researchers and students in a technologically advanced setting

• leadership
• communication
• collaboration
• confocal microscopy and imaging systems
• flow cytometry
• transmission electron microscopy