Vacancy Apprentice Technician – Chemical and Environmental Engineering
Vacancy overview
Code: 1000303808
Based primarily within the Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, you will have a great chance to develop and grow your career as a Chemical Laboratory Assistant. We will support and help you to develop the skills, experience and knowledge you will need to succeed, whilst undertaking a full time 4-year Apprenticeship.
You will receive practical training in the faculty’s extensively equipped laboratories on a range of standard and specialised pilot-scale chemical laboratory equipment/instrumentation, techniques and processes from our experienced and qualified science/engineering technical specialists.
There will be opportunities for you to learn and train on a wide range of cutting-edge chemical laboratory technologies including:
- Chemical analysis techniques
- Variety of methods: sampling and sample resizing, rotary evaporation, soxhlet extraction, leaching/digestion, distillation, 3D printing etc
- Experimental design, method development, testing and implementation
- Materials testing and characterisation.
Requirements and prospects
Our University has always been a supportive, inclusive, caring and positive community. Recruitment/ appointment will be based purely upon merit
Desired skills and personal qualities:
- Communication skills
- IT skills
- Attention to detail
- Organisation skills
- Problem solving skills
- Number skills
- Analytical skills
- Logical
- Team working
- Initiative
About the employer
UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM (THE)
We are delighted to share that we are the first university to have achieved Athena Swan Gold Award. We offer a range of benefits for staff.