Senior Analyst
- Posted 25 February 2024
- Salary £75 T&S per day
- LocationThurso
- Job type Contract
- DisciplineEngineering Skilled Trades Recruitment
- ReferenceCR/070708_1708944831
- Contact NameStewart Bryson
Job description
Contract Length: 12-months
Location: Thurso
IR35: Inside
Qualify for Guaranteed Interview Scheme (GIS): Yes
Job Description
CSS provide analytical support to site delivering a wide range of statutory analysis and analysis to support waste characterisation and decommissioning. Vacancies have arisen within CSS for senior analysts, trainees at analyst level will be considered. The job holder will carry out day to day analytical operations within the laboratories.
The Job Holder will:
Undertake and deliver sample preparation, routine analysis and reporting to the lab or team leader, including testing and internal calibrations, ensuring that CSS reporting deadlines are met
Maintain a daily log and report progress and/or problems to Laboratory Leader/Shift Chemist
Assist the Laboratory Leader/Shift Chemist in ensuring operational delays are minimised by identifying constraints leading unplanned downtime
Report possible non-compliances to the Laboratory Leader/Shift Chemist a propose and deliver corrective actions to close out non-compliances
Undertake safety checks, repost and take appropriate action
Maintain Analytic Proficiencies in one laboratory area
Maintain Analytic Proficiencies in additional laboratory areas, where CSS workload and flexibility requires this
Prepare technical documents for review
Additional Role Information
Be required to undertake shift work on a rota basis
Perform method development, validation and uncertainty estimation
Perform the responsibilities of Management Appointments relevant to post
Perform additional Management Activities as required
Undertake audits on UKAS aspects of the Quality Management System
Qualifications & Experience
HNC in Science or equivalent qualifications plus experience
Demonstrable experience in lab areas
Good interpersonal and communication skills
Good general safety awareness
Ability to work effectively as part of a team
Ability to work under pressure and to time deadlines whilst maintaining quality of output
STEM qualifications at least to higher A-level grade or equivalent
Interested in lab work (manual dexterity attention to detail)
Lab experience is a bonus
Our role in supporting diversity and inclusion
As an international workforce business, we are committed to sourcing personnel that reflects the diversity and values of our client base but also that of Orion Group. We welcome the wide range of experiences and viewpoints that potential workers bring to our business and our clients, including those based on nationality, gender, culture, educational and professional backgrounds, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, disability, and age differences, job classification and religion. In our inclusive workplace, regardless of your employment status as staff or contract, everyone is assured the right of equitable, fair and respectful treatment.
