Lab Technician (Construction Materials, Soils, Aggs, Concrete)

Job description
Building a sustainable tomorrow

We are currently looking to recruit Laboratory Technicians at laboratories and projects throughout the UK. Long term opportunities at the following locations below:
• HS2 South Laboratory, Aylesbury, Oxfordshire
• HS2 North Laboratory, Greatworth, Northamptonshire
• Devonport Docks, Plymouth
• Hinkley Point C, Near Bridgwater, Somerset
• Wren Hall Lane, Drax, Near Selby
• Kilsyth Laboratory, Glasgow Scotland
• Inverness Laboratory, Scotland
• Peterhead Laboratory, Scotland

The roles require a suitable candidate with experience in materials related testing ranging from Concrete and Aggregates. There may be a requirement to support the wider materials team within the business from time to time.

Your mission

As a Laboratory Technician, you will be responsible for the following:
• Ensure that site sampling and laboratory testing is carried out to high standards of safety, quality and efficiency
• Ensure that adequate and proper records are kept and filed correctly to satisfy the requirements of the laboratory management system and UKAS requirements
• Ensure that sampling and testing is carried out to the appropriate British/European Standards
• Ensure test equipment is checked, cleaned and maintained to an acceptable level
• Communicating regularly and effectively with internal/external clients/site engineering staff on testing requirements

Who are we looking for?
• In-situ testing in accordance with relevant standards.
• Materials/Aggregate sampling and testing in accordance with all relevant standards
• Concrete sampling/testing in accordance with all relevant standards
• Maintaining high standards of work and compliance with UKAS accreditation requirements
• Previous experience of working within a busy UKAS accredited laboratory
• NVQ Level 2 or equivalent an advantage
• CSCS card

What’s in it for you?
• Competitive salary
• A wide range of family-friendly policies
• Company car/car allowance/travel allowance
• 8 % matched pension contributions
• Private healthcare
• Life assurance
• 26 days holiday
• 2 wellbeing days
• 1 volunteering day
• Personal and professional development

BAM Ritchies is also committed to equality of opportunity in all its employment practices, and to developing policies that support work-life balance.

Who are we?

The art of building is about building for communities; it’s about building for life.

Where others stop, we go further, leading the way towards a sustainable tomorrow for us and future generations. As an industry leader, we raise the bar.

Our values: sustainable, inclusive, collaborative, reliable and ownership, enable us to achieve our ambitions. Today, tomorrow and every day.

Our recruitment process, what you need to know?

For more information about the vacancy and our projects, please contact Monica Curl, Recruitment Assistant, at monica.curl@bam.com

BAM is committed to ensuring a fully inclusive recruitment and onboarding process, so if at anytime you feel you may need any reasonable adjustments, do not hesitate to speak with one of our team, and we will do our best to support you.