Technical Services Manager

About the Role

This is a unique opportunity to join Warwick Biomedical Sciences as its Technical Services Manager, leading the Biomedical Sciences Technical Support function that works across 2 sites - one at Gibbet Hill Campus and the other at the Clinical Sciences Research Laboratories at UHCW. For details on the experience and skills required, please refer to the job description. Informal enquiries are welcome.

Please contact recruiting manager, Catherine Newman, Head of Operations via Catherine.Newman@warwick.ac.uk.

For details on the experience and skills required, please refer to the job description (link here).

About You

You will be an experienced technical services leader with a strong track record of managing laboratory-based teams, specialist facilities and scientific infrastructure within a complex research or higher education environment.

You will combine sound knowledge of laboratory health and safety, statutory compliance and governance with the ability to plan strategically, manage budgets and competing priorities, and deliver practical improvements to services, systems and equipment.

A collaborative and credible communicator, you will be confident working with staff, students, senior leaders, professional services and external partners, while developing people, supporting change and fostering a positive, inclusive and safety-focused culture.

About the Department

Warwick Medical School has an excellent reputation for our distinctive portfolio of high-quality education programmes and for the excellence and global impact of our research.

The breadth of our interest and expertise is demonstrated through our dynamic and influential directorates: Warwick Applied Health (WAH), Warwick Clinical Trials Unit (WCTU), and Warwick Biomedical Sciences (BMS).  Our Institute of Translational Medicine (ITM) works across the directorates, University and with external stakeholders to accelerate the delivery of practical human health benefits arising from research.

Warwick Biomedical Science’s mission is to advance world-class discovery science with an interdisciplinary approach to unravel the fundamental mechanisms of physiological and pathological processes; develop pioneering diagnostic and preventative technologies; and deliver ground-breaking treatments for a healthier future for all.

Our research is grouped into the following disciplines:

• Cell and Mechano-Biology Discovery research with a focus on cytoskeletal self-organisation, membrane dynamics and tissue mechanobiology. Investigators in this theme form the core of the University-wide Centre for Mechanochemical Cell Biology.
• Host-Pathogen Interactions Discovery research and innovation focussing on pathogenicity factors and host machinery involved in infection and new approaches in diagnosis, prevention and immunity.
• Reproductive Biomedicine Discovery, translational and clinical research into gametogenesis, implantation, miscarriage, endometriosis, labour and birth with investigators forming the core of the Centre for Early Life and cross-cutting WMS programme in Women’s Health

For further information on the department, please see here.

How to Apply

To apply please complete your essential personal details and attach a CV and cover letter on the closing date stated.

Please ensure your CV includes your most recent employment experience along with any additional relevant experience and education history.

Your cover letter should detail your motivation for applying for the role as well as detailing how you meet the essential and desirable criteria.   

The interviews will be held on: To Be Confimed.

We will review applications throughout the advertising period and may contact shortlisted candidates before the closing date. We therefore encourage interested applicants to submit their application as early as possible. We reserve the right to close this vacancy early should we receive a sufficient number of suitable applications.