Environmental Lab Assistant

Role: Environmental Lab Assistant
Pay: £13.99 per hour
Location: Within Swansea University SA2
Hours of work: 37 hours a week

Pertemps are currently partnering with a public sector client based across Wales to recruit a team member to join their Operational support team within the Analytical services until end of July 2025.

The successful applicant will play a crucial role in supporting the laboratory and the organisation through key functions for sampling and analysis. Samples are collected by the client primarily for the Water Framework Directive, Habitats Directive, and Environmental Quality Standards Directive.

Responsibilities:

• Conduct daily early morning sample registration onto the Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS).
• Import sample point data and enter results onto LIMS.
• Organise and dispatch samples for outsourcing analysis.
• Prepare sample containers for re-use, ensuring they are clean and decontaminated. This involves operating high-temperature laboratory muffler ovens and shrink-wrapping machinery.
• Manage sample bottle orders from the operational monitoring team and ensure timely dispatch to samplers, including applying harmful and corrosive preservatives to containers.
• Provide administrative and customer service support for the analytical activities of the laboratory, including procurement ordering, handling email queries, and obtaining prompt responses for customers.
• Maintain due diligence of correct processes to uphold legal chain of custody for formal enforcement samples.
• Maintain excellent awareness of both laboratory-specific and general Health & Safety requirements by adhering to health and safety policies.

Qualifications, Experience, and Knowledge:

• Ability to work in a high-throughput routine environment with tight deadlines and physically demanding repetitive lifting and carrying duties.
• Excellent customer service and awareness skills.
• High level of computer literacy, including proficiency with Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Outlook, OneDrive for Business).
• Understanding of document management systems, cloud-based storage, and data entry into bespoke systems such as LIMS.

Example of a the working pattern.

• Monday: 8am - 4pm
• Tuesday: 7am - 3:30pm
• Wednesday: 7am - 3:30pm
• Thursday: 7am - 3:30pm
• Friday: 7am - 1:45pm

Due to the wider business sampling Monday to Thursday, this role requires the team member to start work at 7am daily Tuesday to Friday, with a flexible start time on Monday.

Benefits of working with Pertemps

• Weekly Pay or Monthly Pay you decide.
• 28 days holiday (PAYE) could increase depending on assignment.
• Access to pension
• Access to share scheme after a qualifying period
• And many more!