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Your team

The Support Labs team is part of the Beamline Office group and oversees MAX IV’s user support laboratories—including the Biology lab, Chemical labs, Sample Environment labs, Detector Support lab, and specialized workshops. These facilities provide visiting scientists and staff with access to specialized equipment and expert support for sample preparation, characterization, and manipulation.

Would you like to work at one of the brightest lightsources in the world?

MAX IV is looking for a highly motivated and service-oriented lab technician to join our Support Labs team.

Your main work tasks will be

• Schedule and conduct lab access training for users of the Biology and Chemical Support Labs, ensuring a safe and smooth user experience.
• Provide instrument-specific training to users, overseeing instrument usage and adherence to standard operating procedures, and offering ongoing user support.
• Perform routine laboratory functions to support scientific experiments and investigations, including maintaining a clean, organized, and safe working environment.
• Monitor and maintain inventory of nessessary necessary lab supplies, ensuring stock levels are adequate for user needs.
• Set up, test, adjust, calibrate, and maintain laboratory equipment and apparatus, such as balances, pipettes, pH meters, and centrifuges.
• Record, analyze, and prepare reports, protocols, and summaries related to experiments.
• Operate and maintain specialized equipment, including glove boxes, UV-Vis spectrophotometers, etcand related equipment.
• Maintain high standards of quality for labware and supplies.
• Enforce strict health and safety regulations.

To be successful in this role you need to have the following qualifications

• Proven experience in a lab technician role.
• Proficiency in calibrating and maintaining technical laboratory equipment.
• Ability to learn and apply specific scientific techniques.
• Capability to operate technical equipment with high accuracy and efficiency.
• Outstanding attention to detail.
• Strong time management skills.
• Excellent command of English, both written and spoken.
• Ability to work independently as well as collaboratively in small teams.

Below are seen as merits

• A University/Master degree in a relevant field such as biology, chemistry, chemical engineering, or equivalent.
• Experience writing instruction manuals or standard operating procedures.
• Experience using a laboratory management system.
• Experience working in a Biosafety Level 2 (BSL-2) laboratory.

As a person you are  

A Collaborative team player with strong communication skills that is service-minded and committed to supporting users in achieving their scientific goals. You are organized and goal-oriented as well as capable of managing multiple tasks simultaneously while maintaining high-quality work.  

What we offer

When you join our MAX IV team, you step into a world of front edge science. We make the invisible visible by supporting scientist from all over the world, generating scientific results for the benefit of society. We offer you a multicultural work environment with great opportunities for personal development with respect for a healthy work-life balance.

Would you like to work in a challenging and supporting environment? Then join us and take the opportunity to make a real difference!

For further information, please visit:

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/about-lund-university/work-lund-university

www.sweden.se

https://www.maxiv.lu.se/about-us/careers/compensation-benefits/

Probationary period may apply.