Career Opportunities at Queen's

This part-time Laboratory Manager role (0.2 FTE) is a hands-on position combining technical leadership of the School’s Photocatalyst Test Centre with direct responsibility for second-year undergraduate Physical Chemistry teaching laboratories. The postholder will manage customer testing from enquiry to final report, maintain and calibrate advanced analytical equipment (including NOx analysers, GC systems and UV/Vis), train research students and demonstrators, and ensure full compliance with health and safety. The role also carries core teaching support duties, including updating laboratory manuals, timetabling support, marking, and student performance monitoring, making it a hybrid technical, research-facing and teaching-critical appointment.

About the person:

We are seeking an experienced physical chemist with a PhD and a strong track record in managing teaching and research laboratories, particularly in photocatalysis. The successful candidate must:

• Have a PhD (or equivalent) in Physical Chemistry
• Have demonstrable experience in testing photocatalytic products, using the appropriate photocatalyst ISOs, for VOC and NOx destruction and water disinfection and preparing and testing photocatalyst indicator inks.
• The ideal candidate will be highly organised, confident working with both academic and industrial customers, and capable of managing accounts and delivering high-quality outputs to deadlines.
• Strong communication skills, a commitment to student support and training, and the ability to work independently while integrating effectively within a technical and academic team are essential.

To be successful at shortlisting stage, please ensure you clearly evidence in your application how you meet the essential and, where applicable, desirable criteria listed in the Candidate Information.

Fixed term contract posts are available for the stated period in the first instance but in particular circumstances may be renewed or made permanent subject to availability of funding.

What we offer:

Beyond a competitive salary, the University offers an attractive benefits package including a holiday entitlement of up to 8.4 weeks a year, pension schemes and development opportunities. We support staff wellbeing with flexible working options, work-life balance initiatives and support for physical and mental health. You can find more detail on all of this and more at https://www.qub.ac.uk/directorates/HumanResources/pay-reward-and-benefits/.

Queen's University is committed to promoting equality of opportunity to all. We subscribe to Equality Charter Marks such as the Diversity Charter Mark NI and Athena Swan and have established staff networks such as iRise (Black, Asian, Minority Ethnic and International Staff Network) and PRISM (LGBTQ+) which help us progress equality. For further information on our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, please visit www.qub.ac.uk/diversity.

If you are an international applicant and don't already hold a visa that permits you to take up the role you are applying for, please use the information provided on our website to self-assess whether the University is likely to be able to support a visa application - http://go.qub.ac.uk/internationalstaffsupport.

Candidate Information