Technician - Instruments

**Technician - Instruments**
- Excellent training to boost your technical career
- Fast moving commercial environment
- Start from $23 per hour + paid overtime

**The Opportunity**:
This is a wonderful opportunity to gain a breadth of knowledge around laboratory practice and instrumentation in a commercial environment. You'll be working in a friendly, professional, enthusiastic team who are supportive and willing to share their knowledge with you.
- Perform routine operation, maintenance and troubleshooting of the laboratory instruments
- Set up laboratory runs after sample extraction and
- Pass on quality data up and down the laboratory structure to be processed
- Permanent full-time role, working Monday to Friday or Tuesday to Saturday
- Optional paid overtime as our lab operates 6 days a week.

**About you**:
Your knowledge of Liquid and Gas Chromatography Tandem Mass Spectrometry will be a perfect springboard to success in this role as you ensure a professional slick, quick, quality response to customer needs.
You will require:

- A passion for science and quality
- Previous experience working in a fast paced, communicative environment
- Great attention to detail and both written and verbal communication skills
- Excellent data management and the ability to prioritise processes.
- Previous experience working with laboratory instrumentation is well received in this role.
- Pride in what you do, the quality of your work and a true team ethos

Although not essential a qualification in science and/or previous experience from a role in the broader Science/Laboratory industry will give you an advantage.

**Benefits**:

- Great training to boost your technical career
- Bonus day leave and option to buy additional leave
- Employee volunteer programme
- Discounted healthcare insurance & other staff discounts
- Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)
- Parental Leave return to work support
- Long service recognition
- Study Support

**About us**:
Everyday our experienced team of 1800+ people work alongside farmers, producers, and others throughout the food supply chain to help them uphold what Aotearoa stands for in food - a higher standard of quality and safety.
We are passionate about our shared role as Kaitiaki Kai, guardians of food, and have a deep responsibility to do the right thing for food and the environments it comes from.
We are committed to attracting, developing, and retaining great people, and supporting them to be the best they can be. We know diverse teams are stronger teams and we believe in fairness and opportunity for all.
**Helping Aotearoa shape a better food world - Join us today**

**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent