Job Title : Laboratory Team Leader Location : Four Ashes, Wolverhampton, West Midlands, UK Contract and Shif t: Permanent Thursday - Saturday 10am - 6pm, Sunday 7.30am - 3.30pm, Monday 7.30am - 3.00pm About the role : The Laboratory Team Leader will provide guidance, instruction, direction and leadership to a team of laboratory technicians. They will have the purpose of managing the processes involved in registering and analysing samples and authorising results in accordance to customers agreed service levels. Carrying out your duties you will be required to work a shift consisting of five days on including weekends with two days off during the week. From time to time training and cover may be required during the laboratories operational times on the night shift. Key Responsibilities: Manage the workflow through the various Laboratory departments during the day to ensure resources are used as efficiently as possible. Line Manage Laboratory Staff. Ensure samples are registered, tested and results entered in accordance with SOP’s and working practices. To train all laboratory staff in new laboratory methods and amendments to existing ones. Assist the Quality Unit in maintain training records for all Laboratory Technicians. Assist the laboratory’s aim for UKAS accreditation according to the timescale set by Laboratory Management. Provide assistance with both internal and external customer testing issues associated with the laboratory. Ensure that available equipment operates to maximum efficiency. Deal appropriately with internal and external customer queries. Knowledge and Skills required: To have experience and a background within the science or related industry. To have strong and demonstrable leadership skills. To be able to motivate a team to achieve an end goal. To have excellent organisational skills. To be a strong communicator so to be able to build relationships with internal and external stakeholders within the laboratory function. To have excellent project management skills. To control and develop employee training experiences. Decoding milk data, building robust insights. When you join us, you'll do meaningful work and be rewarded fairly for it. From annual salary reviews and incentive bonus, ongoing career development and enhanced family, financial and wellbeing benefits – these are just some of the ways we reward you - from day one. About us: We’re National Milk Records (NMR) a part of the AB Agri community committed to investing in an innovative range of milk quality, herd health and genomic testing services, generating data and building robust insights that empower farmers to make informed decisions on cow product ivity.We’re part of AB Agri, the agricultural division of Associated British Foods (ABF plc) and we’re passionate about feeding the world responsibly and affordably by making quality animal feed, creating nutrition and technology-based products, and offering data services for the agri-food industry. What sets us apart is how we delight our customers - and that’s because of great people like you. People with different life experiences who share common values. Together we’re building a fair, innovative and inclusive culture. As a Disability Confident employer, we’re committed to ensuring our application and recruitment processes work for everyone so if you need any additional support (like alternative formats for your application, bringing a support dog to the offices, a sign language interpreter - or anything else) just let us know. Application Notes We hope you feel that AB Agri is somewhere you can thrive and so we’d love to hear from you. We get a lot of applications for our roles and sometimes need to close the process early so register your details and upload your CV via our careers website as soon as you can – it will only take a few minutes. When you do, we’ll ask you some equal opportunities questions just to ensure our recruitment process is inclusive – or show us areas we can improve. This information is anonymised, separate from your application and is never seen by the hiring panel. You can choose not to answer these questions, and this won’t affect your application. Apply today or contact our recruitment team for more information. Agencies and media sales AB Agri group politely requests no contact from recruitment agencies or media sales. We don’t accept speculative CVs from recruitment agencies nor accept the fees associated with them.