About this role
Job Title: Research Technician Reference: 332 Department: Chemistry Contract Type: Fixed-term contract Fixed Term End Date: 30 June 2027 Hours: Full-time, 36.5 hours per week (1.0 FTE) Closing Date: Thursday 8 October 2026, 11:59pm Full time Salary Range: £31,236.00 - £34,610.00 per annum About the Role This is an excellent opportunity for someone looking to take part in a proof of concept development for novel materials. Your polymer synthesis and processing skills will be essential to produce and study a library of polymer materials. You will also broaden and further develop your skills in an academic setting, while gaining insight into a growing and strategically important department at the University of Warwick. For details on the experience and skills required, please refer to the job description (link here). About You Our required candidate is a practical, proactive experimentalist with a strong foundation in polymer chemistry, polymer characterisation, and polymer processing. You should have hands-on experience in polymer synthesis and processing related laboratory equipment and be comfortable in quickly picking up new techniques. You have practical familiarity with evaluating polymer properties, particularly rheological behaviour, mechanical properties, and thermal characteristics. Experience in formulation design (such as incorporating particulate fillers or additives) or assessing surface and interfacial adhesion (e.g., contact angle analysis) is highly valued. You are highly organised, adhere strictly to laboratory health and safety protocols (COSHH), and take pride in maintaining meticulous experimental records and reproducible data. Crucially, you thrive in a collaborative, cross-disciplinary environment, communicating effectively with academic and technical colleagues across departments to drive technical milestones to completion. You are confident making connections with relevant people in order to arrange access to equipment, or to arrange procurement of consumables/ new equipment with global providers. About the Department The Department of Chemistry at Warwick is a thriving and inclusive community of students, academics, researchers, and professional services staff. Our fundamental research pushes boundaries across all major fields of chemistry, while our applied work - delivered through close partnership with the wider scientific community and industry - addresses major global challenges, breakthroughs in health, solar energy harvesting, and sustainable materials. We are proudly outward-facing, and our community is recognised as one of the strongest in the UK. Our extensive national and international relationships create an outstanding environment for collaboration, innovation, and career development. From polymers and catalysts to computation, advanced instrumentation and cutting-edge materials, our research sits at the forefront of the discipline. We are highly interdisciplinary, having long-standing partnerships with the School of Life Sciences, Warwick Medical School, Physics, Manufacturing, Computer Science, Engineering, and Mathematics. We are committed to fostering a supportive and inclusive working and learning environment in which diverse backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives are recognised, respected, and valued. Our Athena Swan Silver Award reflects our ongoing efforts to embed equality, diversity, and inclusion into our culture, practices, teaching, and research, and our commitment to supporting the career progression of all staff. Explore our webpages to learn more about the Department of Chemistry’s research and teaching, industry-leading facilities, and the impact of our work. How to Apply To apply please complete your essential personal details and attach a CV and cover letter by the closing date stated. We will review applications throughout the advertising period and may contact shortlisted candidates before the closing date. We therefore encourage interested applicants to submit their application as early as possible. We reserve the right to close this vacancy early should we receive a sufficient number of suitable applications. Please ensure your CV includes your most recent employment experience along with any additional relevant experience and education history. Your cover letter should detail your motivation for applying for the role as well as detailing how you meet the essential and desirable criteria. The interviews will be held on a date to be confirmed. We will provide you with a great range of benefits, which include an attractive pension scheme, a generous holiday allowance plus Christmas closure, excellent learning and development opportunities, and savings on a wide range of products and services. We offer a generous maternity/paternity/adoption/parental leave policy, and onsite childcare facilities. We recognise the importance of a healthy work/life balance and offer you access to flexible working, for more information click here . We are proud to say that we are a Living Wage employer . If you are considering relocating to the UK, read our Relocation Guide to find out more about what Warwick has to offer and what might be involved in the process. Warwick is committed to building an organisation of mutual respect and dignity, promoting a welcoming, diverse, and inclusive working and learning environment. We recognise that everyone is different in a variety of visible and non-visible ways, and that those differences are to be recognised, respected, and valued. Where possible, we go beyond legislation to provide a place where everyone can thrive, supporting all staff to achieve their full potential. We aspire to remove economic, social, and cultural barriers that may otherwise prevent people from succeeding. We therefore welcome and encourage applications from all communities regardless of culture, background, age, disability, sex/gender, gender identity or expression, ethnicity, religion/belief, or sexual or romantic orientation. To find out more about our social inclusion work at Warwick visit our webpages here . The University currently holds a Race Equality Charter Bronze Award, Athena Swan Sliver Award and a Disability Smart Bronze Award. Further information on all of the University's Awards and Accreditations can be found here . 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