R&D Industrial Placement Student

About the Company

Joining our team, you’ll play an active part in helping to deliver meaningful impact. At Oxoid Remel Microbiology, acquired from Thermo Fisher Scientific, we play a crucial role in accurate identification and targeted treatment for diseases, ensuring food and beverage safety, and supporting pharmaceutical manufacturing integrity. Our products and services are designed to meet the highest standards of quality and performance, helping our customers achieve their objectives efficiently and effectively.

About the Role

As an Industrial Placement Student, you'll support Research and Development by contributing to new product introduction projects and enabling the lab environment to operate smoothly. You'll play an important role in advancing our mission by developing microbiology products and workflows for the clinical and/or food industries, while collaborating with talented colleagues to deliver meaningful results for our customers, partners, and communities.

What You'll Do

• Conduct practical experiments that will advise product development and improvement decisions
• Work with internal collaborators to plan project tasks and produce regular progress reports
• Feed into the decision process for selection of methods in a project
• Develop subject knowledge, interpret, and record data, and draw valid conclusions
• Address problems, fix routine methods and interpret unexpected results
• Maintain stocks of media and consumables related to projects
• Ensure the microbiology laboratory operates efficiently, including calibration of equipment and ordering of materials
• Coordinate your own work and adapt to changing business priorities
• Assist in the development and maintenance of R&D processes

What We're Looking For

• A second-year student of a 4-year undergraduate biological sciences course with a placement year
• Someone passionate about science with good basic microbiology skills
• A great teammate, able to work collaboratively
• Someone with excellent written and verbal communication skills
• A teammate who is adept at coordinating their time and prioritizing tasks

Why Join Us

• Competitive salary
• Performance-related bonus (where eligible)
• Annual merit-based pay increases
• Medical benefits
• Paid annual leave
• Employee referral bonus
• Career development and advancement opportunities

More about us…

This is an exciting time to join us as we continue to build on more than 100 years of microbiology excellence. With a broad portfolio of instruments, services, and global resources, we’re steadfast in our commitment to helping you succeed. Together, we can cultivate a thriving microbiology culture that supports you today, tomorrow, and for life.