UK Research and Innovation
Flooring User Co-ordinator LMS 2484
Job Location
London, United Kingdom
Job Description
View Vacancy -- Flooring User Co-ordinator LMS 2484
Open Date
16/09/2024, 10:00
Close Date
30/09/2024, 23:55
Research Institute
MRC Laboratory of Medical Sciences
As this job does not fulfil the UK Government minimum salary criterion for obtaining sponsored migrant worker status we will be unable to apply for sponsorship for anyone not eligible to work in the UK. At interview, all shortlisted candidates are required to bring with them identification documents and original documents that prove they hold or can obtain the right to work in the UK. You can check your eligibility here: https://www.gov.uk/check-uk-visa/y
Research Institute / Unit Information
The LMS is a world-class research laboratory where scientists and clinicians collaborate to advance the understanding of biology and its application to medicine. Funded by the MRC as part of UK Research and Innovation , the LMS has a collaborative working culture and new state-of-the-art building based in the heart of West London in the Hammersmith Hospital Campus (W12).
The LMS aims to deliver transdisciplinary team science, in synergistic interaction with Imperial College and the wider national research environment.
UK Research and Innovation is a new entity that brings together nine partners to create an independent organisation with a strong voice for research and innovation, more information can be found at www.ukri.org
Band
MRC - 4
Location
London
Salary
£44,760 - £49,347 inclusive of allowances
Contract Type
Fixed Term
Job Type
Technical & Scientific Professionals
Full Time / Part Time
Full Time
Contract Length
6 months
Job Description
Overall Purpose:
The LMS transferred a large part of the institute's activity to a new building in 2022. A construction defect has meant that the flooring within the laboratories and office areas of the new building will need to be replaced. These works have the potential to cause major disruption to scientific activity. The postholder will be responsible for co-ordinating and enabling a programme of work to be undertaken by LMS research groups and facilities in preparation for the works to minimise impact. The postholder will provide the key interface between the repair contractors / planners and the LMS users, interpreting and developing guidance, responding to queries and ensuring that problems are resolved in a timely way. The postholder will also be a key point of contact for the contractor teams and will report on the flooring replacement programme to the senior leadership team at LMS.
Main Duties / Key Responsibilities:
Develop an excellent understanding and contribute to the development of the flooring replacement programme.
Form a strong working relationship with the external team of planners and contractors.
Become the main point of contact for the flooring repair programme within LMS, providing advice and guidance, co-ordinating activities and motivating users to play their part in the overall programme of activity.
Liaise with users to respond to queries or requests for information from the contractor team (and vice versa)
Co-ordinate and provide support for all internal activities that need to be undertaken in the weeks prior to commencement of the flooring programme. Ensure that data from all institute groupings is returned to the planners in a timely manner. Areas of activity include:
Provide organisational and practical support to progress the transition plan. This will include:
Work with the planners and users to implement the programmes for the physical move of equipment
Engage with other repair planning workstreams, particularly Health and Safety, Laboratory Services and Estates to ensure alignment
Become a key point of contact for the planners for queries requiring input from LMS building users. Engage proactively with users as necessary to provide responses and relay these to the project team.
Following the physical repair, continue to liaise with building users and work with the Head of Research Environment and Head of Laboratory Services to ensure that all equipment is replaced correctly and is functional
Person Specification
Education / Qualifications / Training required (will be assessed from application form):
Essential:
Previous work experience required (will be assessed from application form and at interview) :
Essential:
Desirable
Personal skills / Behaviours / Qualities (will be assessed from application form and at interview):
Essential:
Desirable:
Further Information
Pleaseupload your CV, names and contacts of two references along with a covering letter stating why you are applying for this role (providing evidence against the requirements of the job as per the job description and person specification). Please quote reference number LMS 2484.
The MRC is a unique working environment where scientific researchers and professional support staff can actively partake in world class innovation and collaboration opportunities and their skills and knowledge through accessing a wide catalogue of training & development, including professional registration with the Science Council.
In addition, MRC (part of UKRI) provides its community of employees access to a whole host of useful benefits, including a defined benefit pension scheme and excellent holiday entitlement (30 days plus 2.5 privilege days & 8 bank holidays), family friendly policies (6 months full pay maternity & adoption leave), a range of shopping/travel discounts, access to our Employee Assistant Programme Scheme, Health and Wellbeing Support and a salary sacrifice cycle to work scheme. Please follow this link to find out more - Benefits
Our success is dependent upon our ability to embrace diversity and draw on the skills, understanding and experience of all our people. We warmly invite people from diverse backgrounds and heritage, including people who identify as having a disability, to apply for a role that excites them. As "Disability Confident" employers, we guarantee to interview all applicants who have disclosed they have a disability and who meet the minimum criteria for the vacancy.
UKRI supports research in areas that include animal health, agriculture and food security, and bioscience for health which includes research on animals, genetic modification and stem cell research. Whilst you may not have direct involvement in this type of research, you should consider whether this conflicts with your personal values or beliefs.
We will conduct a full and comprehensive pre-employment check as an essential part of the recruitment process on all individuals that are offered a position with UKRI. This will include a security check and an extreme organisations affiliation check. The role holder will be required to have the appropriate level of security screening/vetting required for the role. UKRI reserves the right to run or re-run security clearance as required during the course of employment.
Location: London, GB
Posted Date: 9/19/2024
Open Date
16/09/2024, 10:00
Close Date
30/09/2024, 23:55
Research Institute
MRC Laboratory of Medical Sciences
As this job does not fulfil the UK Government minimum salary criterion for obtaining sponsored migrant worker status we will be unable to apply for sponsorship for anyone not eligible to work in the UK. At interview, all shortlisted candidates are required to bring with them identification documents and original documents that prove they hold or can obtain the right to work in the UK. You can check your eligibility here: https://www.gov.uk/check-uk-visa/y
Research Institute / Unit Information
The LMS is a world-class research laboratory where scientists and clinicians collaborate to advance the understanding of biology and its application to medicine. Funded by the MRC as part of UK Research and Innovation , the LMS has a collaborative working culture and new state-of-the-art building based in the heart of West London in the Hammersmith Hospital Campus (W12).
The LMS aims to deliver transdisciplinary team science, in synergistic interaction with Imperial College and the wider national research environment.
UK Research and Innovation is a new entity that brings together nine partners to create an independent organisation with a strong voice for research and innovation, more information can be found at www.ukri.org
Band
MRC - 4
Location
London
Salary
£44,760 - £49,347 inclusive of allowances
Contract Type
Fixed Term
Job Type
Technical & Scientific Professionals
Full Time / Part Time
Full Time
Contract Length
6 months
Job Description
Overall Purpose:
The LMS transferred a large part of the institute's activity to a new building in 2022. A construction defect has meant that the flooring within the laboratories and office areas of the new building will need to be replaced. These works have the potential to cause major disruption to scientific activity. The postholder will be responsible for co-ordinating and enabling a programme of work to be undertaken by LMS research groups and facilities in preparation for the works to minimise impact. The postholder will provide the key interface between the repair contractors / planners and the LMS users, interpreting and developing guidance, responding to queries and ensuring that problems are resolved in a timely way. The postholder will also be a key point of contact for the contractor teams and will report on the flooring replacement programme to the senior leadership team at LMS.
Main Duties / Key Responsibilities:
Develop an excellent understanding and contribute to the development of the flooring replacement programme.
Form a strong working relationship with the external team of planners and contractors.
Become the main point of contact for the flooring repair programme within LMS, providing advice and guidance, co-ordinating activities and motivating users to play their part in the overall programme of activity.
Liaise with users to respond to queries or requests for information from the contractor team (and vice versa)
Co-ordinate and provide support for all internal activities that need to be undertaken in the weeks prior to commencement of the flooring programme. Ensure that data from all institute groupings is returned to the planners in a timely manner. Areas of activity include:
- Equipment planning (removal and replacement of equipment, co-ordination of alternative equipment access across and between floors)
- Engagement with specialist vendors for physical move of sensitive equipment
- Office audits
- Laboratory cleaning and decontamination programme
- Space planning across and between floors for displaced staff and stored equipment
Provide organisational and practical support to progress the transition plan. This will include:
- Organising user group meetings, ensuring constructive debate and negotiating compromises to reach practical solutions
- Co-ordinating activities across floors and ensuring that best practice among groups of users are disseminated
- Ensuring engagement from LMS staff
- Keeping the senior leadership team alerted to problems and issues
Work with the planners and users to implement the programmes for the physical move of equipment
Engage with other repair planning workstreams, particularly Health and Safety, Laboratory Services and Estates to ensure alignment
Become a key point of contact for the planners for queries requiring input from LMS building users. Engage proactively with users as necessary to provide responses and relay these to the project team.
Following the physical repair, continue to liaise with building users and work with the Head of Research Environment and Head of Laboratory Services to ensure that all equipment is replaced correctly and is functional
Person Specification
Education / Qualifications / Training required (will be assessed from application form):
Essential:
- BSc or equivalent in a scientific subject
Previous work experience required (will be assessed from application form and at interview) :
Essential:
- Experience of working in a Biological Sciences research environment
- Experience of projects with multiple workstreams and stakeholders
- Project management experience
- Understanding of the UK academic research environment
- Experience of a relocation programme or a major operational transition /change programme
Desirable
- Proven track record in managing projects with multiple workstreams and stakeholders
- Experience of negotiating solutions that may involve compromise
Personal skills / Behaviours / Qualities (will be assessed from application form and at interview):
Essential:
- The ability to operate autonomously and planning of own workload
- Good communication and interpersonal skills, able to engage with people at all levels inside and outside the LMS
- Strong negotiation & influencing skills
- Good organisational and problem-solving skills
- Excellent time management with the ability to prioritise work streams as they become apparent
Desirable:
- Proven ability to co-ordinate groups of people to carry out different tasks
- Knowledge and understanding of the scientific research environment and current pressures on scientific research organisations
Further Information
Pleaseupload your CV, names and contacts of two references along with a covering letter stating why you are applying for this role (providing evidence against the requirements of the job as per the job description and person specification). Please quote reference number LMS 2484.
The MRC is a unique working environment where scientific researchers and professional support staff can actively partake in world class innovation and collaboration opportunities and their skills and knowledge through accessing a wide catalogue of training & development, including professional registration with the Science Council.
In addition, MRC (part of UKRI) provides its community of employees access to a whole host of useful benefits, including a defined benefit pension scheme and excellent holiday entitlement (30 days plus 2.5 privilege days & 8 bank holidays), family friendly policies (6 months full pay maternity & adoption leave), a range of shopping/travel discounts, access to our Employee Assistant Programme Scheme, Health and Wellbeing Support and a salary sacrifice cycle to work scheme. Please follow this link to find out more - Benefits
Our success is dependent upon our ability to embrace diversity and draw on the skills, understanding and experience of all our people. We warmly invite people from diverse backgrounds and heritage, including people who identify as having a disability, to apply for a role that excites them. As "Disability Confident" employers, we guarantee to interview all applicants who have disclosed they have a disability and who meet the minimum criteria for the vacancy.
UKRI supports research in areas that include animal health, agriculture and food security, and bioscience for health which includes research on animals, genetic modification and stem cell research. Whilst you may not have direct involvement in this type of research, you should consider whether this conflicts with your personal values or beliefs.
We will conduct a full and comprehensive pre-employment check as an essential part of the recruitment process on all individuals that are offered a position with UKRI. This will include a security check and an extreme organisations affiliation check. The role holder will be required to have the appropriate level of security screening/vetting required for the role. UKRI reserves the right to run or re-run security clearance as required during the course of employment.
Location: London, GB
Posted Date: 9/19/2024
Contact Information
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