Job Title: Laboratory Technician - (Night Shift)
Location: Four Ashes, Wolverhampton, West Midlands, UK
Contract and Shift: Permanent Mon - Sun 8.45pm - 7.15am. Seven on, seven off night shift.
Package includes: Salary £27,531.07 a year, and access to flexible benefits that support your development, wellbeing and everyday life.
About the role:
The Laboratory Technician will provide the knowledge and skills to assist with the ongoing testing and registration of samples as well as basic maintenance of instruments that are fundamental to the laboratories operation. Carrying out your duties you will be required to work on a seven on/seven off night shift.
From time to time training and cover may be required during the laboratories operational times on the day shift.
Key Responsibilities:
- To register and analyse samples submitted to the laboratory following published Standard Operating Procedures and Quality Standards.
- To ensure that any instrumentation that is used during analyses is operated to established KPI’s.
- To monitor and apply any amendments made to standard working practices.
- To be responsible for completing laboratory records accurately.
- To assist in the maintenance of the supply of consumables and reagents utilised in the laboratory.
- To report any sample registration or sample analyses that do not conform to standard procedures.
- To ensure the quality of customer communications, both verbal and written are of the highest standard.
Knowledge and Skills required:
- To have the ability to understand, follow and convey technical instructions.
- To have excellent accuracy and attention to detail.
- To have good analytical skills.
- To have good organisational and time management skills.
- Be good at working in a team environment.
- The ability to maintain technical equipment.
- Computer Literate and be a competent user of Microsoft Office Products.
Where growth meets purpose
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 shaping a world where responsible nutrition is accessible to all. With a big goal comes equally big opportunities to make a career that truly feels like your own. As a team we’re collaborative, purpose-driven and encourage trying new ideas. We also find ways to nourish your individual journey, so everyone can feel proud of the difference that they make in their own way.
We’re thrilled to share that AB Agri has been recognised as one of The Times Top 50 Employers for Gender Equality 2025. This is a proud moment for us all. It highlights the real progress we’ve made to build a workplace that is inclusive, supportive, and fair for everyone. Over the last 5 years we have rebuilt our talent management practices, from inclusive hiring, to transparent pay frameworks, flexible work, and the momentum of our Employee Network Groups. Our actions are embedding inclusion at the heart of how we operate and creating a culture where people can be themselves
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.
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 productivity.
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.
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.
