Title: Lab Supervisor: Chemical & Process Engineering

Who we are

Great minds. Innovative solutions.

Be part of a vibrant community that celebrates over 200 years of academic excellence, world-class research, and impactful innovation. Located in the dynamic Bahrain Bay, the University of Strathclyde, Bahrain, offers the same high standards of academic excellence and pioneering research that our Glasgow, UK campus is renowned for.

We currently provide eight undergraduate programmes in Engineering, Science, and Business, with future phases set to expand our offerings in research and innovation. As a leading international technological university, our mission, inspired by our founding principle as ‘a place of useful learning,’ is to make a positive difference in the lives of our students, society, and the world.

Main Activities/Responsibilities:

1. Supervise teaching laboratory staff, including planning weekly work activities and co-ordinating effort within the team to ensure efficient completion of tasks.

2. Provide undergraduate teaching lab facilities, furnished with first-rate teaching lab equipment, to ensure that students receive a high-quality experience while learning and working in a lab.

3. Manage a programme of maintenance, calibration, repair, and fault finding of teaching lab equipment.

4. Advise the Head of Department on the purchase of new capital equipment for use within the undergraduate teaching laboratories and provide guidance on Continuous Professional Development (CPD) training requirements for technical staff.

5. Liaise with senior academic staff across the Department to discuss, plan and arrange the requirements for the teaching lab facilities.

6. Demonstrating teaching lab experiments and marking lab reports for the Chemical Engineering undergraduate program.

7. Maintain and provide budgetary expenditure records for Undergraduate Laboratories.

8. Provide strategic direction to teaching lab facilities ensuring that experiments are current, educational and stimulating to provide a useful teaching experience. 

9. Support development of laboratory staff through annual review and CPD activities. 

10. Ensure that all Health and Safety matters (risk assessments, COSHH regulations, SOPs and portable appliance testing) are complied with and relevant documentation completed (as the competent individual) and record results.

11. Overall responsibility for the security of the laboratories. 

12. Writing Health & Safety quizzes to support and encourage safe working in the laboratories.

The University of Strathclyde, Bahrain is a socially progressive institution that strives to ensure equality of opportunity and celebrates the diversity of its student and staff community. Strathclyde is people-oriented and collaborative, offering supportive and flexible working culture with a deep commitment to our equality and diversity.

We strongly encourage applications from candidates of all backgrounds, including women, minorities, individuals with disabilities.

Qualification Required

- Higher National Diploma (HND) or equivalent in Chemical Engineering or related discipline.

- Additional qualifications and training in lab-based skills e.g., Health & Safety, Laboratory Skills.

You’ll be rewarded with:

- Financial Rewards: We provide attractive financial packages, including competitive salaries and relocation support for employees.

- Work-Life Balance: We are dedicated to enhancing healthy work-life balance for our employees.

- Family Friendly Benefits: We offer a variety of enhanced family-friendly benefits to support our employees in balancing work and family responsibilities.

- Career Development: Our commitment to personal development is reflected in initiatives such as professional courses, subsidised educational programs, coaching and mentoring, leadership development, and access to our library.

- Health & Wellbeing: We place high importance on the safety, wellbeing, and health of all our staff.

Application Procedure

Please visit Strathclyde’s vacancies portal and complete an application form. You should also submit a Curriculum Vitae (CV) and a covering letter detailing the knowledge, skills and experience you think make you the right candidate for the job.

Join us and be part of a legacy of excellence and innovation.

Skills

- Higher National Diploma (HND) or equivalent in Chemical Engineering or related discipline.

- Additional qualifications and training in lab-based skills e.g., Health & Safety, Laboratory Skills.