Stores Assistant

Department: School of Physical and Chemical Sciences
Salary: £24,184 – £25,043 per annum (Grade 2)
Reference: QMUL25631
Location: Mile End
Date posted: 20 September 2022
Closing date: 4 October 2022

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Overview

About the Role

The School is seeking to appoint a Stores Assistant to support the Stores Manager with provision of a comprehensive facility for safe storage, procurement and handling of consumable items and equipment for use in research and teaching.

The School’s Stores Facility is the goods inward reception point and logistical distribution hub for all of the School’s engineering and chemical deliveries. The Stores also handles deliveries and distribution for the users of the schools housed within the Joseph Priestley building, namely the School of Biological and Behavioural Sciences and the School of Engineering and Materials Sciences

About You

Candidates should have front line customer service experience and a willingness to learn. Experience of working in a Stores/ laboratory environment would be desirable.

About the School/Department/Institute/Project

The School forms one of five within the Faculty of Science and Engineering and consists of two distinct research departments delivering world-leading research and high-class teaching: Chemistry and Physics and Astronomy.

About Queen Mary

At Queen Mary University of London, we believe that a diversity of ideas helps us achieve the previously unthinkable.

Throughout our history, we’ve fostered social justice and improved lives through academic excellence. And we continue to live and breathe this spirit today, not because it’s simply ‘the right thing to do’ but for what it helps us achieve and the intellectual brilliance it delivers.

We continue to embrace diversity of thought and opinion in everything we do, in the belief that when views collide, disciplines interact, and perspectives intersect, truly original thought takes form.

Benefits

We offer competitive salaries, access to a generous pension scheme, 30 days’ leave per annum (pro-rata for part-time/fixed-term), a season ticket loan scheme and access to a comprehensive range of personal and professional development opportunities. In addition, we offer a range of work life balance and family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements, and campus facilities including an on-site nursery at the Mile End campus.

The post is based at the Mile End Campus in London. It is full time (35 hours per week), 3years fixed term appointment, with an expected start date of October 2022. The starting salary will be Grade 2, in the range of £24,184 – £25,043 per annum (pro-rata), inclusive of London Allowance.

Queen Mary’s commitment to our diverse and inclusive community is embedded in our appointments processes. Reasonable adjustments will be made at each stage of the recruitment process for any candidate with a disability. We are open to considering applications from candidates wishing to work flexibly.

Informal enquiries should be addressed to Dr Jan Soetaert [email protected] .

To apply for the role, please click the ‘apply’ button below.

The closing date for applications is 4th October 2022.  

Interviews are expected to be held soon thereafter.

We welcome applications from all qualified applicants, but applications are particularly encouraged from traditionally under-represented groups in science. The School holds a Silver Athena SWAN Award and Juno Champion status from the Institute of Physics, which affirms our commitment to promoting an inclusive working environment. We are committed to equality of opportunities and to advancing women’s careers.

Valuing Diversity & Committed to Equality

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