263 Scientific Research & Development jobs in the United Kingdom

Senior Technical Specialist - Groundwater Quality 

£52,929 pro rata  

National

Full Time/Part Time. Fixed Term until 31^st March 2026

Staff Grade: 6  

Don't miss this opportunity to be part of the UK's biggest environmental organisation. Join us, and together, let's tackle the challenges of a changing climate and build a more sustainable future!

About Us

The Environment Agency regulates activities across urban and rural environments, including waste sites, farms, and land management. We continuously evolve our approach, including tackling organised crime in the waste industry. Our mission is to create a cleaner, safer, and healthier environment by improving performance, using resources effectively, and taking enforcement action where needed.  

Your Role  

You’ll play a leading role in delivering, regulating, and protecting groundwater quality. Supporting Local Operations, you’ll develop hydrogeological and regulatory skills, and ensure technical officers and teams receive expert guidance and support. 

As part of the Geoscience Resilience Programme, you’ll work closely with other Senior Technical Specialists nationally. You’ll lead groundwater quality training, coaching, and mentoring, and act as a focal point for capability development and skills recovery.

The successful candidate will influence and persuade as the operational lead in your discipline, improve consistency in regulation, support complex investigations, and may act as an Expert Witness or mentor those who do.

The Team

The Senior Technical Specialist will join our dispersed Groundwater Team and work with a wide range of technical and project teams across the country. We sit within the Environment and Business (E&B) Directorate, delivering government environmental objectives through evidence, expertise, and innovation. We support integrated delivery and build trust to help secure resources and outcomes.

What You’ll Need

We’re looking for a Senior Specialist with excellent technical leadership, a strong track record in groundwater quality regulation, and the ability to coach, train, and mentor others.  

You’ll also demonstrate:

• Extensive technical and regulatory experience in groundwater quality.
• Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent); ideally a Master’s in geology, hydrogeology, or related discipline.
• Strong communication skills for complex technical topics.
• Technical leadership, interpersonal, and team-working skills.
• Self-motivation and commitment to high-quality outcomes.
• Relationship-building and engagement across teams.
• Ability to motivate others and manage challenges.
• Professional membership and chartership (strongly desirable).

Benefits for you!  

We offer flexible working patterns and an inclusive culture where difference is embraced and everyone feels supported. You’ll benefit from development opportunities and a competitive benefits package including:

• Salary up to £52,929 pro rata.
• Generous pension scheme at 19%.
• Overtime through standby and incident pay.
• 27 days' holiday plus 8

Blue Light Card. Individually great, together unstoppable

The Role and the Team

We’re looking for experienced Product Data Scientist to join our Data team in an exciting growth phase to help shape how we do things as we continue to evolve.

As a Product Data Scientist, you’ll be a key partner and collaborator to teams across Blue Light Card to support them with analytical insight. You'll ensure teams have an in-depth understanding of member and partner behaviour, putting actionable insight front of mind when making decisions and always pushing to use the most up to date techniques you can.

What You’ll Do

• Leverage quantitative analysis and data storytelling to uncover user behaviour, identify pain points, and inform product strategy with actionable insights

• Discover and size new opportunities by generating hypotheses, designing and supporting experiments, and fostering a culture of continuous learning and iteration

• Define and align key metrics in collaboration with stakeholders, ensuring data accuracy and consistency across teams by partnering with engineers and developers

• Build and maintain self-serve data tools and dashboards that provide quick access to core insights, empowering teams to make data-informed conclusions

• Conduct deep-dive analyses to support strategic initiatives, delivering clear recommendations that drive business and product improvements

• Maintain the central knowledge base by documenting reports, insights, and metric definitions within the Insights Hub to promote transparency and shared understanding

• Collaborate cross-functionally to identify and close data or capability gaps, while sharing insights and fostering strong relationships across the business

• Champion a unified data approach, ensuring consistent use of data sources and definitions, while staying current on analytics best practices and industry trends

What You’ll Bring

• Extensive experience working with data in an analytical fashion, preferably in a digitally native tech environment

• Experience using analytical tools/languages, e.g., SQL, dbt, Python, R, as well as BI suites such as Lightdash, Looker, or Tableau

• Ability to translate business problems into analytical tasks, drawing conclusions and communicating insights to a variety of stakeholders across all levels

• Experience using data storytelling, including presentation skills and the ability to present a convincing, data-led argument for ideas to internal stakeholders and colleagues

• Ability to manage your development alongside the senior analytics team, identifying opportunities to improve both yourself and the team in line with market trends

• A willingness to be a self-starter, and a detail-oriented problem solver, with a strong curiosity to understand user behaviour

• Team player that is both highly collaborative and individually capable

Our Culture

Our mission is simple – make heroes happy. Our members are the real-life heroes who keep us all safe, cared for, and thriving. It’s what gets us up in the morning and pushes us to go further, think bigger, and create something that truly matters. By focusing on their happiness, we create amazing experiences, deliver unrivalled discounts, innovative products, and world-class service.

We don’t just follow the usual path - we look for smarter, bolder ways to deliver real impact. We take ownership, move fast, and work shoulder to shoulder to build something special.

We’re committed to building a diverse and inclusive team where everyone feels they belong. Different perspectives and experiences help us grow, innovate, and better reflect the communities we serve.

We promote hybrid working, and value in-person collaboration so encourage time in our offices, where you can make the most of our fully stocked snack drawers – either the HQ in Leicestershire, or London, Holborn office. The frequency and office location will vary depending on the role and team, we aim to be flexible, but we aren’t able to offer fully remote working.

What We Offer

• Hybrid working and flexible hours

• Free parking and EV charging onsite at HQ

• 25 days annual leave plus an additional day off for your birthday, and a buy and sell holiday scheme of up to 5 days

• A company bonus scheme

• Your own Blue Light Card and exclusive access to thousands of discounts

• Generous funded BUPA medical insurance covering pre-existing conditions

• Group auto-enrolment pension plan

• Enhanced parental leave and absence leave

• Healthcare cashback plan

• Employee assistance programme (including mental health support) and mental health first aiders

• Great social events e.g., festive party, summer party, team socials, sports matches

• Regular company-wide recognition events e.g. Monthly Light’s Up and The Shine awards

• Relaxed dress code and modern office space (games area, chill-out areas, book club, free drinks/snacks)

• Onsite gym at HQ (including access to free HIIT & stretch classes)

• Strong learning and development culture

#LI-Hybrid

The Department of Chemical Engineering seeks to appoint a highly skilled, adaptable and self-motivated Senior Teaching & Research Laboratory Technician to provide technical support in its teaching and research laboratories.

You will be responsible for assisting the Technical Supervisor in the organisation, co-ordination and maintenance of a variety of equipment in our teaching and research laboratories. You will assume responsibility for a number of administrative tasks supporting the Technical Supervisor and wider technical team, such as ordering (including keeping records of expenditure on specific grant codes), liaising with Estates and external contractors, setting up and maintaining service contracts for equipment and maintaining up to date inventories of equipment.

These duties are in addition to the general responsibilities of Chemical Engineering technical staff, who provide advice, instruction and services in analytical and instrumentation techniques to staff and students across the Department and the Faculty of Engineering and Design.

Ideally applicants will hold a first degree in a science-based discipline and/or have considerable experience of working in a teaching or research laboratory environment and the use of related equipment and facilities

This full-time post is offered on a full time (36.5 hours per week) permanent basis.

The position requires full time attendance on campus, hybrid and home working is not applicable to this post.

For informal enquiries, please contact either Rebecca Sie, Technical Manager on e-mail or Sarah Hunter, Technical Supervisor, e-mail

We consider ourselves to be a university where difference is celebrated, respected and encouraged. We have an excellent international reputation with staff from over 60 different nations and have made a positive commitment towards gender equality and intersectionality receiving a Silver Athena SWAN award. We truly believe that diversity of experience, perspectives, and backgrounds will lead to a better environment for our employees and students and encourage applications from all genders, backgrounds, and communities, particularly from under-represented groups, and value the positive impact that will have on the university. We are committed to maintaining a safe and secure environment for our students, staff, and community by reinforcing our Safer Recruitment commitment.

We're very proud to be a signatory of the Armed Forces Covenant. an accredited Disability Confident Leader ; autism friendly university , committed to building disability confidence and supporting disabled staff . 

We're continually expanding our benefits package to better support you and enhance your experience with us and the below is just an example of some of the many great benefits we offer:

• Free counselling services through Health Assured
• Cycle to work scheme
• Electric vehicle salary sacrifice scheme
• Staff discount at Team Bath gym
• Staff discounts on postgraduate tuition fees
• Staff discount on language courses
• Generous employer contributory pension schemes
• Generous annual leave allowance with an additional 5 discretionary days so that you can enjoy a positive work life balance
• A wide range of personal and professional development opportunities including Apprenticeships, LinkedIn Learning and more
• Free entry to the Holburne Museum in Bath
• Local discounts and more
• A family-friendly workplace  
• An excellent reward package that recognises the talents of our diverse workforce
• Relocation allowance
• Visa reimbursement and Interest-Free Loan to help with the cost of some immigration expenses

Find out more about our benefits and watch the video to hear from our staff about what makes the University of Bath a great place to work as well as following us X and LinkedIn .

Closing Date: 14 Sep 2025

Department: Technical & Experimental

Salary: £31,236 to £37,694

Immunocore (NASDAQ: IMCR) is a pioneering, commercial-stage T cell receptor biotechnology company whose purpose is to develop and commercialize a new generation of transformative medicines which address unmet patient needs in oncology, infectious diseases and autoimmune disease. Our leaders in R&D are internationally recognised as some of the biotech industry's most successful drug developers. We are creating not just an environment where great minds can interact but an innovation powerhouse answering the big questions.

Focused on delivering first-in-class biological therapies to patients, we have developed a highly innovative soluble TCR platform. Our ImmTAX molecules underpin a new generation of precision engineered drugs that harness the immune system to treat a broad spectrum of diseases with high unmet medical need, including oncology, infectious diseases and autoimmune diseases.

At Immunocore, we recognize that our employees are our greatest asset. We value the unique contributions each person brings to our team. By embracing Science, Trust, Respect, Integrity, Diversity, and Entrepreneurship (STRIDE), we create an environment where collaboration thrives, ideas flourish, and transformative changes happen. STRIDE represents more than just letters; it embodies our shared identity and drives our mission. We are dedicated to developing breakthrough therapies that transform patients' lives, advancing medicine, and supporting one another in these pursuits.

Immunocore is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. As such, we are committed to fostering an inclusive workplace where everyone feels valued, respected, and empowered. We encourage applications from individuals of all backgrounds, regardless of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, age, national origin, disability status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

As Principal Scientist, Analytical Development, you will set and influence analytical strategies across Immunocore's therapeutic project portfolio. You will provide ICH-compliant assay validation expertise and lead the development and qualification of advanced biophysical analytical methods to support drug substance and product testing. You will act as a strategic partner within cross-functional teams and deliver high-quality analytical data and regulatory documentation that drive the success of Immunocore's therapeutic pipeline.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
* Set and influence analytical program strategies across our therapeutic project portfolio
* Represent analytical development within cross-functional project teams, providing strategic support and technical consultancy
* Provide ICH compliant assay validation expertise to the department
* Oversee development and qualification of biophysical analytical methods including electrophoretic and chromatographic (eg. CE-SDS, SE-HPLC, IEX-HPLC, icIEF, excipient quantitation, titre assessment) methods to support drug substance and drug product release and stability testing for the Immunocore therapeutic drug portfolio.
* Oversee technical

Immunocore (NASDAQ: IMCR) is a pioneering, commercial-stage T cell receptor biotechnology company whose purpose is to develop and commercialize a new generation of transformative medicines which address unmet patient needs in oncology, infectious diseases and autoimmune disease. Our leaders in R&D are internationally recognised as some of the biotech industry's most successful drug developers. We are creating not just an environment where great minds can interact but an innovation powerhouse answering the big questions.

Focused on delivering first-in-class biological therapies to patients, we have developed a highly innovative soluble TCR platform. Our ImmTAX molecules underpin a new generation of precision engineered drugs that harness the immune system to treat a broad spectrum of diseases with high unmet medical need, including oncology, infectious diseases and autoimmune diseases.

At Immunocore, we recognize that our employees are our greatest asset. We value the unique contributions each person brings to our team. By embracing Science, Trust, Respect, Integrity, Diversity, and Entrepreneurship (STRIDE), we create an environment where collaboration thrives, ideas flourish, and transformative changes happen. STRIDE represents more than just letters; it embodies our shared identity and drives our mission. We are dedicated to developing breakthrough therapies that transform patients' lives, advancing medicine, and supporting one another in these pursuits.

Immunocore is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. As such, we are committed to fostering an inclusive workplace where everyone feels valued, respected, and empowered. We encourage applications from individuals of all backgrounds, regardless of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, age, national origin, disability status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

As Associate Scientist Analytical Development, you will contribute to developing analytical methods to support Immunocore's expanding pipeline of biopharmaceuticals. The core focus will be development and

Immunocore (NASDAQ: IMCR) is a pioneering, commercial-stage T cell receptor biotechnology company whose purpose is to develop and commercialize a new generation of transformative medicines which address unmet patient needs in oncology, infectious diseases and autoimmune disease. Our leaders in R&D are internationally recognised as some of the biotech industry's most successful drug developers. We are creating not just an environment where great minds can interact but an innovation powerhouse answering the big questions.

Focused on delivering first-in-class biological therapies to patients, we have developed a highly innovative soluble TCR platform. Our ImmTAX molecules underpin a new generation of precision engineered drugs that harness the immune system to treat a broad spectrum of diseases with high unmet medical need, including oncology, infectious diseases and autoimmune diseases.

At Immunocore, we recognize that our employees are our greatest asset. We value the unique contributions each person brings to our team. By embracing Science, Trust, Respect, Integrity, Diversity, and Entrepreneurship (STRIDE), we create an environment where collaboration thrives, ideas flourish, and transformative changes happen. STRIDE represents more than just letters; it embodies our shared identity and drives our mission. We are dedicated to developing breakthrough therapies that transform patients' lives, advancing medicine, and supporting one another in these pursuits.

Immunocore is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. As such, we are committed to fostering an inclusive workplace where everyone feels valued, respected, and empowered. We encourage applications from individuals of all backgrounds, regardless of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, age, national origin, disability status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

As Principal Scientist, Analytical Development, you will set and influence analytical strategies across Immunocore's therapeutic project portfolio. You will provide ICH-compliant assay validation expertise and lead the development and qualification of advanced biophysical analytical methods to support drug substance and product testing. You will act as a strategic partner within cross-functional teams and deliver high-quality analytical data and regulatory documentation that drive the success of Immunocore's therapeutic pipeline.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
Set and influence analytical program strategies across our therapeutic project portfolio
Represent analytical development within cross-functional project teams, providing strategic support and technical consultancy
Provide ICH compliant assay validation expertise to the department
Oversee development and qualification of biophysical analytical methods including electrophoretic and chromatographic (eg. CE-SDS, SE-HPLC, IEX-HPLC, icIEF, excipient quantitation, titre assessment) methods to support drug substance and drug product release and stability testing for the Immunocore therapeutic drug portfolio.
Oversee technical

• Carrying out procedures and quality control tests in accordance with company food safety standards.
• Performing laboratory research projects under Managerial supervision - these may include cooking and functional tests.
• Performing equipment calibration to ensure result validity.
• Accurately recording test results and data and maintaining records.

• Degree qualified or equivalent in Chemistry - strongly preferred.
• At least 1 years' experience working in a laboratory with high safety and standards.

• Apply previous experience and literature analysis to develop complex cell assays to answer key mechanistic questions on projects
• Maintain high standards of record-keeping for delivery of data and reports to clients
• Execute medium/high throughput screening of novel antibodies/compounds
• Excellent communication of data and advise on strategy to external stakeholders

• Minimum BSc or equivalent in a Biological Science.
• At least 1-2 years post-graduate experience in an industrial or translational lab setting (pharma or biotech).
• Previous experience in human primary immune cells
• Direct practical knowledge of flow cytometry
• Experience maintaining electronic note books

• High throughput screening cell assay screening
• Development of flow cytometry assays

• Carrying out laboratory testing of materials and samples.
• Recording and reporting test results.

• Degree/HND/HNC in Chemistry, Materials Science or a related field.
• Experience working in a laboratory, ideally in polymers.
• Must have a full UK Driving Licence, be able to drive and have access to a car.