Seaweed Nursery Technician

Location: SAMS Enterprise, Malin House, Oban
Contract Type: Fixed Term (12 months)
Working Pattern: Full Time (37hrs per week, Monday to Friday)
Salary range: £23,144 – £23,700 per annum.

The Role

Supported by the Seaweed Nursery Technical Lead, this person will assist in essential seaweed
nursery activities and work within the seaweed nursery team on a day-to-day basis. You will be
assisting in the operational activities of the nursery, including aquarium maintenance and
macroalgae propagation to ensure commercial and internal seaweed orders/ targets are achieved.

The Seaweed Nursery is a critical resource to SAMS position as a centre of excellence in
seaweed farming science and application in the UK, Europe and world-wide. This role is pivotal
to the ongoing success of Seaweed at SAMS.

Working collaboratively with Enterprise and Research colleagues these duties include but are
not limited to: Assisting in sporulation events and macroalgae propagation, aquarium
maintenance (e.g. tank disinfection, aquaria construction, water sampling), consumable stock
management, general laboratory work and additional SAMS seaweed related activities when
required.

Our Ideal Candidate

Our ideal candidate will have a BSc degree in a relevant subject matter. You will also have experience
with algal culturing techniques and working with aquaculture tank systems.

You will have excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, to a professional
standard. You will also demonstrate a willingness to support other Enterprise activities.

Additional specific training required will be provided to the successful candidate.

Employee Benefits

Our employees are the heart of our business. Recruiting and retaining the right people is the
key to our success. Rewarding our employees is therefore an important component of our
employment package and we have a wide range of benefits on offer to staff. These can enhance
your personal and professional development, your health and well-being and your finances.

Additionally, SAMS encourages and recognises excellence among staff through various recognition
and reward arrangements. We constantly develop and expand the benefits and offers for our
colleagues.

SAMS offers a generous salary and pension as well as employee benefits package. We also have
supportive policies to assist absence, family and other leave types.

Interested?

We would love to hear from you. If you have queries on the job and would like to talk these
through before applying, please email these through, in the first instance, to Ryan Marchington
– [email protected]

For more information, please visit www.sams.ac.uk/vacancies

Applications must include CV and Cover Letter and should be sent electronically to [email protected] quoting Job Ref ‘SE5/23.RM’ in the
subject heading.