Environmental Laboratory Analyst

About This Role

The Environmental Laboratory Analyst delivers efficient analytical services to customers, ensuring safety, quality, and environmental standards are met. This role involves conducting chemistry analysis on various sample types to support client sites and enable site license permits.

Responsibilities

• Assist in the delivery of assigned programmes of work to support the overall delivery of analytical results to time and quality
• Comply with the laboratory quality management systems to support accreditation
• Comply with processes and procedures to enable safe working practices
• Work as part of an effective team to support and coach each other to provide a consistent and efficient level of service
• Identify and report issues to maintain and improve operational capability and level of service
• Assist with the validation of new and existing techniques and equipment prior to use to comply with quality systems

Requirements

• Experience in analytical chemistry
• Awareness of conventional and radiological safety
• Awareness of ISO17025 standard
• Science A Level at grade A to C or equivalent and/or significant practical laboratory experience

Benefits

• Generous holiday allowance
• Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
• Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+
• Employee share scheme
• Employee shopping savings portal
• Payment of Professional Fees
• Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave
• Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows UK Cavendish employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement. This Window opens February through to March annually.
• 'Be Kind Day' enables employees to take one working day's paid leave a year (or equivalent hours) to undertake volunteering work with their chosen organisation or registered charity
• Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing.

Important Details

• Schedule: 37 hours per week
• Contract: permanent
• Application deadline: 23/10/2026

Security Clearance

• The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Standard (BPSS) security clearance for this role.

About the Company

Cavendish Nuclear is a team of approximately 5,000 specialists and a core part of Babcock International Group. The company works across clean energy, defence, and civil decommissioning, contributing to projects critical to energy security and national protection.