Team Leader

ABOUT YOU:

You are an experienced laboratory professional and confident Team Leader, responsible for the day-to-day leadership, performance, and delivery of high-quality laboratory testing services. You excel at managing team workloads, ensuring compliance with QHSE standards, and consistently delivering strong results across quality, customer satisfaction, and productivity.

Leading by example, you combine strong technical expertise with effective people management skills to develop team capability and support the delivery of growth strategy. While remaining hands-on in the laboratory, you play a key role in shaping team performance and driving continuous improvement initiatives.

Required skills and experience:

• Degree in a scientific discipline (or equivalent experience) 

• Minimum 3 years’ experience in a UKAS-accredited laboratory 

• Previous experience leading or supervising a team 

• Strong technical, analytical, and organisational skills 

• Proficient in MS Office and laboratory systems 

• Strong communication and stakeholder engagement skills 

• Hands-on, flexible, and able to work under pressure

ABOUT THE OPPORTUNITY  

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced laboratory professional with proven leadership capability to join a fast-paced, quality-driven analytical environment. As Team Leader, you will lead a multidisciplinary team to deliver accurate, timely, and fully compliant testing services, supporting client operations across the energy sector.

In this role, you will play a key part in driving team performance, enhancing technical capability, and contributing to continuous improvement initiatives. 

• Lead and prioritise daily team workload to ensure efficient delivery in line with technical standards and client requirements

• Act as a role model, driving high performance and ensuring quality and customer expectations are consistently met Manage client quotations, purchase orders, and contract reviews in line with authority limits

• Develop, train, and support team members to build technical capability and performance

• Oversee analysis turnaround, reporting accuracy, and authorised sign-off of results and billing

• Maintain strong customer relationships and represent the business externally

• Ensure equipment reliability, calibration, and reporting of faults or non-conformance's

• Support KPI tracking, performance reporting, and continuous improvement initiatives

• Contribute to projects, method development, and validation activities

• Manage stock levels and ensure operational readiness of the laboratory

• Drive a high-performance, customer-focused culture with a focus on continuous improvement

• Identify business growth opportunities and support commercial activities 

WHAT WE OFFER 

Join Intertek and become part of our global network of inspiring and entrepreneurial colleagues.  We are a global family that values diversity and we thrive working together with precision, pace and passion.  We are working to make the world Ever Better, ensuring the quality, safety and sustainability of products and services used by millions of people around the world. 

• Competitive salary/benefits  
• Development and career opportunities around the Globe  
• Working in a highly motivated team and dynamic working environment 

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and are committed to creating an inclusive workplace. We do not discriminate against applicants, and all qualified individuals will receive consideration for employment regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy or maternity, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, sex, or sexual orientation.

We are committed to fair and equitable pay and are proud to be a Real Living Wage employer, ensuring our colleagues are compensated in line with independently assessed living standards. We are also committed to providing reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process and employment to support candidates and employees with disabilities or special needs.

Intertek operates a preferred supplier arrangement, and we do not accept unsolicited approaches from agencies.