Laboratory Technician – Apprentice (Level 6)
Pebble Biotechnology Laboratories Limited
Wilmslow (SK9 4LD)
Closes on Monday 1 June 2026
Posted on 27 January 2026
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Summary
We are looking for a degree apprentice to join our team and train to become a qualified Laboratory Technician, whilst also studying for a BSc (Hons) Bioscience at Manchester Metropolitan University.
The apprenticeship is primarily workplace based and as such you will need to live within a commutable distance of the workplace.
- Wage
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£14,722.50 to £23,809.50, depending on your age
National Minimum Wage
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Salary in line with minimum living wage for apprentices
- Training course
- Scientist (level 6)
- Hours
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Working hours change depending on the working schedule for the week as we run experiments 24 hours a day and there are occasional night shifts required. Normal working hours (9 am- 5 pm/M-F) when no experiments
37 hours 30 minutes a week
- Start date
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Tuesday 1 September 2026
- Duration
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4 years
- Positions available
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Work
Most of your apprenticeship is spent working. You’ll learn on the job by getting hands-on experience.
What you'll do at work
- Prepare solutions for perfusion experiments (weighing out chemicals, mixing solutions, assessing pH, etc)
- Assist in building ex vivo perfusion circuits (including setting up cell saver machines)
- Draw up all the therapeutics required for the experiment
- Perform cell saving of blood on experiment days
- Assist in all aspects of ex vivo perfusions (including set up, monitoring, performing arterial blood gases, collecting samples and cleaning down after the experiment)
- Labelling and storing samples as required (this may include centrifuging samples down and aliquoting for storage, snap freezing in liquid nitrogen, storing in OCT, etc.)
- Record all data and results in specified forms (paper and electronic) with accuracy and responsibility
- Maintaining laboratory stock levels and equipment, and liaising with the stock control manager
- Organise and store all chemical substances, fluids and compressed gases according to safety instructions
- Read relevant literature to provide an understanding of the work and to assist in protocol development discussions
- Attend laboratory meetings to discuss experimental plans and provide an update from previous experiments
- Attend monthly presentations and contribute when assigned a topic
- Assist in all other laboratory maintenance and tasks as required
- Ensure that all safety guidelines are always followed strictly and maintain a clean and orderly environment
- Work on quality improvement projects
Where you'll work
122 Hollin Lane
Styal
Wilmslow
SK9 4LD
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
MANCHESTER METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY
Training course
Scientist (level 6)
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What you'll learn
Course contents
- Identify and apply scientific approaches to solve problems, support investigations and recommend any follow-up experiments.
- Evaluate scientific experiments using an appropriate level of qualitative and quantitative numerical analysis.
- Critically analyse data, relevant literature and input from colleagues to inform investigations.
- Analyse, interpret and evaluate scientific data and present the results in written and oral form.
- Manage record keeping to ensure data integrity, traceability, confidentiality and adherence with appropriate regulatory requirements.
- Promote, enact, document, and monitor the application of quality standards, safe working practices and compliance with risk management systems relevant to the role.
- Identify opportunities to challenge assumptions and apply influencing skills to make improvements, make new proposals and build on existing ideas.
- Manage work plan, prioritise tasks and evaluate progress against objectives.
- Contribute to the development of technical projects across multi-skilled teams and share best practice across the wider business.
- Conduct complex (chemical, or physical, or biological) scientific investigations in accordance with defined company procedures and legislative requirements.
- Identify and implement continuous performance improvement using appropriate techniques.
- Ensure work meets environmental, risk management and sustainability requirements and regulations of the business sector.
- Evaluate own performance and knowledge, and set personal development goals.
- Troubleshoot equipment selection and implement sustainable solutions.
- Identify and collaborate with key stakeholders and provide technical support and advice where required.
- Identify how other roles in the organisation can contribute to achieving sustainability goals.
- Select and apply equipment, techniques, and methods to ensure reliable and accurate results.
- Undertake practical analyses and measurement and communicate the outcomes using appropriate terminology and mathematical and graphical notation.
- Use appropriate digital solutions for the collection and analysis of data, and the retrieval of appropriate information.
- Use communication methods suited to objective and audience.
- Use theoretical models, often involving approximations, to make quantitative predictions.
- Apply chemical concepts and theories to investigations.
- Design, develop and carry out chemical science investigations.
- Recommend synthetic pathways to target-compounds and design experimental activities to test predictions.
- Design and deploy purification, isolation and characterisation strategies, taking account of physicochemical properties of elements and compounds.
- Design, develop and carry out qualitative and quantitative sample preparation, chemical measurement, and analysis.
- Critically compare the results of theoretical or computational modelling with those from experiment and observation.
- Apply physics theories to solve problems that cross scientific discipline boundaries.
- Apply computational techniques to analysis and model physical behaviour.
- Apply physics concepts and theories to investigations.
- Design, develop and carry out physics based investigations.
- Use mathematical techniques and theories to solve physics problems.
- Use computer programming software to solve physics based problems.
- Critically analyse current and emerging developments in the biosciences and the contribution of Biosciences to the wider industry.
- Apply Biological concepts and theories to investigations.
- Design, develop and carry out biological investigations
- Perform tasks related to sample preparation and culturing techniques.
- Use of laboratory automation systems.
- Perform sampling with consideration for sample variation.
- Identify and apply scientific approaches to solve problems, support investigations and recommend any follow-up experiments.
- Evaluate scientific experiments using an appropriate level of qualitative and quantitative numerical analysis.
- Critically analyse data, relevant literature and input from colleagues to inform investigations.
- Analyse, interpret and evaluate scientific data and present the results in written and oral form.
- Manage record keeping to ensure data integrity, traceability, confidentiality and adherence with appropriate regulatory requirements.
- Promote, enact, document, and monitor the application of quality standards, safe working practices and compliance with risk management systems relevant to the role.
- Identify opportunities to challenge assumptions and apply influencing skills to make improvements, make new proposals and build on existing ideas.
- Manage work plan, prioritise tasks and evaluate progress against objectives.
- Contribute to the development of technical projects across multi-skilled teams and share best practice across the wider business.
- Conduct complex (chemical, or physical, or biological) scientific investigations in accordance with defined company procedures and legislative requirements.
- Identify and implement continuous performance improvement using appropriate techniques.
- Ensure work meets environmental, risk management and sustainability requirements and regulations of the business sector.
- Evaluate own performance and knowledge, and set personal development goals.
- Troubleshoot equipment selection and implement sustainable solutions.
- Identify and collaborate with key stakeholders and provide technical support and advice where required.
- Identify how other roles in the organisation can contribute to achieving sustainability goals.
- Select and apply equipment, techniques, and methods to ensure reliable and accurate results.
- Undertake practical analyses and measurement and communicate the outcomes using appropriate terminology and mathematical and graphical notation.
- Use appropriate digital solutions for the collection and analysis of data, and the retrieval of appropriate information.
- Use communication methods suited to objective and audience.
- Use theoretical models, often involving approximations, to make quantitative predictions.
Training schedule
Training will be primarily on the job in the workplace, in conjunction with study at Manchester Metropolitan University
More training information
A full training schedule will be prepared for the candidate during their apprenticeship, covering aspects including:
- Porcine anatomy
- Ex vivo normothermic perfusion
- Cell saving
- Arterial blood gas analysis
- Surgical techniques, including dissection
- Pipetting
- Sample processing and storage, including the use of a centrifuge, liquid nitrogen, OCT, etc.
- Protocol development and planning
- Experimental documentation
- Data analysis and presentation
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE in:
Desirable qualifications
A Level in:
Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.
Skills
- Communication skills
- IT skills
- Attention to detail
- Organisation skills
- Problem solving skills
- Presentation skills
- Administrative skills
- Number skills
- Analytical skills
- Logical
- Team working
- Initiative
- Non judgemental
Other requirements
- Live within a commutable distance of the workplace - ideally Greater Manchester or immediate surrounding areas
- Be comfortable working on shifts - including nightshifts
- Be comfortable working with organs and other materials
- Right to work in the UK
- Full UK Driving Licence
About this employer
Pebble Biotechnology Laboratories (Pebble) evaluates the world's most innovative therapies using living organs maintained outside the body, perfused with blood and functioning as they would in a living patient. The data we generate helps determine which therapies advance to patients. We are founded on three ethical directives that are absolute:
- We will never use laboratory animals, our mission is to find genuine alternatives that work.
- We're committed to tangible science that benefits patients, not dogma or routine.
- We have a genuine mission to create a brilliant working environment that nurtures the next generation of scientists.
http://pebble.bio (opens in new tab)
Company benefits
- Free parking
- Pension
- Holiday allowance (20+8 bank holidays)
- Christmas Shutdown
- Company workwear provided
After this apprenticeship
- Upon successful completion of the apprenticeship, you will be eligible to apply for other positions within the business and also have developed a set of transferable skills
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
MANCHESTER METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000010886.
Apply now
Closes on Monday 1 June 2026