QualityControlTechnician-SummerInternship

We're looking for a talented chemistry **undergraduate or graduate** to join our consumables team for a **3-month summer internship** as a **Quality Control Technician** at the intersection of polymer science, surface chemistry, and precision measurement. You'll be trusted with real investigative work from day one: characterising hydrophobicity, running volumetric and liquid-recovery studies, and helping build the technical case for the next generation of low-retention consumables. If you want to see how laboratory chemistry translates into products that accelerate human health research, this is where it happens. **About us:** Based in Cambridge, UK, [](https://www.sptlabtech.com/)[SPT Labtech](https://www.sptlabtech.com/) makes products that transform the way scientists work. For more than two decades, our expert scientists, engineers, and business innovators have delivered world-leading solutions for liquid handling, sample preparation, and sample management that help accelerate research and make a real difference to human health. We work collaboratively with our customers, building trusted relationships that enable us to deliver exceptional, personalised experiences designed for real-world lab challenges. _This internship is an opportunity to gain hands-on industry experience inside a fast-growing life-science company where quality is central to everything we make._ **ROLE OVERVIEW** A significant focus of this role is the surface behaviour of our consumables, particularly how surface properties influence liquid retention, sample recovery, and dispensing accuracy. Our tips interact with aqueous samples in ways that are directly governed by surface chemistry and micro-geometry: parameters such as contact angle, wetting behaviour, surface energy, and bore-surface finish all affect how reliably a tip aspirates and dispenses. Understanding and characterising these properties is central to how we develop and validate new consumable formats. You will have the opportuni