Library & Digital Support Officer

Join our Team as a Library & Digital Support Officer at Lucideon!

We are looking for an enthusiastic, creative, and analytical Library & Digital Support Officer to join our Information Services team on a part time basis.

Role Purpose

Our Information Services team is unique in so many ways; providing timely, efficient, added value resource to both inform business decisions and support Technology Partners in their R&D activities. They are a source of valuable knowledge who support our work and R&D functions across the breadth of our business and Technology Partners, utilising methodologies and resources from our collections, putting research questions into context, and identifying possible gap(s) in current knowledge for further research. As a Library & Digital Support Officer at Lucideon, you would play a critical role in the Information Services Team.

Key Responsibilities

• Configuration and optimisation of library systems, processes and services
• Management, maintenance and development of the library management system (LOIS hosted by Soutron)
• Liaising with our technical suppliers to ensure online services are up-to-date and to resolve any issues.
• Collection management and development including book ordering and cataloguing
• Connecting with internal & external clients to deliver content and services required to support their work/R&D
• Providing a document supply service
• Providing literature searches to support R&D both internally and externally
• Providing insights to internal teams on current trends, e.g., articles/events of interest to the business.
• Onboarding of new Technology Partners and Lucideon employees
• Providing information literacy training
• Providing copyright awareness across the business
• Promotion of the library
• Keeping up to date on professional skills and library best practice and its application to Lucideon to ensure that we are positioned to take advantage of new developments (e.g., AI), working practices, and alternative sources of content/best value.
  
  

Benefits Include

• Permanent position
• 3 days per week
• Onsite at our office in Stone, Staffordshire
• Private Medical Insurance (including a cash plan to pay most excesses, and the option to enrol other family members)
• Medical Cash Plan
• Annual leave of 25 days plus bank holidays (including Christmas shutdown)
• Pension scheme (matched up to 5%)
• Onsite Mental Health First Aiders
• Life Assurance up to four times basic salary
  
  

Qualifications

• HNC or Degree in a Science, STEM subject or Information Science
• Postgraduate Library or Information Science qualification desirable but not mandatory
  
  

Knowledge/Skills/Experience

• Experience working in a library or information service would be ideal
• Interest in science / research
• Excellent computer skills with demonstratable high level of pc literacy, including experience with interactive, mobile and social networking technologies
• Experience in carrying out literature/evidence searches
• Good organisational skills with attention to detail
• Ability to work to deadlines, manage own workload and set priorities
• Excellent communication skills
• Team player
• Problem solver
• Research and analytical skills with the ability to make recommendations
  
  

Here at Lucideon we are passionate about making the world a materially better place. And that’s exactly what we strive to do, day in day out, using our capabilities, expertise, and technologies in materials science and testing, to solve problems and provide innovative solutions. Our society rightly demands ever more environmentally-focused application of resources and energy; our vision is to be the world’s number one trusted materials science partner, providing unrivalled technical expertise to enable, enhance, and accelerate our customers’ activities… and to satisfy those demands.

We are materials magicians. Our range of activities is fascinating and diverse. We make damaged nuclear reactors secure. We ensure medicines stay safe. We reduce our customers’ energy consumption and monitor their CO2 emissions. We keep aircraft engines turning. We test the world’s most iconic buildings…even making sure the roof of Wembley Stadium doesn’t collapse! We make sure replacement hip joints stand the test of time. We improve toothpaste and shampoo. We even have some of our products on Mars. And that’s just a few examples. There is never a dull day at Lucideon!

Ready to kickstart your career journey? Apply now!