Senior Laboratory Technician

Senior Laboratory Technician (Senior School)

Location: Keysborough

Work Type: Part Time, Permanent Position (0.4 FTE hours per week)

Commencing on: 20 January 2026

Applications Close: Monday 27 October 2025, 10.00am

Haileybury is looking for a skilled and enthusiastic Senior Laboratory Technician to join our Science team. You will play a key role in supporting dynamic, hands-on learning by preparing experiments, maintaining equipment, and ensuring a safe and inspiring laboratory environment for students.

Main Duties:

Set up equipment, prepare materials, and assist teaching staff to ensure smooth execution of practical sessions and experiments.

Maintain cleanliness, security, and safety standards, including proper storage, labelling of chemicals, and record-keeping as required by authorities.

Order and maintain consumable stocks, manage resource inventories, trial experiments, and coordinate repair work with the maintenance department.

Working predominantly in VCE Systems Engineering and Physics.

About you:

At Haileybury we are seeking a brilliant laboratory technician. We are looking for team members who have:

• Proven ability to multi-task and manage time effectively.
• Strong organizational skills to handle multiple responsibilities efficiently.
• Experience working with children from culturally and/or linguistically diverse backgrounds.
• Well-organized and patient.
• Enthusiastic, conscientious, and a collaborative team player.

If this sounds like you, we encourage you to apply to join the team at Haileybury where we aim to create a supportive culture and learning environment that fosters both academic achievement and personal growth for our students.

About Haileybury

Haileybury's vision is to be recognised as a great world school. Our mission is to deliver an exceptional educational experience that fosters the growth of each student through leading teaching and learning programs, a wide array of opportunities, within a culture of high expectations, empowering students to excel.

Everything that we do is centered around our Magenta Principles, striving to be more than a school. Our principles support and shape this in our daily work:

• Every student matters every day
• Every staff member matters every day
• Effective practices support sustainability
• One inclusive community

Haileybury offers a flexible, diverse, and inclusive workplace. We're focused on embracing change and celebrating our people.

Why work for us:

• Competitive salary based on experience
• Ongoing professional and leadership development
• Excellent on-site facilities, grounds, technology and working environment
• Opportunities for secondment across our Melbourne campuses, Haileybury Rendall School (Darwin), and Haileybury Tianjin (China)
• Variety of hybrid and flexible opportunities, including working at Haileybury Pangea, our online school and across multiple Melbourne campus locations
• Employee benefits and assistance program.

Want to find out more?

To apply, please click on the "Apply Now" button to be directed to our online recruitment portal.

Haileybury is committed to the protection of children and the promotion of a culturally safe and supportive working environment for diverse communities. The successful applicant will be required to satisfy child protection screening and adhere at all times to the school's Child Safety and Wellbeing Policy ).

Haileybury is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We welcome applicants from people of all backgrounds, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.