Laboratory Information Management System (LIM) Specialist
Earth Sciences NZ was established on 1 July 2025 through the merger of GNS and NIWA, with the upcoming acquisition of MetService further strengthening its capabilities. Bringing together multidisciplinary expertise and advanced technology, it will excel in earth, environmental, and natural resources science across six core missions: Geological Hazards, Weather and Climate, Energy, Land and Freshwater, Atmosphere and Climate, and Oceans.
This new entity forms part of the most significant reform to New Zealand’s science and innovation system in more than three decades, designed to create a more dynamic, collaborative, and impactful science system. Following the acquisition of MetService, Earth Sciences NZ will comprise around 1,500 staff across 22 sites, with assets of approximately $400 million and annual revenues of $370 million, including substantial commercial streams. This provides a unique opportunity to shape the future of science delivery for Aotearoa New Zealand and position the organisation as a globally recognised leader in its field. For more information, visit https://www.earthsciences.nz/.
About The Position
This fixed term 12 month parental leave position will be part of Earth Sciences New Zealand’s cutting-edge laboratory and science teams helping to address important and urgent scientific questions of societal relevance to the benefit of New Zealand in areas such as climate change, greenhouse gas emissions, biodiversity and geohazards.
Key Responsibilities Include
The purpose of this position is to support the FileMaker Laboratory Information Management Systems (LIMS) databases used in our laboratories for management of samples, analytical processes, reporting, invoicing and other data flows to enable efficient work that meets our quality and regulatory requirements. You will work with users to keep the labs functioning efficiently including organising input data and automating run processes using scripts for generation and analysis of data on laboratory instrumentation and checking outputs.
What We’re After
The ideal candidate will have the following:
What We Offer
If this sounds like the next step in your career, we’d love to hear from you.
View the full position description for this role here - https://www.gns.cri.nz/careers/. Please contact careers@gns.cri.nz with any questions or queries.
Applications close: 11.55 pm on Sunday, 1 March 2026
This new entity forms part of the most significant reform to New Zealand’s science and innovation system in more than three decades, designed to create a more dynamic, collaborative, and impactful science system. Following the acquisition of MetService, Earth Sciences NZ will comprise around 1,500 staff across 22 sites, with assets of approximately $400 million and annual revenues of $370 million, including substantial commercial streams. This provides a unique opportunity to shape the future of science delivery for Aotearoa New Zealand and position the organisation as a globally recognised leader in its field. For more information, visit https://www.earthsciences.nz/.
About The Position
This fixed term 12 month parental leave position will be part of Earth Sciences New Zealand’s cutting-edge laboratory and science teams helping to address important and urgent scientific questions of societal relevance to the benefit of New Zealand in areas such as climate change, greenhouse gas emissions, biodiversity and geohazards.
Key Responsibilities Include
The purpose of this position is to support the FileMaker Laboratory Information Management Systems (LIMS) databases used in our laboratories for management of samples, analytical processes, reporting, invoicing and other data flows to enable efficient work that meets our quality and regulatory requirements. You will work with users to keep the labs functioning efficiently including organising input data and automating run processes using scripts for generation and analysis of data on laboratory instrumentation and checking outputs.
What We’re After
The ideal candidate will have the following:
- at least 3 years programming and database software, operations, and administration experience preferably from a Science environment/laboratory
- practical experience with laboratory systems
- experience developing scientific applications of programming software to support instrument operations and data flow automation
- be able to rapidly manipulate between Excel and more advanced software
- the ability to efficiently write scripts in FileMaker (preferred), Python, R or similar environments.
What We Offer
- Varied, challenging and important work with talented colleagues in an organisation devoted to earth science.
- A high performing organisation with a focus on employee development and wellbeing
- Generous leave entitlements and employee benefits
- A full time, 12 month fixed term parental leave (38 hours per week) position based in our GNS Business Unit, at our campus in Gracefield, Lower Hutt.
- The salary range for this position is between $89,295 to $116,928 or more, depending on the successful candidate’s experience.
If this sounds like the next step in your career, we’d love to hear from you.
View the full position description for this role here - https://www.gns.cri.nz/careers/. Please contact careers@gns.cri.nz with any questions or queries.
Applications close: 11.55 pm on Sunday, 1 March 2026