Construction Technician

City of Bristol College; Bristol; Hybrid; GBP 22,000 - 28,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Holiday entitlement 26 days + bank HOL

Hybrid and flexible working

Local Government Pension Scheme 18%

Volunteering leave

Family friendly policies

Job summary

City of Bristol College is seeking a Workshop Technician to support teaching staff across our trade areas, enabling practical training and safe assessment.

You will ensure tools and materials are available, order stock, and work with fellow technicians to keep workshops in good condition while maintaining high safety standards.

This role offers a people-first culture with hybrid working, generous holiday entitlement, and access to pension schemes, volunteering leave, and development opportunities.

Qualifications

• Experience in a similar role within construction or as a tradesperson.
• Comfortable in a fast-paced environment with changing priorities.
• Ability to build relationships with internal and external stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Provide support to teachers in workshop areas to enable practical training and assessment.
• Ensure tools, equipment and materials are available at specific times across the trade area.
• Order and manage materials and stock levels in line with college policies.
• Maintain workshops and facilities to required standards to support teaching and training.
• Promote student safety behaviours and high standards of workmanship.

Skills

Trade experience

Safety awareness

Stakeholder relations

Organisational skills

Job description

One of our key strategic aims is our unrelenting focus on our people-first culture, ensuring you feel valued, empowered, and recognised for your individual contributions and expertise whether that be in a teaching capacity or a professional services team. All colleagues within the College contribute to the success of our students and we actively work to eliminate any barriers at work, ensuring you have the opportunity to thrive., The role will involve providing support to teachers in the workshop areas, to enable practical training and assessment to take place, this will include:

- Ensuring tools, equipment and materials are available at specific times across the trade area

- Ordering and managing material and stock levels in line with the college policies

- Working with the other trade area technicians to ensure workshops and facilities are maintained to the expected standards to enable effective teaching and training to take place

- We are looking for someone with experience of a similar role or who has possibly worked within construction as a labourer or tradesperson with experience of wet trades and who is confident in working in a fast-paced environment, with changing priorities.

- Recognise and reinforce positive student safety behaviours.

You will also need to be able to build and maintain excellent working relationships with stakeholders, at all levels, internally and externally, as well as other members of College staff and students.

We have four main sites across the city with state-of-the-art facilities. Further future investment in our estates is now allowing us to provide the best possible outcomes for our students and local communities, delivered by our fantastic community of colleagues.

At City of Bristol College, we have one goal: to help our students succeed. We offer the widest range of academic and vocational qualifications in the area, with more than 1,000 courses available from entry to degree level and we provide education and training to approximately 10,000 students each year.

Our people-first ethos provides a highly supportive, flexible approach to enable you to excel within your role and to reach your full potential. In return, you can expect the following:

Two-week paid Christmas close down and additional paid time off over Easter on top of a generous holiday entitlement of 26 holiday days, plus bank holidays (pro-rata for part time roles).

Membership to the Local Government Pension Scheme with employer contributions of 18.0 %

Paid Volunteering leave (3 days a year)

Family friendly policies including paid fertility and foster friendly policy

A menopause policy outlining support available

A person-centred annual appraisal focusing on your wellbeing and CPD

Access to a benefits portal including shopping discounts and cycle to work scheme plus lots more!

The 'Right to Disconnect' from work outside of your normal working hours

A supportive, highly utilised hybrid and flexible working policy

An Aspiring Leaders programme open to all plus our Management Academy for all management roles covering management skill and internal processes

Welfare Rooms at all our sites for professional breakout and relaxation spaces

A bespoke programme of recognition, reward and celebration for colleagues throughout the year to recognise your hard work.