Senior Technician (Aerospace Teaching)

The University of Manchester; Manchester; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 38,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fantastic market leading Pension plan

Employee health and wellbeing services

Exceptional annual leave entitlement +

Additional paid Christmas closure

Local and national discounts

Job summary

The Senior Technician (Aerospace Teaching) provides specialist technical advice, practical support and day-to-day coordination across Aerospace teaching spaces.

Working with the Teaching Technical Specialist and the wider technical team, the role prepares, operates, maintains and demonstrates equipment used in practical classes, supports students and staff, and helps plan resources and improvements, ensuring the Aerospace teaching is safe, inclusive and delivered to a high standard.

Responsibilities

• Prepare, operate, maintain and demonstrate equipment used in practical classes.
• Support students and staff across Aerospace teaching spaces.
• Help plan resources and improvements to ensure safe, reliable and high-quality teaching.

Job description

The Senior Technician (Aerospace Teaching) provides specialist technical advice, practical support and day-to-day coordination across Aerospace teaching spaces. Working with the Teaching Technical Specialist and the wider technical team, the role prepares, operates, maintains and demonstrates equipment used in practical classes, supports students and staff, and helps plan resources and improvements. The role makes a direct difference to the student experience by ensuring that Aerospace teaching is safe, reliable, inclusive and delivered to a consistently high standard.

As Technical Staff, you are part of Professional Services. Together, all technical staff who work within the Faculty of Science and Engineering (FSE) form FSE Technical Operations. FSE Technical Operations is organised into five key functional areas:

Research

Teaching

Infrastructure & Facilities

Workshops

Computing, Robotics & AI

Within FSE Technical Operations, you will belong to the Teaching area.

Teaching - The teaching technical team provides high quality technical advice and support to students of all years of education. They also support academic staff in the diverse range of areas within the Faculty of Science and Engineering. The team are led by several Teaching Technical Specialists (TTS) who are responsible for managing and coordinating technical support for teaching in each of their specific disciplines. This includes all related teaching space, associated equipment and ensuring all Health and Safety obligations are met. The team support a host of taught units within each department. These can be based in computer clusters, bespoke labs or other shared areas. They also support student projects, student societies and field trips in the areas of Civil engineering, Aero and Earth Science. The team works closely with Timetabling, Discipline Heads of Education and laboratory tutors to advise on experiment design and the technical resource required for its delivery.

Within the Teaching area, you will be part of the Aerospace Teaching Technical Team.

What you will get in return:

• Fantastic market leading Pension scheme
• Excellent employee health and wellbeing services including an Employee Assistance Programme
• Exceptional starting annual leave entitlement, plus bank holidays
• Additional paid closure over the Christmas period
• Local and national discounts at a range of major retailers

As an equal opportunities employer we welcome applicants from all sections of the community regardless of age, sex, gender (or gender identity), ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation and transgender status. All appointments are made on merit.

Our University is positive about flexible working you can find out more here

Please be aware that due to the number of applications we unfortunately may not able to provide individual feedback on your application.

Please note that we are unable to respond to enquiries, accept CVs or applications from Recruitment Agencies.

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Any CV's submitted by a recruitment agency will be considered a gift.

Enquiries about the vacancy, shortlisting and interviews:

Name: Natalie Parish

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General enquiries:

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This vacancy will close for applications at midnight on the closing date.

Please see the link below for the Further Particulars document which contains the person specification criteria.