Technician - Student Workshop

Bath; Bath; Vor Ort; GBP 27.000 - 31.000; Vollzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

Generous annual leave

Generous employer pension

Cycle to work scheme

EV salary sacrifice

Staff discount at Team Bath gym

Discounted postgraduate tuition

Museum entry benefits

Employee assistance through Health Ass

Zusammenfassung

The University of Bath's Department of Mechanical Engineering is seeking a proactive technician to join the Student Workshop team. This on-campus, full-time role supports teaching and research across undergraduate sessions and research projects.

You will work with conventional machine tools (milling machines, lathes) with a path to CNC tools, and contribute to supervising undergraduates during final year projects, including safety inductions.

Qualifikationen

• Substantial experience with mechanical workshop machine tools and hand tools.
• Aptitude for practical, hands-on work and teaching support.

Aufgaben

• Support teaching and research in the Department of Mechanical Engineering.
• Operate conventional machine tools with potential progression to CNC tools; supervise undergraduates on projects.
• Oversee student activities in the workshop and conduct inductions to ensure safety.

Kenntnisse

Mechanical workshop experience

Machine tools handling

Fitting

Fabrication

Welding

Assembly

Tools

Milling machines

Lathes

CNC training

Jobbeschreibung

Salary Starting from £27,241, rising to £30,986

We’re looking for an enthusiastic and motivated technician to join our team. The Department of Mechanical Engineering is top 10 in the UK for our undergraduate courses and internationally renowned for our research output. You can be part of this success through the technical support you provide to our students and staff.

Based mainly in the Student Workshop, the post-holder will work as part of a team of multi-skilled technicians to provide technical support to both teaching and research in the Department. The team supports timetabled undergraduate teaching sessions, numerous student competition teams and a wide range of research activities.

The role requires use of conventional machine tools (milling machines, lathes) with the opportunity to progress onto CNC machine tools, where training would be provided. The post-holder will contribute to the teaching and supervision of undergraduates in the use of machine/hand tools and during final year individual research projects.

The post-holder will also be required to oversee student activities in the workshop and carry out inductions to ensure safe working at all times.

About you

You will need to have substantial experience working with mechanical workshop machine tools, hand tools and an aptitude for practical work. We appreciate a wide range of skills in our team, so if you have experience of assembly, fitting, fabrication or welding this will be an advantage.

We want to hear from people who are flexible and adaptable in their approach to work. You will need to have a positive attitude and be willing to learn.

Further Information

This is a full time (36.5 hours per week) role with the requirement to work on campus full time.

We consider ourselves to be a university where difference is celebrated, respected and encouraged. We have an excellent international reputation with staff from over 60 different nations and have made a positive commitment towards gender equityand intersectionality receiving a Silver Athena SWAN award. We truly believe that diversity of experience, perspectives, and backgrounds will lead to a better environment for our employees and students and encourage applications from all genders, backgrounds, and communities, particularly from under-represented groups, and value the positive impact that will have on the university. We are committed to maintaining a safe and secure environment for our students, staff, and community by reinforcing our Safer Recruitment commitment.

We're continually expanding our benefits package to better support you and enhance your experience with us and the below is just an example of some of the many great benefits we offer:

• Generous annual leave allowance with an additional 5 discretionary days so that you can enjoy a positive work life balance
• Generous employer contributory pension schemes
• Cycle to work scheme
• Electric vehicle salary sacrifice scheme
• Staff discount at Team Bath gym
• Staff benefits include discounted postgraduate tuition and language courses, alongside a wide range of personal and professional development opportunities such as apprenticeships, LinkedIn Learning, and more
• Local discounts, including free entry to the Holburne Museum in Bath
• An excellent reward package that recognises the talents of our diverse workforce
• Employee assistance services through Health Assured, including access to the Wisdom app

We’re committed to creating a health-supporting working environment where everyone can thrive and be at their best. We offer a range of resources to enable you to do that from your first day here, including:

• Staff support groups and networks
• A network of Staff Wellbeing Champions
• A suite of tools, resources and frameworks that enable you to be at your best and thrive

Right to Work in the UK:

We do not assess immigration or right to work status until offer stage. Being invited to interview does not guarantee you are eligible for visa sponsorship and all offers are conditional on meeting right to work requirements. Further information is available on our application support webpage.

Anonymous shortlisting:

We are constantly seeking to reduce the unconscious bias that enters any assessment process, with the goal of creating an inclusive and equal assessment process. To support this, personal details such as your name, may be removed from application forms at the initial shortlisting stage.