Assistant Workshop Technician

Department: School of Engineering & Materials Science
Salary: £31,421 – £38,165 per annum (Grade 3)
Reference: 1148
Location: Mile End
Date posted: 31 January 2024
Closing date: 21 February 2024

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Overview

About the Role

The School of Engineering and Material Science (SEMS) is seeking to appoint a Assistant Workshop Technician. SEMS is a large School with circa 80 academics and around 50 postdoctoral research staff. There are around 1500 undergraduate and taught postgraduate students and 180 PhD students on the London campus. These are supported by an administrative and technical staff of circa 45. The workshop facilities are a core resource for multiple schools. The post holder will work as part of a mechanical workshop team to support research and teaching programmes.

About You

You should have:

• Minimum of 5 GCSEs (or equivalent) at Grade A-C including in English and Mathematics
• City & Guilds Mechanical Engineering Technician Certificate or equivalent technical education
• Ability to support the day-to-day running of a busy workshop with a high throughput of students
• Previous experience in the workshop environment

About the School

This post is within the School of Engineering and Materials Science, a large School with approximately 75 academic staff and 200 PhD students and 45 postdoctoral research staff. There are around 1200 undergraduate and taught postgraduate students and 220 PhD students. Circa 40 administrative and technical staff support the staff and students. The staff and student body are international in make-up. The School holds a departmental-level Bronze Athena SWAN award and is committed to equality of opportunity.

About Queen Mary
At Queen Mary University of London, we believe that a diversity of ideas helps us achieve the previously unthinkable.

Throughout our history, we’ve fostered social justice and improved lives through academic excellence. And we continue to live and breathe this spirit today, not because it’s simply ‘the right thing to do’ but for what it helps us achieve and the intellectual brilliance it delivers.

Our reformer heritage informs our conviction that great ideas can and should come from anywhere. It’s an approach that has brought results across the globe, from the communities of east London to the favelas of Rio de Janeiro.

We continue to embrace diversity of thought and opinion in everything we do, in the belief that when views collide, disciplines interact, and perspectives intersect, truly original thought takes form.

Benefits
We offer competitive salaries, access to a generous pension scheme, 30 days’ leave per annum (pro-rata for part-time/fixed-term), a season ticket loan scheme and access to a comprehensive range of personal and professional development opportunities. In addition, we offer a range of work life balance and family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements, and campus facilities including an on-site nursery at the Mile End campus.

Queen Mary’s commitment to our diverse and inclusive community is embedded in our appointments processes. Reasonable adjustments will be made at each stage of the recruitment process for any candidate with a disability.

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