Technical Services Manager

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School of Medicine
Location:  UK Other
Salary: 
£33,966 to £45,585
per annum (pro-rata if applicable) depending on skills and experience. Salary progression beyond this scale is subject to performance.
Closing Date:  Sunday 07 January 2024
Reference:  MED556423

We are looking for a friendly, enthusiastic, and driven person to join the School of Medicine’s Core Technical Services Community. This role will be based on University Park, leading the School’s University Park Technical Team, a highly skilled and dynamic group supporting multiple buildings performing multi-disciplinary teaching and research. 

You will provide operational management of the school’s technical services staff to enable the delivery of an excellent professional service across the school, for both teaching and research. You will have responsibility for one of the school’s sites and will deal with tasks, issues and requests, delegating to your staff. You will manage multiple teaching and research laboratories, ensuring that the needs of a range of stakeholders are met. You will have responsibility for the planning and performance within your laboratories. You will work with independence and initiative to manage processes and projects and react to changing priorities and work circumstances, organising your teams work to meet your set objectives. 

You will be a dynamic and effective individual, with the ability to prioritise competing demands to present informed recommendations to senior management together with the ability to implement recommendations. This will include monitoring and reporting on progress against strategic and operational plans and key performance indicators and drafting procedure and arrangement documents in line with University policy. 

Typical key elements of this role includes:

• Provide direction, leadership, management and support to your team, as well as other staff and students.
• Manage technical training requirements ensuring these include opportunities for mobility, to enhance technical skills and provide resilience in their respective area(s).
• Lead projects and manage the implementation of recommendations, actions, and activities, including direct liaison with senior leaders.
• Monitor, and where appropriate, manage allocated budget and resources effectively, ensuring operational finances remain within an allocated budget.
• Guidance and direct ordering for staff and students that you support.
• Ensure that support staff within area of responsibility are kept abreast of activities within the School by dissemination of information, ensuring two-way feedback mechanisms and communication streams are open to ensure transparency.

This is a permanent, full time (36.25 hours per week) post. Job share arrangements may be considered.

Informal enquiries may be addressed to Owen McIntosh – email [email protected]. Please note that applications sent directly to this email address will not be accepted.

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