Support Technician 3D

Employer: University of the Arts London
Location: CSM - King's Cross, London UK
Salary: £32,624 - £39,342 per annum (pro rata)
Contract: Term time only
Hours: Term time only

Job description

The opportunity

If you are a skilled, well-organised and creative individual with previous workshop related experience, then we have an exciting opportunity for you. University of the Arts London (UAL) is looking for two Support Technicians to join our 3D Make team.

3D Make is made up of two sets of wood and metal workshops on the ground and first floor as well as a supported open workbench space, general workshop, 3D Make Digital and the Digital Fabrication Bureau which support a wide range of practice, students and courses both at Undergraduate and Postgraduate. 

As a Support Technician you will be working within our 3D Make workshops at our Kings Cross site, assisting students with their work and ensuring safe use of the facilities. You will not only bring key skills with you but will also have the opportunity to develop new skills and experience across a range of technical workshops. The post holder will work under the guidance of the Technical Coordinator and Specialist Technicians in providing technical support for taught programs and open access workshops. 

You will also have the opportunity to develop new skills and experience across a range of technical workshops.

The job is a term-time only post of 35 weeks per year (you would be paid year-round).

About you

We are looking for makers, practitioners and those with craft skills, who possess knowledge and experience with a range of workshop-based activities and materials including wood, metal, plastics and preferably some knowledge of digital fabrication.

You will have a strong understanding of effective Health and Safety practice within an educational environment and will be able to use a range of methods, tools and equipment to achieve a safe and acceptable standard of work, whilst developing your abilities and finding new ways of improving safe working practices.

We are UAL

University of the Arts London (UAL) offers an extensive range of courses in art, design, fashion, communication and performing arts. We are a collegiate University spread across London with six Colleges, four Institutes and five Research Centres. UAL also has two subsidiary companies, delivering specialist activities – UAL Short Courses Ltd, and UAL Arts Temps Ltd.

We’re made up of all types of people, coming together in London, the world’s creative capital. We are designers, artists, performers, thinkers, researchers and makers. Our students, staff and graduates form a global network of creatives, entrepreneurs and leaders. Together, our ideas change the world. Because the world needs creativity.

We are ranked highly across the board. We are ranked first for specialist art and design, second in the world for Art and Design in the 2024 QS World University Rankings (for the sixth year in a row), ranked fifth in sustainability and two of our colleges were rated in the top three fashion schools in the world.

Closing date: 13 October 2024, 11:55 pm