Technical Coordinator (Lime Grove)

Employer: University of the Arts London
Location: UAL - Lime Grove, London UK
Salary: £42,477 to £50,961 per annum
Contract: Full time
Hours: Full time

Job description

The opportunity

If you offer technical skills and experience in Art & Design this position offers an exciting opportunity to play a key role supporting pre-degree studies students at Lime Grove. 

Housed in a beautiful 19th-century building in West London, our Lime Grove site offers a creative learning space for pre-degree students.

The facilities at Lime Grove include:

• 3D Digital Fabrication – 3D printing, scanning, vac forming and plastics
• Casting – clay and plaster work and mould making (including small sampling kiln for small ceramic work)
• Printmaking (including basic textiles sublimation printing) screen printing, etching & relief and mono printing
• Performance spaces
• Stitch & knit – access to sewing & knitting machines, weaving looms,

As a Technical Coordinator, you will support the practical delivery of technical workshops and student learning activities, using your specialist subject knowledge to facilitate and coordinate the students’ practical work.

You will oversee the safe operation and management of designated technical resources and will also line manage and support a group of Specialist and Support Technicians with student learning activities.

About you

BA level qualifications in Art & Design or equivalent Industry level experience is essential.

Demonstrable practical knowledge of H&S, COSHH, Risk Assessment and safe working practices is equally important.

You will also need proven experience and/or qualifications in a wide range of making technologies, including an understanding of emerging digital technologies and digital developments within art & design 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.

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