Overview
Technician – Strand, London, WC2R 2LS
About Us
BMEIS is seeking a Junior Technician to support engineering workshops, teaching and research, primarily within Surgical Interventional Engineering (SIE), with support to wider School facilities as required.
Reporting to the Workshop Manager and School Senior Technical Manager, the role suits someone starting a technical career with an interest in hands-on workshop operations and support.
The post supports safe, efficient workshop and laboratory operations, including equipment and facility maintenance and practical support for staff and students. Working independently and as part of a team, the post holder will mainly support engineering workshops, assist other School labs/workshops when needed and work flexibly to support teaching and research including event support, inventory, equipment and facilities maintenance, and H&S policy/protocol implementation.
Typical Duties include:
• Supporting laboratory/workshop events, teaching and training.
• Maintaining equipment, facilities and general housekeeping.
• Monitoring equipment calibration and engineer visits.
• Supporting workshop manufacturing processes, including CNC machining, 3D printing, material testing, moulding and general workshop equipment.
• Ordering tools, stock materials and spare parts.
• Maintaining a safe, clean facility, including hazardous waste handling.
• Following and contributing to SOPs, risk assessments, local rules and other compliance documents.
• Ensuring users follow safety policies, guidance and regulations.
• Supervising students, training users and monitoring/reporting compliance.
• Ordering, handling, storing and disposing of substances and parts safely.
• Managing consumables, stock and PPE for events and course needs.
• Managing engineering lab coat inventory, laundering and resupply.
• Identifying and communicating additional equipment, instrument or staffing needs.
• Supporting departmental surgical simulation facilities.
About The Role
- Provide a range of services where there are established service standards.
- Use a broad range of technical or practical skills and a well-developed working knowledge of technical or scientific practices and procedures, applying knowledge in the context of new areas.
- Engage in Continuing Professional Development and training initiatives, in line with the Technician Commitment and Research Concordat for a minimum of 10 days pro rata per year.
- Oversee service facilities ensuring efficient use of resources, installing, maintaining, and securing technical equipment systems and software and controlling local budgets, stocks/store, equipment, and supplies, while adhering to King’s principles of ethics and sustainability.
- Oversee and allocate work to team members when deputising for line manager, supporting colleagues in meeting their objectives, providing advice and feedback as appropriate.
- Manage own workload within the parameters of an agreed work plan, responding to changing priorities and an evolving environment/context, maximising the efficiency of the technical support being provided and resolving problems as they arise, using standard procedures and initiative.
- Use well-developed analytical and problem-solving skills to identify trends and patterns, using appropriate techniques and procedures to inform decisions with an impact on the local service, with a potential impact for 6 months to a year.
- Resolve routine and complex problems that arise in the local service.
- Work with colleagues and network as agreed by the line manager(s).
- Actively engage in King’s Technical Network, building a network across the Faculty to provide peer support and opportunities to share best practice.
- Forge relationships with colleagues in the School, Faculty, university and external to the university, to build relationships, disseminate and get information, coordinate, and deliver the service.
- Provide advice and guidance and, where appropriate, training.
- Communicate information in a clear and precise way, both orally and in writing.
- Contribute to ideas for improving current working methods and procedures.
- Implement local environmentally sustainable practices, following the King’s sustainability audit process, where appropriate.
- Collaborate with colleagues to share good practice and support wider sustainable initiatives and suggest new ideas where you see that improvements could be made.
- Implement and monitor compliance with regulations governing the service, to ensure a safe and environmentally sustainable workplace.
- Report accidents/ incidents to line manager(s)/ supervisor.
- Facilitate an inclusive culture and ethos working with academic, research and other professional services staff and colleagues external to King’s.
- Participate in cross-School/ Faculty/ university projects and initiatives for up to 10% FTE.
The above list of responsibilities may not be exhaustive, and the post holder will be required to undertake such tasks and responsibilities as may reasonably be expected within the scope and grading of the post.
The post holder reports to the Workshop Manager and School Senior Technical Manager.
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