Senior Technician – Research

The College      

At Durham College we’re pleased with our folks.  A globally excellent centre of instructional excellence, a collegiate group of extraordinary folks, a novel and historic setting – Durham is a college like no different.    

Throughout the College we’ve got an enormous number of roles and profession alternatives, which collectively make us a big and profitable group, which is a key hub of exercise inside our area and nationally.  Whether or not you might be on the very begin, center or finish of your profession, there’s a position for you. We imagine everybody has their very own distinctive abilities to supply.    

We’d be thrilled for those who would take into account becoming a member of our thriving College.  Additional details about the College might be discovered right here .

The Function and the Division   

The submit holder can be liable for helping with the day-to-day technical capabilities and operations within the Physics Division, offering technical and engineering associated help all through a big, busy and numerous choice of analysis laboratories, thereby guaranteeing clean and environment friendly operation all through the world.

The submit holder can be required to train an acquired depth of information and expertise to supply versatile, specialist technical assist as a part of a technical workforce supporting all analysis and remaining yr undergraduate actions carried out throughout the Division of Physics. Primarily servicing the wants of analysis, whereas supporting different areas of the Division as and when required, offering all stakeholders with an knowledgeable stage of technical service and steerage.

Our Division of Physics is a thriving centre for analysis and training. Ranked 2nd within the UK by The Guardian College Information 2023 and within the World High 100 within the QS World College Rankings by Topic 2023, we’re proud to ship a educating and studying expertise for college kids which carefully aligns with the research-intensive values and practices of the College. Feeling impressed? Go to our Physics webpages to study extra about our postgraduate and undergraduate programmes. Durham College is a prime 100 world college. Within the QS World College Rankings 2024, we had been ranked 78th globally.

Working at Durham     

A aggressive wage is just one a part of the numerous incredible advantages you’ll obtain for those who be part of the College: additionally, you will obtain entry to the next incredible advantages:         

• 27 Days annual depart per yr along with 8 public holidays and 4 customary days per yr – a complete of 39 days per yr.  The College closes between Christmas and New 12 months.
• Irrespective of the way you journey to work, we’ve got you coated.  We’ve parking throughout campus, a cycle to work scheme which lets you purchase a motorcycle and low cost with native bus and prepare corporations.   
• Plenty of assist for well being and wellbeing together with discounted membership for our state-of-the-art sport and gymnasium amenities and entry to a 24-7 Worker Help Programme.   
• On website nursery is on the market and entry to vacation camps for kids aged 5-16 all year long.
• Household pleasant insurance policies, together with maternity and adoption depart, that are among the many most beneficiant within the greater training sector (and certain above and past many employers).   
• There’s a real dedication to creating our colleagues professionally and personally.  There’s a complete vary of growth programs, apprenticeships and entry to {qualifications} and routes to develop your profession within the College.  All workers have devoted annual time to focus on their private growth alternatives.    
• The chance to participate in workers volunteering actions to make a distinction in the area people.   
• Reductions can be found through our advantages portal together with; cash off at supermarkets, excessive avenue retailers, IT merchandise comparable to Apple, the cinema and days out at numerous points of interest.    
• We provide beneficiant pension schemes.       

Durham College is dedicated to equality, range and inclusion

Our collective goal is to create an open and inclusive setting the place everybody can attain their full potential and we imagine our workers ought to replicate the variety of the worldwide group wherein we work.       

As a College equality, range, and inclusion (EDI) are a key a part of the College’s Technique and a central a part of every thing we do.  We additionally reside by our values and our Workers Code of Conduct.  At Durham we actively work in the direction of offering an setting the place our workers and college students can examine, work and reside in a group which is supportive and inclusive. It’s necessary to us that each one of our colleagues are aligned to each our values and dedication to EDI.      

We welcome and encourage purposes from members of teams who’re under-represented in our work drive together with folks with disabilities, ladies and black, Asian and minority ethnic communities.  In case you have taken day trip of your profession, and you’re feeling it related, tell us about it in your utility.  If you’re a candidate with a incapacity, we’re dedicated to making sure honest remedy all through the recruitment course of. We are going to make changes to assist the interview course of wherever it’s affordable to take action and, the place profitable, affordable changes can be made to assist folks inside their position.    

What it is advisable display while you apply/Particular person Specification  
  
If you apply it can be crucial that you simply tell us what abilities/expertise you have got from an identical position and/or what abilities/expertise you have got which might make you proper for this position. Additional details about the position and tasks is on the finish of this job description.  The place a standards has an asterisk* subsequent to it, it might be given extra weighting when your utility is taken into account.    
  
Your utility ought to cowl the next standards:

 Important Standards:  

1.     Good oral and written communication abilities.  

2.     Sturdy digital competence with demonstrable abilities in utilizing core digital instruments together with web, electronic mail, digital communication instruments, Microsoft 365 purposes, and many others.  

3.     5 GCSE’s not less than Grade C or stage 4 (or equal) together with English Language and Arithmetic (or equal expertise).   

4.     Certified to Strange Nationwide Certificates stage (or equal qualification / expertise) in both a science topic, mechanical or electrical and digital engineering.

5.     Expertise of working in a workforce.

6.     Potential to resolve issues and resolve points, plan options and make pragmatic choices.

7.     Demonstrable skill to supply recommendation and steerage to a spread of shoppers and colleagues.

8.     Skilled data and experience in a number of space of technical specialism, and the applying of abilities to create, construct, assemble and realise new and revolutionary assets, gear and analysis outputs.

9.     Expertise of working inside a laboratory setting with a great understanding of the operation and use of normal laboratory gear comparable to oscilloscopes, energy provides, multi-meters, operate mills and many others.

10.  Demonstrable skill to ship excessive precision technical abilities and the operation of ordinary and sophisticated scientific, technical and inventive gear.

  Fascinating Standards:

11.  Certified to Greater Nationwide Certificates stage (or equal qualification / expertise) in both a science topic, mechanical or electrical and digital engineering.  

12.  Proof of constant skilled growth.

13.  Potential to successfully community and change recommendation and data for growth functions.    

14.  In depth expertise of relationship constructing and skill to show alternatives into long-term data change and collaboration.

15.  In depth data and expertise of monitoring actions of self and others to make sure well being and security laws are adhered to.

Tips on how to apply      

To progress to the evaluation stage, candidates should proof every of the important standards required for the position within the particular person specification above.  The place there are fascinating standards we might additionally urge you to supply any related proof.  Please don’t neglect to verify if there’s any weighted standards (see above).      

Whereas some standards can be thought-about on the shortlisting stage, different standards could also be thought-about later within the evaluation course of, comparable to questions at interview.        

Submitting your utility       

We choose to obtain purposes on-line.  We are going to replace you about your utility at numerous factors throughout the course of, through automated emails from our e-recruitment system. Please verify your spam/junk folder periodically to make sure you obtain all emails.        

What you might be required to submit:

Contact Particulars

If you need to have a chat or ask any questions in regards to the position then the next workers from the Physics Division can be pleased to talk with you:

Technical Providers & Amenities Supervisor:

Wayne Dobby – Tel: 01913343679 – Electronic mail: [email protected]

Instructing & Analysis Technical Providers Supervisor:

David Pattinson – Tel: 01913342227 – Electronic mail: [email protected]

Typical Function Necessities 

Service Supply

• Plan and organise personal workload with or with out involvement with undertaking work streams.
• Specialist assist with drawback fixing and question dealing with.
• Reactive and proactive service provision with others to ship a superb stakeholder expertise.
• Liable for organising and sustaining technical and experimental amenities and the each day operations inside analysis environments, guaranteeing a protected working setting the place laws and finest apply is noticed.
• Supporting and helping with the availability of well being and security while adhering to set tips, together with preparation of security paperwork regarding actions within the laboratories e.g. COSHH, laser security and Danger Evaluation varieties.
• Interpret, curate, design and current artefacts, data, information, gear and assets.
• Implement and monitor protocols, procedures, processes and laws.
• Monitor and report incidents.
• Take accountability for day-to-day resolution making inside personal space of accountability for operational facets of service supply, translating exterior necessities into sensible utility and recommendation.
• Develop, assemble, take a look at, restore and calibrate mechanical, electrical and digital gear, parts and instrumentation utilizing specialised methods.
• Set-up, display, instruct and supervise the use, operation and upkeep of complicated and complex analysis equipment, gear and devices together with, however not restricted to excessive voltage gear, excessive vacuum programs, cryogenic, electrical and digital gear, lasers and x-ray mills, numerous microscopy gear e.g. scanning, transmission and targeted ion-beam microscopes, superconducting magnet programs, closed cycle refrigeration gear.
• Implement and monitor recognised procedures to make sure compliance and meet College values of inclusion, range and participation.
• Accountable for managing/sustaining monetary and price range data and reconciling consumable expenditure queries.
• Concerned within the buy and return of products and companies.
• Perform a spread of actions that features the commissioning, building and set-up of take a look at and experimental situations and sensible periods.
• Full Transportable Equipment Testing of all laboratory home equipment.
• Organising and dismantling of apparatus and assets for numerous outreach actions and summer season faculties in addition to offering technical assist in the course of the exercise.
• Ship initiatives that display a excessive commonplace of accuracy, complexity, originality and excellence.
• Skilled consumer with a spread of equipment and gear both bodily, digital or digital.
• Take accountability for finishing up extra specialist threat assessments and incident decision.

Analysis, Instructing and Studying Help

• Present high-level technical, service, steerage and recommendation to undergraduate, postgraduate and educational stakeholders to assist educating, analysis and studying actions inside all Physics analysis laboratories.
• Advising, helping and finishing up numerous technical duties for Degree 4 undergraduates in addition to different college students working within the analysis laboratories enterprise analysis initiatives.
• Document, monitor and collate data, analyse patterns and tendencies as a part of educating and analysis actions.
• Present technical steerage and recommendation to resolve issues and assist form the supply of educating, studying and analysis outcomes.
• Help to college students within the design (i.e. the strategies and planning) of analysis experiments and within the specific purposes of equipment used.
• Perform extra in-depth investigations, searches and analysis data and information to determine tendencies and patterns.

Teamwork

• Skilled service practitioner, planning and co-ordinating of initiatives and work streams with inter-related actions.
• Have interaction with exterior friends and specialists to change data and data.
• Supervises service customers and stakeholders enterprise actions, occasions, undertaking work and exhibitions.
• Liaise and community with specialist professionals to change data and concepts internally and externally to the organisation.
• Ship coaching and oversee specialist duties and methods involved with the position being undertaken by key stakeholders and different technical workers members the place needed.
• Contribute to enterprise conferences, working teams and committees to assist form service supply and stakeholder expectations.
• Another affordable duties.

Please notice that in submitting your utility Durham College can be processing your information. We’d ask you to think about the related College Privateness Assertion Privateness Notices – Durham College which offers data on the collation, storing and use of information.    

When appointing to this position the College should be sure that it meets any relevant immigration necessities, together with wage thresholds that are relevant to some visas.