Interim Technical Coordinator - 3D Workshop

University of the Arts London, London College of Communication

Location: Elephant and Castle, London

Salary: £43,762 to £52,246 per annum.

Hours: Full Time

Contract Type: Fixed-Term/Contract

Placed On: 27th August 2025

Closes: 15th September 2025

Job Ref: 11946

The Role

We are delighted to offer an exciting opportunity for a highly skilled and motivated individual to join our growing Technical Services team as Interim Technical Coordinator for the 3D Workshops at London College of Communication.

Reporting to the Technical Manager for the Design School, the postholder will become part of the wider technical management group, leading a team of experienced technicians and coordinating the full range of 3D Workshop resources. This includes overseeing workshop spaces and online booking systems, ensuring safe and accessible facilities, managing local budgets, developing services, and delivering high-quality technical support to students.

The 3D Workshops support a broad spectrum of traditional and digital making, including woodworking, plastics, laser cutting, 3D printing, 3D scanning, and CNC machining.

Working closely with both technical and academic colleagues, the postholder will play a key role in providing outstanding facilities, delivering technical teaching, and continually enhancing the student experience within the 3D Workshops and across technical services more broadly.

LCC is also embarking on an exciting transformation project, developing a new building at Elephant & Castle. The successful candidate will have the unique opportunity to contribute to the design and delivery of brand-new, purpose-built facilities, shaping the future of communications education.

About You

You will bring expertise in one or more of the following areas: woodworking, model making, plastics, laser cutting, 3D printing, 3D scanning, or CNC machining. Alongside your technical skills, you will have hands-on experience of working in busy workshop environments.

The ideal candidate will also have experience in leading a team or managing projects, with a thorough understanding of Health & Safety regulations and best practice in workshop settings.

We are looking for someone who enjoys supporting and developing colleagues, teaching, and working with students. If you are motivated to contribute to an inclusive and dynamic technical team, we would be delighted to receive your application.

We are UAL

University of the Arts London (UAL) generates and inspires the creativity the world needs for a better future. Since 1842, our colleges have been defining creative education. With curiosity, imagination and intent we make work which creates lasting change for people and our planet. London is core to who we are, a place where we meet and share ideas with people from different backgrounds and cultures.

Our creative network influences learning, culture, industry and society on a global scale. Our academics and practitioners deliver creative education and inspire new ways of thinking through research and innovation. We work with students at every level from pre-degree and short courses to postgraduate and online learning, enabling them to build the careers they want. Together, we are a community of makers, thinkers, pioneers and storytellers redesigning the future.

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Closing date: 15 September 2025.

If you have any general enquiries, please contact Lesley Wilkins, Senior Resourcing Adviser - lcc.jobs@lcc.arts.ac.uk.

UAL is committed to creating diverse and inclusive environments for all staff and students to work and learn – a university where we can be ourselves and reach our full potential. We offer a range of family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements and Staff Support Networks. We welcome applicants from diverse backgrounds, including race, disability, age, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion and belief, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, and caring responsibility.