School Technical Manager

Are you an enthusiastic, and highly organised senior technical professional with substantial team leadership and student-facing experience? Do you excel at developing others, building high performing teams, and fostering collaboration within fast paced, research-intensive laboratory and teaching environments? Do you have a passion for driving excellence in student education? Are you ready to lead and shape the technical operations that support our research and teaching laboratories within our state-of-the-art Food Science and Nutrition facilities?

As School Technical Manager, you will play a pivotal role in managing and developing technical services across the School of Food Science and Nutrition. Our school's technical team underpin our world-class research and teaching activities. This is an exciting opportunity to influence the strategic direction of technical operations to ensure we continue to deliver the very highest standards in safety, compliance, and technical service delivery.

You will lead a diverse team of technical professionals in both research and teaching, supporting their development and ensuring that resources are deployed effectively to meet the evolving needs of the school. You will oversee your team's management of scientific equipment, from sourcing and procurement (including large capital instrumentation) to asset inventory. As compliance and health and safety lead, you will effectively manage activity in these areas, ensuring all standards are adhered to. You will also develop smart contingency plans to keep operations running smoothly, and build strong, collaborative relationships with academic teams, faculty-aligned professional services, external partners, and service providers. You will use specialist knowledge of the research area and associated instrumentation to advise on the development of research and equipment grant applications.

We are looking for a proactive and experienced technical manager who thrives in complex environments and is committed to continuous improvement. Your ability to lead change, manage budgets, and deliver high-quality technical management will be key to your success in this role.

equipment and safety systems management.

You will be the technical lead for human studies across the school, providing support in protocol setup and induction to working within the human study areas, along with management of facilities and primary contact for storage, carriage and shipment of biological substances both internal and external to the University. You will design and support protocols carrying out biological and molecular biology analyses of different biological samples.

Please note that this post may be suitable for sponsorship under the Skilled Worker visa route but first-time applicants might need to qualify for salary concessions. For more information please visit: www.gov.uk/skilled-worker-visa.

What we offer in return

• 26 days holiday plus approx.16 Bank Holidays/days that the University is closed by custom (including Christmas) – That’s 42 days a year!
• Generous pension scheme plus life assurance – The University contributes 14.5% of salary.
• Health and Wellbeing: Discounted staff membership options at The Edge, our state-of-the-art Campus gym, with a pool, sauna, climbing wall, cycle circuit, and sports halls.
• Personal Development: Access to courses run by our Organisational Development & Professional Learning team.
• Access to on-site childcare, shopping discounts and travel schemes are also available.

And much more!

To explore the post further or for any queries you may have, please contact:

Emma Black, Faculty Technical Services Manager
Email: e.v.i.black@leeds.ac.uk