Senior Technical Officer (Electronics)

University of Hertfordshire - School of Physics, Engineering, and Computer Science

FTE: 1.0 FTE (working 37 hours per week)

Duration of Contract: Permanent

Salary: UH5 £28,778 pa with potential to progress to 32,080 pa by annual increments on achieving designated skills and experience.

Annual Leave: 25 days plus standard public holidays and an additional 4 days including the closure of our office between Christmas and New Year

Location: College Lane Campus, Hatfield.

Main duties and responsibilities

You will prepare materials and equipment for practical, commercial and short course classes as required in one or more areas of the School. This will mainly involve support for specialist techniques in the electronics area for both undergraduate and postgraduate students and occasional support in other areas within the School.

Under the direction of the Technical Team Leader, you will liaise with Estates and contractors regarding management and maintenance of the demonstration and experimental areas for undergraduate and post graduate students and ensuring that the work undertaken is in line with the School requirements.

You will demonstrate the safe use of testing kit, technical equipment, and specialist skills to all groups of staff and students. You will provide specialist and general assistance to students to enable them to carry out their work. You will assist in the preparation of the laboratories and workshops for Short Courses, and other activities, and provide technical support when needed.

The senior technical officer will assist when available, with consultancy work and research within the School. You will help with the continual development of new practical sessions for teaching and short courses.

You will be responsible for the ordering and maintenance of stock levels and minor equipment as required for practical sessions in consultation with the Program and Module Leaders and other academic staff.

Skill and experience required

You will have professional experience of managing and/or maintaining an efficient technical operation. You will have experience and knowledge of electronics platforms (such as Arduino, microcontrollers and FPGA) to include programming of these devices

Specialist skills required in some or all the following: electronic system building and testing, developing new products through concept to manufacture and maintaining test equipment related to the testing and analysis of systems.

Ideally you will have experience of working in Further or Higher Education and practical experience of working in a teaching laboratory and/or workshop environment.

Practical experience using, maintaining, and developing electronic/communications/digital systems equipment, instruments, and software packages is a desirable.

Qualifications required

You will be educated with A-levels or equivalent, or proven experience. Ideally you will hold a recognised qualification in an appropriate subject at degree or HNC/HND level or equivalent.

Please view the job description and person specification for a full list of the duties and essential criteria. Please attach a personal statement showing clearly how your skills and experience match the Person Specification.

Internal applicants – please ensure you apply via your employee self-service portal.

We regret that we are unable to offer UKVI sponsorship for this post; applicants will either hold UK Right to Work or demonstrate access to UK Right to Work before an offer is made.

Contact Details/Informal Enquiries: Wilfred Kinyera, Technical Team Leader w.kinyera@herts.ac.uk

Closing Date: 04 March 2026

Interview Date: To be confirmed