Technical Specialist (Manufacturing Workshop)

University of Bath - Mechanical Engineering

Location: Bath

Salary: £31,236 to £37,694 Grade 6, per annum

Hours: Full Time

Contract Type: Permanent

Placed On: 11th September 2025

Closes: 28th September 2025

About The Role

You will be working as part of a multi skilled technical team, providing services to both the teaching and research teams within the engineering faculty.

Duties for this role, include but are not limited to:

• Provide the staff and students of the engineering faculty with skilled and technical support for the design and manufacture of unique devices.
• The repair, modification and construction of new and existing equipment. With the manufacturing of new components.
• Collaborate with academic and research staff and students, providing support and guidance regarding design and manufacturing.
• Supervision of undergraduate students in a workshop environment, this includes the basic use of hand and machine tools.

Services provided by the team include the use of conventional and CNC machine tools, with fitting and assembly skills to produce customised equipment.

The manufacturing workshop is equipped with modern conventional lathes, milling machines in addition to operator programmable CNC milling machines and lathes along with a wide range of other machine tools, sheet metal working equipment and a separate welding shop.

The department has a further dedicated CNC manufacturing and research laboratory equipped with industrial scale CNC multi-axis machining centres.

About You

• Served a recognised engineering apprenticeship in a toolroom, workshop, manufacturing or laboratory environment
• Demonstrable ability to examine, understand and assess relevant engineering information, concepts and ideas and to suggest solutions to problems
• A track record of contributing to the design, development, and implementation of solutions
• Demonstrate ability to effectively apply relevant codes of conduct and practice
• Relevant qualifications at GCSE level, City & Guilds or equivalent experience working in a relevant field

As this is a student-facing role, the post-holder will be communicating with a diverse student population, for which training and development opportunities will be provided, as required. The team are responsible for ensuring a safe working environment for students and colleagues.

We consider ourselves to be a university where difference is celebrated, respected and encouraged. We have an excellent international reputation with staff from over 60 different nations and have made a positive commitment towards gender equality and intersectionality receiving a Silver Athena SWAN award. We truly believe that diversity of experience, perspectives, and backgrounds will lead to a better environment for our employees and students and encourage applications from all genders, backgrounds, and communities, particularly from under-represented groups, and value the positive impact that will have on the university. We are committed to maintaining a safe and secure environment for our students, staff, and community by reinforcing our Safer Recruitment commitment.

We're very proud to be a signatory of the Armed Forces Covenant. an accredited Disability Confident Leader; autism friendly university, committed to building disability confidence and supporting disabled staff.

Further Information

This role is offered on a full time (36.5 hours per week) permanent basis.

For an informal discussion about the role, please contact Julian Sulley (Director of Technical Services) on js806@bath.ac.uk or Dave Wood (Technical Manager) on ensdnw@bath.ac.uk or Guy Brace (Technical Supervisor) on ensgwb@bath.ac.uk

What we can offer you

We're continually expanding our benefits package to better support you and enhance your experience with us & the below is just an example of some of the many great benefits we offer:

• Free counselling services through Health Assured
• Cycle to work scheme
• Electric vehicle salary sacrifice scheme
• Staff discount at Team Bath gym