Specialist Technician

The opportunity
London College of Fashion (LCF) is looking for a Specialist Technician Knit to join our technical team on a part time basis. This is a fantastic opportunity to contribute to the delivery of teaching and learning activities, and to ensure the seamless operation of college equipment and facilities.

Utilising your strong knitwear expertise, you will provide professional guidance and advice to students to facilitate development and to meet learning outcomes. This will involve providing formal or informal sessions to demonstrate key processes/techniques such as stoll, yarn, dubied, domestic and machine techniques, as well as knitted garment construction and pattern calculation.

In addition to your teaching responsibilities, you will also be responsible for overseeing the daily running of specific areas and facilities within the College. This will involve managing the use and booking of specialist facilities (i.e. darkrooms and studios within and without timetabled teaching sessions), working closely with the Technical Coordinator/Manager to ensure the safe use of equipment and facilities.

About you
You will need a relevant degree, an equivalent qualification, or substantial experience in knitwear for fashion, pairing this with knowledge and experience of stoll, dubied, domestic knitting machines, hand knitting, garment construction, fully fashioning and cut and sew.

You will also be proficient in the use of the Adobe Suite and will possess experience of CAD knitting, including the Stoll M1 / create plus program.

Strong communication, organisational and teamwork skills are essential, along with the ability to plan and deliver technical instructions to a diverse audience.

We are UAL
UAL offers an extensive range of courses in art, design, fashion, communication and performing arts. We are a collegiate University spread across London with six Colleges, four Institutes and five Research Centres. UAL also has two subsidiary companies, delivering specialist activities – UAL Short Courses Ltd, and UAL Arts Temps Ltd.

We're made up of all types of people, coming together in London, the world's creative capital. We are designers, artists, performers, thinkers, researchers and makers. Our students, staff and graduates form a global network of creatives, entrepreneurs and leaders. Together, our ideas change the world. Because the world needs creativity.

We are ranked highly across the board. We are ranked first for specialist art and design, second in the world for Art and Design in the 2023 QS World University Rankings (for the fifth year in a row), ranked fifth in sustainability and two of our colleges were rated in the top three fashion schools in the world.

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Closing date: 21st August 2024, 23:55.

If you have any queries about this role, please contact the recruiting manager Sophie Jelinek at

If you have any queries about the application process or need any reasonable adjustments for your application, please contact the Resourcing Team at

Our culture
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.

£38,359 to £47,109 per annum.