Workshop Assistant

4 weeks ago


South Kensington, United Kingdom Imperial College London Full time

The Dyson School of Design Engineering is the 10th and newest engineering department at Imperial College London. The School brings together traditional engineering disciplines with areas such as behavioural science, design thinking, ethics, and business model innovation, to foster creativity and rigour in a single engineering discipline. The School is unique in its delivery of joint degrees with the Royal College of Art.

We are hiring a Workshop Assistant to support our Technical Team and a multi-disciplined ACE Prototyping and Manufacturing Workshop with activities for teaching, research, and any other activities associated with design engineering. This is a trainee position at entry level to a technical career with opportunities for further development. The Workshop Assistant will be working closely with and under the instruction and supervision of a Senior Technician.

**Duties and responsibilities**:
They will also perform routine housekeeping tasks, ensuring that the workshop facilities are well maintained and tidy.

The Workshop Assistant will be part of an experienced Team and will be required to communicate effectively with students and staff members, including following and giving instructions.

Please refer to the Job Description for a full list of responsibilities, and for essential and desired requirements.

**Essential requirements**:
**Education**
- Educated to at least BTEC HNC or equivalent, with completion of a recognised engineering apprenticeship-training scheme.

**Skills & Abilities**
- Ability to communicate with workshop users of all abilities
- Innovative, pro-active and highly motivated
- The ability to work effectively within a team
- Good attention to detail
- Good practical skills
- Collaborative and able to build and sustain working relationships
- Able to take direction and perform effectively under pressure with good personal organisation and time management
- Problem solving skills
- Willingness to undertake training necessary for the role and to collaborate with colleagues to improve skill base and adapt to changing circumstances
- Willingness to work flexible hours during term time. Time is compensated by additional Time Off In Lieu during vacations
- Acceptance of importance not to take holidays or other non-essential time off from work during times of scheduled teaching activities

**Further information**:
**Applications Closing Date**: 4 weeks

**Interview date**:
**Interview format**: in person

**Documents**:

- Job Description Workshop Assistant.pdf


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