Digital Imaging Technician

Starting salary: £25,770

Contract type: Permanent

Grade: 1

Location: Seven Hills Business Park, Edinburgh, EH11 4EP

Working Hours: Monday - Friday, 35 hours per week

Interviews: To be held on Week Commencing 19 November 2025

As a Digital Imaging Technician, your role is to process customer orders and programmes of digitisation. You will work closely with the Digital Imaging Coordinators to ensure all digitisation is completed to prescribed NCAP standards.

Experienced in digitisation processes and system workflows, you will promote a culture of quality that ensures the creation of the highest quality archival-standard digital imagery.

Benefits of joining us at Historic Environment Scotland

• Enrolment onto a Civil Service Pension scheme – 28% employer contribution
• 25 days annual leave, pro-rata (increasing to 30 days after 3 years public holidays
• Reimbursement for relevant professional subscriptions
• Support for further education and personal development
• Study leave for work related courses
• Flexible working hours (where appropriate)
• Free entry to all of our properties (with up to three guests)
• Free entry to English Heritage, Manx and Cadw properties

Key Responsibilities of this role

• Create digital images by scanning original aerial imagery, and associated records, for customer orders and programmes of digitisation.
• Ensure the quality of digital images produced meet NCAP standards for the creation of digital surrogates.
• Undertake post-processing work including the creation of metadata to NCAP standards.
• Work to and meet production targets and deadlines.
• Maintain and update administrative records associated with the digitisation workflow, notably process tracking systems.
• Process original archival records to NCAP record-handling standards to minimise risk of damage to the unique historical records.
• Working within a team of other technician's assistants; positive collaboration and cooperation is essential.
• Frequently moving relatively heavy boxes of archival material is required, as is at times working in a climate-controlled/cold room.

Key requirements of the role:

In order for you to be successful in this post, we will be looking for you to complete a cover letter which addresses:

1. Why you are interested in the post with Historic Environment Scotland

2. How you can meet each of the essential and desirable criteria (in up to 800 words), using examples of where you have used these skills in the past.

Please ensure that you provide real life examples for each of the criteria to be considered for this post. You can use examples of how you have met this criteria from your work life, home life, education or volunteer experience.

Essential Criteria:

• Self-motivated approach to managing routine tasks.
• Knowledge or interest in analogue and/or digital photographic processes.
• Good organisational skills and the ability to manage own workload.
• Appreciation of the importance of targets and deadlines.
• Ability to demonstrate a practical approach to problem solving.
• Demonstrable experience working in a team environment.

We are dedicated to building a workforce which is reflective of diversity within Scotland. We warmly welcome applications from candidates of all backgrounds, regardless of age, race, gender or gender identity, religious beliefs, marital status, sexual orientation, disability, or neurodiversity. In support of our Gaelic Language Plan, we welcome applications from Gaelic speakers.

We want every candidate to have the best chance to succeed during the recruitment process. If you require your application in an alternative format, please reach out to us via email at or call our Head Office at and speak to a member of our People Team.

Please note that, at this time, we are unfortunately unable to provide sponsorship as part of the recruitment process, therefore you must have current right to work in the UK to be considered for a post.