Lead Technician
University of Birmingham School
Birmingham
- £28,554 - £31,972 per year
- Expired
- Salary:
- £28,554 – £31,972 FTE
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- April 2025
- Apply by:
- 17 March 2025
Job overview
Rethinking education, helping tomorrow’s citizens flourish.
We are looking to recruit a talented and appropriately qualified Lead Technician to take responsibility for the day-to-day running of the technical support to our teaching departments. Reporting to the Facilities Manager, this role is essential in ensuring that all technical aspects of the School’s operations run smoothly and effectively.
The Lead Technician will be responsible for the line management of the Technician team, planning the workload and ensuring the team is well resourced, organised and developed to meet the standards of the School. You will also provide excellent technical service across all areas of the School, with a specialism in either Design Technology or Science.
We will have high expectations of you to be an outstanding role model committed to the distinctive ethos of our School, where we strive for academic excellence underpinned by character education.
In return, we can offer you:
- A commitment to your continued professional development within school, using additional training days to enhance and develop your knowledge and skills.
- Three days per year dedicated to your own research.
- Involvement in our exciting timetabled enrichment programme.
- Access to world-class resources, research and people through our partnership with the University of Birmingham.
Visits to school are welcomed. To arrange, please contact Katie Tennant at recruitment@uobschool.org.uk or on 0121 796 5008.
For information about the School, please visit: https://uobschool.org.uk/.
For more details about the role and to apply, please click the apply button.
Please note that we cannot accept applications via CV.
Closing date: 9.00am on Monday 17th March 2025
We welcome applications from all sections of the community. The University of Birmingham School is committed to ensuring the highest levels of safeguarding children and promoting their welfare. This post is subject to an enhanced DBS disclosure, references, and online checks.
Together, we'll flourish
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About University of Birmingham School
- University of Birmingham School
- 12 Weoley Park Road, Selly Oak, Birmingham
- West Midlands
- B29 6QU
- United Kingdom
Rethinking education, helping tomorrow’s citizens flourish.
The University of Birmingham School is a school for our city. Our aim is simple: to transform the lives of our pupils by raising their aspirations and maximising their potential by accessing the widest possible range of educational opportunities. We want our graduates to go on to make a different to the lives of others as responsible citizens, loving partners and parents, excellent friends and great work colleagues.
In our new £23m building and drawing on the world-class facilities, resources and expertise of the University of Birmingham, we offer our pupils a broad and balanced academic curriculum, a focus on character education, and a wide programme of enrichment opportunities delivered through an extended school day.
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