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.