Technical Specialist - CNC Manufacturing Laboratory (FM12428)

Job title Technical Specialist - CNC Manufacturing Laboratory

Department Mechanical Engineering

Salary Starting from £30,505, rising to £36,924

Grade Grade 6

Contract Type Full Time, Open Ended

Placed on Wednesday 29 January 2025

Closing date Sunday 16 February 2025

Interview date To be confirmed

Reference FM12428

Applicant Visa Guidance Skilled Worker visa: guidance for applicants (bath.ac.uk)

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We're seeking a highly skilled, adaptable and self-motivated machinist to provide technical support to the Mechanical Services Main Workshop and CNC Manufacturing facility.

The post requires you to support our student automotive race teams including both mechanical and electric powered vehicles and our electric motorcycle team, providing both technical and manufacturing support. In addition, you may be called upon to provide instruction for safe operation of conventional lathes and milling machines in our student workshop.

You will also provide technical advice, instruction and support to academic and research staff and students in the Department of Mechanical Engineering.

Your responsibilities will also include:

Our ideal candidate will have:

Knowledge and experience of Computer Aided Design (CAD) programming would be an advantage but training will be available if necessary to develop these skills.

For an informal discussion about the role please contact:

What we can offer you:

We consider ourselves to be a university where difference is celebrated, respected and encouraged. We have an excellent international reputation with staff from over 60 different nations and have made a positive commitment towards gender equality and intersectionality receiving a Silver Athena SWAN award. We truly believe that diversity of experience, perspectives, and backgrounds will lead to a better environment for our employees and students, so we encourage applications from all genders, backgrounds, and communities, particularly from under-represented groups, and value the positive impact that will have on the university. We are committed to maintaining a safe and secure environment for our students, staff, and community by reinforcing our Safer Recruitment commitment.

We are very proud to be an autism friendly university and are an accredited Disability Confident Leader; committed to building disability confidence and supporting disabled staff.

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We are constantly seeking to reduce the unconscious bias that enters any assessment process, with the goal of creating an inclusive and equal assessment process. To support this, personal details such as your name, may be removed from application forms at the initial shortlisting stage.