Design Technology Technician
The Royal School, Wolverhampton, Wolverhampton, West Midlands, WV3 0EG8 days remaining to apply
Job start date
1 September 2025
Closing date
3 March 2025 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
6 February 2025
Job details
Job role
- Other support roles
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time: 37.5 hours, Monday to Friday, term time only
Contract type
- Permanent
Hourly rate
- £12.59 per hour
What skills and experience we're looking for
The Royal School are looking to employ an enthusiastic, highly motivated and approachable person to maintain highquality technician services to the Design & Technology and Art Departments.
Although experience within this role would be an advantage, the school is committed to training and developing the skillsof the new post holder so that they may excel within the role regardless of subject specific qualifications and experience.
Enthusiasm and a willingness to learn new skills is a key factor for any applicant.
The Role:
Design Technology and Art are popular subjects with The Royal School with high numbers of students opting to take thesubjects at GCSE and A Level. This fantastic opportunity will allow the post holder to develop new skills and certificationrelated to the role.
As post holder you will have the opportunity to:
·Attain relevant Health and Safety certification related to a range of workshop machinery and processes.
·Develop Computer Aided Design skills in various software including 2D Design, Google SketchUp, Blender and CAMsoftware.
·Develop Computer Aided Manufacture skills in relation to laser cutting and 3D printing.
·Attain up to date knowledge on relevant COSHH information and risk assessments.
·Develop your own areas of interest related to the subject to inspire our students.
What the school offers its staff
·A supportive team and committed students.
·A fully equipped, multi-purpose workshop allowing for the delivery of a range of resistant materials projects.
·A classroom to support the delivery of design work and theory.
·A CAD room as well as a set of laptops.
·A materials preparation room.
·Expansion and refurbishment of existing facilities within the next two years
Commitment to safeguarding
Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment.
Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance.
Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant):
childcare disqualification
Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)
medical
online and social media
prohibition from teaching
right to work
satisfactory references
suitability to work with children
You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.
Applying for the job
Apply for the job by following the link below.
CVs are not accepted.
About The Royal School, Wolverhampton
- School type
- Free School, ages 4 to 19
- Education phase
- Through
- School size
- 1493 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 4 to 19
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- lcallaway@theroyal.school
Thank you for your interest in the post here at The Royal School,
Wolverhampton (RSW). To help you decide on whether this is the school
for you it is important to understand where we have come from and where
we are going.
The school is built upon a combination of things; it’s unique heritage,
record of academic excellence, outstanding educational environment, and the full support and endorsement of our Patron, the Earl of Wessex.
From this, the Governors and leadership team are committed to supporting wider access for pupils, of all abilities and backgrounds, to add to The Royal’s rich and diverse educational offer.
The Royal School, Wolverhampton offers a unique proposition to families
in Wolverhampton and its surrounding area of an ‘all-through’, 4-19, coeducational, nondenominational day and state boarding school, with the capacity over time to provide for 1500 pupils, through a carefully managed programme of growth.
Whilst remaining fully non-selective and dedicated to supporting pupils in
need, this change process has enabled RSW to combine its traditional
values and academic offer with a global perspective. All this is to benefit
our pupils, and to create a dynamic outward looking, culturally diverse, yet inclusive school community. Within this, pupils acquire the rich subject knowledge, life skills, understanding and aspiration to succeed locally, nationally, and internationally.
We welcome your application to be part of our community and would love
you to visit and see the school in action or call us to talk things through.
Arranging a visit to The Royal School, Wolverhampton
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email lcallaway@theroyal.school.
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