DT Technician

Mangotsfield School, Bristol, BS16 9LH

6 days remaining to apply

• Job start date

  1 September 2026

• Closing date

  14 July 2026 at 9am

• Date listed

  8 July 2026

Job details

• Job role:
  • Other support roles
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Subject: Design and technology
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: CSET 11 £25,584 FTE, £19,329 prorated

DT Technician job summary

Job title: DT Technician 

Salary: CSET 11 £25,584 FTE, £19,329 prorated

Hours: 32.5 per week

Working weeks: 39 weeks per year, term time + INSET 

Contract type: Permanent 

Location: Mangotsfield School

About the Role

We are seeking a proactive and skilled Design & Technology Technician to join our busy, dynamic department. In this vital role, you will ensure the smooth, safe, and efficient day-to-day running of our workshops, directly supporting teaching and learning.

From preparing materials for a diverse curriculum to maintaining high-spec machinery, your technical expertise will help students bring their designs to life.

Key Responsibilities:

• Prepare materials, tools, and equipment for practical lessons. You will assist teachers and students during practical activities, demonstrations, and help manufacture teaching aids or prototypes.
• Maintain total compliance with workshop Health & Safety regulations (including COSHH, risk assessments, and machine safety). You will conduct routine safety checks, manage the safe storage of materials/chemicals, and ensure all equipment is in safe working order.
• Maintain accurate records of equipment servicing and inventory. You will manage stock levels, order consumables, and keep workshops, preparation areas, and storage facilities organised and tidy.

About You

You are a highly organised technical professional with a passion for making, fixing, and creating. Whether your background is in education, engineering, or trade workshops, you bring a positive, adaptable attitude and a strict commitment to safety and the safeguarding of young people.

Your Skills & Experience:

• Machinery & Tool Expertise: Competent in the safe use and maintenance of metalworking machinery and timber/woodworking equipment, alongside standard hand tools.
• Material Processes: Experienced working with a range of plastics and polymers and possessing a strong overall understanding of wood, metal, and plastic manufacturing techniques.
• Digital Manufacturing: Proficient in operating and maintaining 3D printers and laser cutters, including machine setup, troubleshooting, calibration, and utilising CAD/CAM systems.
• Technical Interpretation: Ability to manufacture prototypes, models, and project components directly from technical drawings and design specifications.
• Personal Attributes: Strong communication and interpersonal skills, the ability to work independently to manage competing priorities, and a proactive approach to supporting a busy school environment.

About us

Mangotsfield School has been recognised by Ofsted as a “rapidly improving, community focused, ambitious school.” In our last inspection we were awarded Good in all categories, a testament to the vision and dedication of the leadership and teaching body.

Mangotsfield School has a strong ethos built on our four values. In all aspects of school life we encourage students to love learning, embrace challenge, give and earn respect and grow our community. Our classrooms, our corridors and our systems are built on these values: this supports our culture where we can meet individual needs and close the gaps for our students. 

Mangotsfield School is a local secondary school firmly rooted in, and proudly working within, the community which it serves. The school is situated in pleasant semi-rural surroundings on the north-eastern outskirts of Bristol. Mangotsfield School benefits from being part of a wider trust and partners with Downend School to deliver 16-19 opportunities for all students.  

We can offer you:

• Happy, engaging students who thrive on inspirational leadership
• A supportive trust and school community
• Strong collaboration across the trust family of schools and access to a centralised team of specialists across all areas of school operations
• A commitment to high‑quality CPD, with dedicated time and budget for your development
• A values‑driven ethos where diversity, equity and inclusion are lived every day
• Recognition of continuous service (modification order) to protect employment rights and entitlements
• Local Authority Pension Scheme with generous employer contributions and death‑in‑service cover
• Occupational sick pay to support you during illness or unexpected emergencies

To register your interest in joining CSET please complete an application form detailing what skills you have that are relevant to this role before 9.00 am on 14th July. Interviews are due to take place on the 16th July. Please let us know if you require any adjustments as part of the process.  

Please know that depending on the number of applications received we may decide to close the advert early. If you do not hear from us by a week after the closing date then please assume that you have not been shortlisted for an interview. We wish you all the best in your future and ask that you join our E-Teach Talent Pool so as to keep up to date with all of our latest current opportunities. 

Further information about the job

The candidate will be required to undergo a full enhanced DBS check and must be eligible to work in the UK.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

If you're interested in teaching or training to teach in England as an international citizen, we can help you understand your next steps.

Commitment to safeguarding

Mangotsfield School and Castle School Education Trust (CSET) are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. We expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Successful candidates are subject to an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check.

Applying for the job

This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.

CVs will not be accepted for this application.

About Mangotsfield School

• Organisation type: Academy, ages 11 to 16
• Education phase: Secondary school
• Size: 1191 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 16
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• Website: Mangotsfield School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/mangotsfield-school-bristol

Everything at Mangotsfield School is based around its school
values driven by Headteacher, Hetty Blackmore. Having first
joined the school as a newly qualified teacher when she was
23 years old and returned to lead it later in her career, she is
very proud of the journey the school is on.

Mangotsfield School is proud to serve its community and has
been part of the local community since 1957. They have just
celebrated being rated as a ‘Good’ school by Ofsted (visit
March 2022).

There are wonderful resources and facilities on site, allowing
students to embrace curricular and extra-curricular
challenges from DT, art, dance, drama and a climbing wall to
name a few. There is a lot of open space, which is green and
calm. And this sense of calm is echoed in the school itself.
The school has a proud sporting history and teams have
travelled as far as Wembley to take part in national
competitions. The school is also on a mission to broaden
horizons with many co-curricular trips taking place, such as a
Year 7 trip to Slimbridge Wetlands for art research and a
Year 8 trip to Tyntesfield House to explore gothic horror
within the English curriculum.

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