Lead Technician
The University of Birmingham School, Birmingham, B29 6QU17 days remaining to apply
Closing date
17 March 2025 at 9am
Date listed
26 February 2025
Job details
Job role
- Other support roles
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £28,554.00 - £31,972.00 Annually (FTE)
Lead Technician job summary
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 workload and ensuring the team is well resourced, organised and developed to meet the standards of the School. They 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
- 3 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 the school are welcome. To arrange, please telephone Katie Tennant on 0121 796 5008.
Commitment to safeguarding
The University of Birmingham School is committed to ensuring the highest levels of safeguarding and promoting their welfare, and we expect all our staff and volunteers to share in this commitment. These posts are subject to an enhanced DBS disclosure, references, and online checks.
Please note we do not accept applications via CV.
Applying for the job
This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.
CVs are not accepted.
About The University of Birmingham School
- School type
- Free School, ages 11 to 19
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1175 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 19
- Ofsted report
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Mainstream school with state - free school funding
Secondary with sixth form
Students of mixed gender, age 11 - 18 years
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 £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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