We have an excellent opportunity to join our thriving Engineering and Motor Vehicle department as a Mechanical Engineering Skills Instructor.
As Skills Instructor you will deliver innovative and informative workshop training sessions and assist the management team in providing high learning value, financially efficient programmes to students studying Mechanical Engineering.
We welcome applicants that are new to teaching and want to utilise their industry skills and expertise to inspire the next generation of engineers.
Responsibilities include:
1. To deliver workshop training sessions on courses specified by the management team
2. To assist the management team in delivering high learning value, financially efficient programmes (including physical resource management) and to lead on innovation and efficiency in the delivery of learning
3. To be responsible for student’s academic progress, wellbeing, behaviour management and careers and pastoral guidance throughout their learning journey
4. To seek out and respond to the student voice – seeing students as primary stakeholders in their learning
5. To help students develop modern, safe working practices and behaviours – in both technical (vocational skills) and employability skills.
6. To participate actively in the enrolment, monitoring, profiling and assessment of students
7. To proactively develop and promote close links with employer/industry partners
8. To create enriching, effective and inspirational programmes of learning that expose our students to real-life work experiences – including on and off campus
9. To treat students as individuals and develop personalised learning plans that drive their progress in learning within workshop sessions, scaffold them to meet and exceed their targets and enable them to reach their career goals