Senior Technician - Concrete and Civil Engineering
This is a full time, permanent position with a starting salary of £39,407 per annum. Interviews are expected to be held the week commencing 13th October 2025. For informal enquiries, please contact Lesley Stigling, Faculty Operations Manager.
The Role
As a Senior Technician – Concrete and Civil Engineering, you will play a pivotal role in supporting practical lab sessions, research projects, and consultancy activities. This hands-on role requires an expert in managing state-of-the-art lab facilities and delivering technical excellence to ensure the smooth operation of all laboratory activities.
Your contribution will be critical in:
* Supporting Learning and Teaching: Overseeing multiple student groups and sessions simultaneously, particularly during peak periods, to ensure all participants are adequately supervised and supported.
* Ensuring Safety and Compliance: Upholding rigorous safety standards, maintaining equipment in optimal condition, and ensuring PPE compliance to safeguard all users.
* Managing Equipment and Resources: Performing regular maintenance, calibration, and troubleshooting of sophisticated lab equipment to prevent downtime and interruptions.
* Enabling Research Excellence: Assisting with experiment setups, managing data acquisition systems, and providing expert technical guidance to support high-quality research outputs.
* Driving Innovation: Introducing innovative techniques and methodologies to improve lab practices, enhancing the educational and research experience for students and staff alike.
* Forklift driving experience preferable.
The Person
The successful candidate will have good interpersonal and communication skills (oral and written) and good organisational skills with the ability to plan and prioritise workload. You will be able to work as an individual or as a team member and have the ability to make and maintain accurate records. You will also possess a reasonable level of IT skills and have good analytical and problem solving skills.
The Faculty
There are few faculties across the UK university landscape as varied in their scope. We teach and research across a wide range of subjects, allowing for real cross-discipline innovation and creativity. Our lecturers are experts – working at the forefront of their fields and actively engaged in research so they can bring advanced knowledge to their teaching. Our state-of-the-art facilities include specialist laboratories, a public outreach centre, a specialist virtual reality centre, a rocket lab, and flight simulators. For future scientists and engineers, this combines to create the ultimate real-life space for practical learning. For academic professionals, this all adds up to a truly vibrant, exciting environment in one of the largest and most diverse STEM faculties in the sector.
Why Join Us?
We offer a range of benefits, including:
* 35 days annual leave
* Employee Assistance Programme helps with any work-related problems having a wider impact on your life and gives you access to the savings centre
* Discounts on Perks a Work
* Course fee waiver scheme and discounted courses across the University
* Learn new skills with priority access to thousands of courses via LinkedIn Learning
* Season ticket loans up to £10,000 to help you spread the cost of commuting and get the best value for money
Kingston University values a place-based ethos and a commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion. Staff are expected to be on campus for the majority of their working week to support a collaborative, innovative and inclusive community.
Kingston University values
As an employee of Kingston University you are expected to work to our values framework. Our values underpin everything that we do, they shape how we interact with each other; how we support our students; and how we achieve our strategic objectives.
Inclusive: to value the diversity of students and staff, treating them respectfully.
Innovative: to apply new methods or ideas to facilitate progress.
Ambitious: to pursue excellence for oneself, the university and our communities.
Enterprising: to recognise and act on opportunities.
Our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
Bring your true self, expertise, and passion to Kingston where we are continuing to strive to build a university where authentic inclusion and belonging is at its heart. We welcome applications from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic backgrounds, LGBTQ+ communities and those with disabilities. Candidates must be able to demonstrate their eligibility to work in the UK in accordance with the Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Act 2006. Where required, this may include entry clearance or continued leave to remain under the Points Based Immigration Scheme.
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