General Workshop & Laboratory Services - Grade 6
Example job roles: Workshop Technician, Research Technician, Store Assistant, Laboratory Technician, Junior AIT Engineer
Level: Developing/SkilledÌý
Experiences
Activities and responsibilities likely to be required when working at this level
Health & Safety responsibilities
- Complete routine equipment maintenance and repairs
- Liaise with suppliers and manufacturers to resolve simple problems
- Advise on equipment capabilities
- Working with the faculty manager, establish and maintain a safe/compliant working environment
- Assist/complete and update routine safety paperwork (dependant on the risk owner)
- Hold specific safety responsibilities
- Organise and complete compliance tasks (role/department dependent)
- Maintain up-to-date health and safety knowledge, providing support and advice to others
Core responsibilities
- Ensure effective delivery of objectives by planning and managing own workload
- Assist the academic lead/workshop manager with the day-to-day running and supervision of laboratory spaces
- Allocate work to one or more members of technical staff (this may be dependent on the area of work and/or the role)Ìý
- Work collaboratively to deliver objectivesÌý
- Contribute to progress and management meetings
- Assist with record keeping, inventory and asset managementÌý
- Manage a small budget, monitoring resource usage and maintaining supplies of key items (this may be dependent on the area of work and/or the role)
- Assist with stores operations including ordering, receiving, processing, and distributing goods
- Source and negotiate with suppliers for routine items
- Provide a high standard of research support, including contributing to reports and publications
- Provide a high standard of teaching support, including preparing for classes and field work
- Support taught course projects by contributing to experimental design and data acquisition
- Prepare and manufacture a range of simple specimens/samples
- Report infrastructure faults and support small-scale building works
- Manage equipment bookings, calculate charges/costs using a pre-existing framework or costing scheme and assist with re-charging (in some areas, this may involve TRAC costing)
- Update and deliver local inductions
- Provide training and demonstrations of techniques and equipment
- Share skills and best practice
- Prepare standard operating procedures and work instructions for methods and/or equipmentÌý
Personal and professional development
Development options to consider when working towards this level
Learning on the job
- Specialise in specific areas of responsibilities e.g. to be a point of contact for specific instruments and tools
- ÌýBroaden knowledge of different materials, machinery and processes
- Coordinate access to resources and facilities for stakeholders
- Develop the ability to use personal initiative to work proactivelyÌý
- Gain additional experience and be able to provide evidence of completed projects
- Develop people skills to interact with staff, students, academics.
- Complete the manufacturing of parts that require a specialist apprenticeship to achieve the tolerances required (post- successful apprenticeship)
Learning from othersÌýÌý
- Increase knowledge to aid troubleshooting processes e.g., include sample preparation and analysis of data; common CAD software issues
- Work shadow other colleagues to learn how to carry out risk assessments
- Join a Community of Practice
- Access mentoring support from a colleague or local mentoring scheme
Formal learning
- °×С½ãÂÛ̳ RiskNet training
- Fire Warden training
- Relevant training through Higher Education and Technician Educational Development (HEaTED)
Transferable skills and competencies
°×С½ãÂÛ̳ uses the Universal Competency Framework (UCF) to discuss transferable skills. Find out moreÌýdetails on the framework.
Applying expertise and technology
- Applying technical expertise
- Building technical expertise
- Sharing expertise
- Using technology resources
- Demonstrating physical and manual skills
- Demonstrating cross-functional awareness
- Demonstrating spatial awareness
Writing and reporting
- Writing correctly
- Writing clearly and fluently
- Writing in an expressive and engaging style
- Targeting communication
Developing results and setting customer expectations
- Focusing on customer needs and satisfaction
- Setting high standards for quality
- Monitoring and maintaining quality
- Working systematically
- Managing quality processes
- Maintaining productivity levels
- Driving projects to success
°×С½ãÂÛ̳ Ways of Working
These describe expected behaviours in line with °×С½ãÂÛ̳ culture and values.Ìý For Ways of Working indicators and steps to development please refer to theÌýWays of Working website.Ìý
4 January 2024
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