30th Oct 2025
We're hiring for a Workshop Technician role (one year cover)
Want to work at the Institute of Making? We’re on the lookout for a friendly and confident Workshop Technician with excellent technical, organisational and communication skills for a one-year cover position. Sound like you?
Note: We're currently looking for someone with a generalist skillset and a background in ceramics, as the chosen post-holder will manage our Stratford-based Ceramics Room: an area dedicated to a range of clay and glass-working processes.
About the job...
The new Workshop Technician will be hired on a fixed-term contract that will run until the end of December 2026. They will be part of a team of technicians who are responsible for the day-to-day supervision, administration and health and safety of our workshops. The post-holder will also be administratively responsible for the management of our ceramics areas on both of our locations.
The post-holder should have excellent people skills and be prepared to encourage and guide users with a wide range of competencies and maturity, from beginners to experts. They should be approachable, comfortable engaging with staff and students in discussion, prepared to work with sketches and preliminary drawings, able to advise users on modifications, alternatives, and further developments of their ideas, and support a wide range of making techniques.
The post-holder will also be required to organise and carry out regular inspections, undertake and record the maintenance of the equipment, and liaise with suppliers when repairs are required.
Job description & application portal
Ready to take the next step? Find more information, read the full job description and start your application here.
Note: We do not require you to upload any research papers when applying for this role. The prompt to upload research papers is an automatically-generated field in all UCL job application forms, but is not relevant for this position. Please leave this section blank.
For any questions, please contact: r.meunier@ucl.ac.uk
Deadline for applications: Thursday 13th November at 23:59.
Interview date for successful applicants: Monday 1st December
We are aiming for a January start date.