Marine Instrumentation Technician

The School of Biological and Marine Sciences intends to appoint a senior technician to support Marine Instrumentation on the Plymouth Campus.  This role presents an exciting opportunity for an experienced and enthusiastic individual with proven expertise to join a key growth area in the school supporting research, teaching and industry engagement.

This is a unique opportunity to join the School of Biological and Marine Sciences’ technical team, providing technical support to staff and students in subject areas including Marine Physics, Coastal Processes and Marine Biology.  It will include the development, maintenance, and deployment of a wide range of specialist marine science instrumentation to further our outstanding student experience and world-class research.

Our teaching and research at this level often calls for bespoke solutions, novel design of new systems and implementation of current resources.  You will be supporting all of this in a role that offers continuous variability and exciting opportunity, from project inception through fieldwork deployment and subsequent data delivery.  Time will be spent in the lab, workshops, in the field and afloat (small inflatables to large offshore research ships), supporting research and teaching.

The School’s marine field equipment inventory has a value in excess of £2.5m and is used widely to support teaching and research activity.  This includes survey (RTK GNSS, terrestrial laser, video systems, Unmanned Aircraft, Uncrewed Surface Vessels, multibeam and single beam bathy), oceanographic sensors (moorings, drifting buoys, profiling and single point current meters, CTDs, optical, turbulence, acoustic, wave buoys), towed and vessel mounted solutions, shallow water and deep-sea remotely operated vehicles (ROVs) and towed camera systems.

You will be proactive in your approach to improving and developing yourself and the service you provide, showing personal initiative and good judgement when faced with complex problems.

Health and Safety is considered of the utmost importance and you will be expected to contribute to the management of risk through CoSHH and Risk Assessments and by monitoring activities.  In addition, both in-house and external training will be provided to ensure competence.

A current full driving licence (manual transmission) is essential as you will be driving University of Plymouth vehicles. This role is also subject to health surveillance with our Occupational Health team.

Please demonstrate how you meet the essential criteria outlined in the knowledge, qualifications, training and experience elements of the job description in your supporting statement.

For an informal discussion to find out more about the role then please contact Peter Ganderton by email at peter.ganderton@plymouth.ac.uk.

Closing Date: 12 Midnight, Monday 10^th April 2023

Interviews are likely to take place week commencing Monday 24^th April 2023 and you will be notified if you have been shortlisted or not.

This is a full-time position working 37 hours per week on a fixed-term basis for a period of 5 years due to funding.

Flexible working options including job share will be considered.

We offer a competitive salary package and a generous pension and holiday scheme. We also offer a range of other benefits, including ongoing development opportunities.

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