Technician (Polymer Engineering)

We're committed to providing a wide range of benefits including:

• minimum of 41 days annual leave and the option to purchase additional annual leave
• employer pension contributions of 17.6%
• access to our benefits platform Vivup which includes huge range of discounts across the UK’s major retailers, health care discounts and Cycle to Work (click here for more info)
• access to our Employee Assistance Programme
• option to opt into our private healthcare

This role is an excellent opportunity for development with access to both internal and external training programmes.

The Role

You’ll have the opportunity to support a wide range of research projects and gain valuable experience in our Polymer Engineering, Materials and Nano Materials laboratories.

Primarily working in our Polymer Engineering laboratory, you will be responsible for the general upkeep of the laboratory and its equipment and its day to day running including monitoring, identifying and resolving Health and Safety issues.

The laboratory has both lab and industrial scale equipment, and involves processing all aspects of polymer materials, including extrusion, injection moulding, compression moulding, and vacuum forming. You will also carry out the blending and recycling of polymer materials using machinery such as the Brabender mixer, 2 roll milling and twin-screw extruder.

You will have exposure to mechanical testing and materials analysis in our materials testing laboratory.

As someone with excellent communication skills, you will work closely with our students and staff to provide specialist knowledge and support. You’ll help our staff deliver excellent teaching sessions as well as support our research students in their laboratory projects by providing advice and technical support, discuss data analysis and results, and develop appropriate future testing and analysis.

This is an excellent opportunity to define your own area within a laboratory.

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What we will need from you

• Practical and theoretical knowledge with experience of relevant technical testing equipment relating to polymer materials
• Extensive practical experience of working with relevant equipment
• Familiarity with relevant health and safety procedures and COSHH procedures
• Ability to adapt and expand knowledge as required to facilitate School requirements
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written to provide customer-focused solutions to both students and staff
• Excellent organisation skills with the ability to prioritise workload and use initiative

About the School

Based in the lively and exciting Merchiston area at the heart of Edinburgh, Scotland’s inspiring capital, the School of Computing, Engineering & the Built Environment (SCEBE) is embarking on a major development in the area of Industry 4.0, bringing together computer science, engineering, mathematics, and construction technology. The School has one of the UK's largest computer science departments and it houses leading UK research centres in transport policy and sustainable construction. We have excellent computing, engineering, and construction lab facilities.

According to the Research Excellence Framework in 2021, we are the number one Scottish Modern University for research in Computer Science & Informatics, Engineering and for Architecture, Built Environment and Planning as well as being the number one university in Edinburgh for overall student satisfaction - for the fourth year in a row!

Essential to delivering an excellent teaching and student experience are our technicians. They provide practical support and expert knowledge in our workshops, laboratories, and infrastructure to support with our academic and research activities within the School.

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