Engineering Trainer/Coach - Welding/Fabrication

Job description:

We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced Welding/Fabricator Engineering trainer/coach to be part of the Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre Training Centre Team.

You will join the delivery team and will be responsible for the workshop-based skills training and workplace coaching during the first year Foundation Phase of the Engineering Levels 3 through to 6 of the Apprenticeship programme.

This role will be based at the AMRC Training Centre. This would be in the engineering skills workshop and visits to local employer’s premises.

The University of Sheffield is a remarkable place to work. Our people are at the heart of everything we do. Their diverse backgrounds, abilities and beliefs make Sheffield a world-class university.

We offer a fantastic range of benefits including a highly competitive annual leave entitlement (with the ability to purchase more), a generous pensions scheme, flexible working opportunities, a commitment to your development and wellbeing, a wide range of retail discounts, and much more.

Find out more at www.sheffield.ac.uk/benefits and join us to become part of something special.

You will

• Be Qualified to Level 3 in engineering (BTEC/NVQ/C&G/HNC) and/or relevant experience.
• Possess significant experience of technical work in a Welding/Fabrication engineering setting
• hold a teaching qualification or willingness to undertake such a qualification on start
• have effective verbal and written communication skills, both written and verbal, report writing skills, experience of delivering presentations, communicating to staff and stakeholders at all levels
• have the ability to assess and organise resources and plan and progress work activities
• As an Engineering trainer/coach you will be required to carry out the training, assessment and coaching of engineering apprentices within the AMRC Training Centre and onsite at employer’s premises as well as deliver short CPD courses as required. Engineering trainers/coaches are expected to support enrichment activities and any Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths events to promote the AMRC Training Centre. Some of these will be out of normal working hours.

We build teams of people from different heritages and lifestyles from across the world, whose talent and contributions complement each other to greatest effect. We believe diversity in all its forms delivers greater impact through research, teaching and student experience.

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