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Senior Technician - Design and Build/Instrumentation and Control

University of Sheffield - School of Chemical, Material and Biological Engineering

Location: Sheffield
Salary: £32,080 to £39,906
Hours: Full Time
Contract Type: Permanent
Placed On: 24th November 2025
Closes: 8th December 2025
Job Ref: 1928

Job description:

Working Pattern: 100%

Faculty: Faculty of Engineering

We have an exciting opportunity in the School of Chemical and Biological Engineering for a Senior Technician to support our Electrical and Electronics Operations. We’re looking for a motivated technician to deliver outstanding technical support to staff, students, and external clients. You’ll be at the heart of our research and teaching, ensuring every project runs smoothly.

We’re looking for a skilled and motivated professional to provide expert advice, guidance, and hands-on support across a wide range of technical projects that drive our research and teaching forward. Based in our school laboratories and workshops, you’ll use your experience in specialist electronics, IT, and control systems to design, install, and refine custom rigs, instruments, and machinery. Collaborating across our electronics, electrical, and mechanical workshop teams, you’ll play a key role in developing innovative solutions to complex research challenges

The successful candidate will have experience of design and delivery of custom technical solutions around instrument interfacing, programming and design and build of custom electronics solutions in support of research and teaching. They will have experience of managing technical projects, staff and resources in a complex and demanding environment and will have a Technical Professional Registration or the willingness to work towards it.

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 Benefits of working here | Jobs | The University of Sheffield and join us to become part of something special.
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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