Technical Specialist (AMES)

Job reference: SAE-029465
Salary: £37,694 - £46,049 per annum depending on relevant experience
Faculty/Organisational Unit: Science and Engineering
Location: Oxford Road
Employment type: Permanent
Division/Team: FSE Technical Services
Hours Per Week: 35
Closing date (DD/MM/YYYY): 17/03/2026
Contract Duration: Permanent
School/Directorate: Faculty Office - Science and Engineering

We are seeking an enthusiastic and proactive Technical Specialist to join our dynamic technical operations team, which strives to provide a sector leading technical support for FSE and the wider University. With a commitment to customer service excellence and a passion for science and engineering, Technical Specialist will provide an agile technical support service to staff and students to support teaching, research and professional services. FSE’s research and teaching quality is recognised globally; this is an exciting opportunity to join us in Manchester and contribute to the provision of a sector leading technical service.

The Photon Science Institute (PSI) is a multi-disciplinary research centre in which physicists, chemists, engineers and material scientists use light to enable science as well as developing new ways of generating, manipulating and detecting it. The PSI is housed in a state-of-the-art, purpose-built facility and benefits from a comprehensive suite of laser sources covering a wide range of wavelengths, energies and pulse durations, providing comprehensive photonic imaging and characterisation. The PSI also houses significant advanced materials modification and analysis tools alongside device fabrication and measurement capability.

The development of ion-beam tools for materials doping, modification and analysis has enabled advances in technology that range from microelectronics through to the study of biological systems. In particular, focused ion beam (FIB) tools for materials modification have provided a key tool for enabling the development of nanotechnologies through the ability to create nanostructured materials and devices. Most recently the demands associated with realising single-ion dopants in materials (e.g. silicon or diamond) for use as quantum bits (qubits) has led to the development of a new generation of FIB tools. The most advanced of these has recently been commissioned at the University of Manchester (UoM), integrating state-of-the-art FIB and electron beam technologies to provide the ‘Platform for Nanoscale Advanced Materials Engineering’ (P-NAME), and subsequently Advanced Materials Enrichment & Synthesis (AMES) tool. It is established within the Photon Science Institute (PSI) at the UoM following significant investment by the EPSRC, Henry Royce Institute and the UoM itself.

Enquiries about the vacancy, shortlisting and interviews:

Name: Prof Richard Curry (Vice-Dean for Research and Innovation) OR Maddison Coke (Senior Technical Specialist (PNAME) Henry Royce & Photon Science Institutes)

Email: Richard.curry@manchester.ac.uk or maddison.coke@manches-ter.ac.uk

General enquiries:

Email: recruitmentservices.people@manchester.ac.uk

Technical support: jobseekersupport.jobtrain.co.uk/support/home

This vacancy will close for applications at midnight on the closing date.

Further particulars including job description and person specification are available on the University of Manchester website - click on the 'Apply' button above to find out more

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