Specialist Technician (Learning & Teaching) Design & Prototyping

We have an opportunity to join our team of Specialist Technicians to help support students on relevant design courses across our CCW Camberwell and Chelsea sites. 

As a Specialist Technician (Learning & Teaching), you’ll directly enrich students’ learning by teaching key technical skills that inform the design process through formal sessions, troubleshooting issues in 1:1 tutorials, and providing constructive feedback helps students produce strong final outcomes. 

The Interior Futures Technical Team are a close group of designers, architects and makers with wide-ranging specialist skillsets and backgrounds. We work together to support each other and provide students with the tools to create and communicate a high standard of work that reflects the quality of a UAL education.  

As a member of a Studio Technical Team, you’ll work closely with Academic course teams to co-deliver to students within course spaces. Guided by course briefs and schedules, you’ll develop and tailor delivery sessions that help students use appropriate techniques, materials and processes in both digital and traditional prototyping and design communication to meet unit requirements.

Working primarily at Chelsea with occasional days at Camberwell, you’ll gain broad and varied experience of the teams and cultures within CCW. Whilst there will be a schedule arranged by the Studio Manager, there is autonomy within the role, allowing you to self-direct your time, plan learning support, and contribute to the smooth running of specialist spaces, including maintaining equipment, supporting safe working practices and ensuring they remain well organised.

Ultimately, the role enables you to work alongside fellow creatives in an environment where development of your own practice is encouraged and supported, allowing you to impart that knowledge and experience on students, directly influencing and enhancing their education and overall university experience.

About you

If you have a BA level or equivalent qualification in an area such as Product & Furniture Design or 3D Fabrication, you’d be perfect for the role. A PG Cert in Creative Education or relevant experience of working in a Higher Education institution would be a bonus. 

We need you to have strong technical knowledge of using CAD and 3D visualisation software such as Fusion 360, Rhino 3D & Keyshot, and to use these programmes alongside an applied understanding of design workflows to support students from concept through to prototyping and making. 

You’ll need solid practical fabrication skills, with good understanding of practices in traditional studio environments, including equipment use, material knowledge & helping maintain safe, well-run making spaces. Industry experience within a relevant product/furniture design company or workshop would be a plus. 

For further details and to apply please click the apply button. 

Closing date: 22 March 2026 23:55.

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