Teaching Technician

About the role

Develop your technical career as part of our Physics Technician Team as the department continues to evolve and grow. You will be working in a highly engaging environment as part of a collaborative team and will be supported with training and development to enable you to succeed in the role.

You will be providing technical support, advice and guidance in the undergraduate teaching laboratory, with a primary focus on undergraduate year one and year two Physics lab classes, as well as assisting with some outreach activities within the laboratory. Alongside setting up and dismantling student experiments and projects, you will also be engaging with students to support them to achieve their learning objectives and good H&S practice.

You will be working as part of our technical team that supports undergraduate and post graduate teaching across our teaching lab spaces and research across multiple building facilities. In this collaborative environment you will be organising daily experiments as well as assisting with planning for future semesters with the academic staff. An important part of your role will be ensuring good stock, equipment checks and audits, as well as carrying out and maintaining records of annual portable appliance testing (PAT) in research areas and offices.

About you

With a scientific background you will likely have a degree in Physics, but this isn’t essential. What is fundamental is a combination of a practical mind-set, a passion for supporting students and being highly organised. If you have experience in supporting or delivering teaching or training, or of demonstrating experiments in a higher education setting this would be ideal. We’ll also be looking for:

• An ability to organise and prioritise workload to meet required deadlines.
• Effective communication skills, with the ability to engage and build relationships with a broad range of audience.
• How you demonstrate collaboration with both your close team and other colleagues
• Experience in health and safety compliance, including writing risk assessments and COSHH, would be an advantage.

Further information

This role is offered on a full time basis (36.5 hours per week) with an expected start date of June 2026.

For an informal conversation about the role please contact the Technical Supervisor, Jenny Williams (j.williams@bath.ac.uk) or the Technical Director, Daniel Lou-Hing (delh20@bath.ac.uk).

We consider ourselves to be a university where difference is celebrated, respected and encouraged. We have an excellent international reputation with staff from over 60 different nations and have made a positive commitment towards gender equity and intersectionality receiving a Silver Athena SWAN award. We truly believe that diversity of experience, perspectives, and backgrounds will lead to a better environment for our employees and students and encourage applications from all genders, backgrounds, and communities, particularly from under-represented groups, and value the positive impact that will have on the university. We are committed to maintaining a safe and secure environment for our students, staff, and community by reinforcing our Safer Recruitment commitment.

We're very proud to be a signatory of the Armed Forces Covenant. an accredited Disability Confident Leader; autism friendly university, committed to building disability confidence and supporting disabled staff. 

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