Technical Manager (Rapid Prototyping Innovation & Operations)

The role

The Design Factory will be a state-of-the-art rapid prototyping facility located in Bristol University’s brand new Temple Quarter Enterprise Campus! Serving research, student and commercial needs you will be responsible for the spaces in the facility and its staff to work on novel and innovative projects across a number disciplines and research areas.

What will you be doing?

You (with support form Line Manager) will set-up the Design Factory for opening and will then run the facility to provide excellent technical support to researchers, students and commercial customers. You will manage a novel technical and training facility to deliver outcomes to both students, researchers and others.

You should apply if

You will be motivated to use your existing technical and managerial expertise to:

Help others use specialist rapid and light fabrication equipment and facilities in both standard and innovative ways.

Train lay users in parallel to working with world experts to deliver exciting research and other technical projects

Set-up services and facilities from first principles so that work in practice!

Additional information

For informal queries please contact: Adrian Bot, Technical Manager (fse-technicalservices@bristol.ac.uk)

To find out more about what it's like to work in the Faculty of Engineering, and how the Faculty supports people to achieve their potential, please see our staff blog:

https://engineering.blogs.bristol.ac.uk/category/engineering-includes-me/

Contract type: Fixed term contract until 30/09/2028

This advert will close at 23:59 UK time on 27/05/2026

Interview dates will be confirmed in due course.

Our strategy and mission

We recently launched our strategy to 2030 tying together our mission, vision and values.

The University of Bristol aims to be a place where everyone feels able to be themselves and do their best in an inclusive working environment where all colleagues can thrive and reach their full potential. We want to attract, develop, and retain individuals with different experiences, backgrounds and perspectives – particularly people of colour, LGBT+ and disabled people - because diversity of people and ideas remains integral to our excellence as a global civic institution.

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