Senior Technician

Carshalton, Surrey
Carshalton College

As a Senior Technician within our Construction, Engineering and Gas Assessment Centre, you will have the overall responsibility for the Curriculum Workshop areas which include Electrical Installation, Motor Vehicle/Cycle, Construction and Gas. You will supervise and lead a team of Technicians and Workshop Assistants to provide learners with relevant support to achieve their qualification. You will maintain a safe and efficient working environment that is conducive to effective learning.

As our Senior Technician, you will have a relevant academic or vocational qualification at Level 2 as a minimum and be able to develop a customer focused service. With excellent communication skills and the ability to meet deadlines in a pressured environment, you will have experience of setting priorities and determining courses of actions for others whilst monitoring and evaluating progress and performance.

We’re looking for someone who has experience of making effective decisions and of managing and embedding systems, procedures and process compliance. You’ll have the ability to recruit, select and retain staff, whilst carrying out timely and effective appraisals. We also ask that you are able to write and review suitable and sufficient risk assessments and can demonstrate compliance, effectively auditing the management of Health & Safety and Safeguarding.

Closing date for the return of completed applications is 30th June 2023

South Thames Colleges Group is an equal opportunities employer and is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults.

The benefits package includes generous annual leave of 26 days plus up to 7 additional days over Christmas/New Year as well as an additional 5 days Wellbeing leave to enhance employees’ physical and mental health. There is an excellent pension scheme that receives a significant financial contribution from the employer (Teachers Pensions or Local Government Pension Scheme), subsidised sports facilities and professional development and training plus a salary sacrifice cycle to work scheme.

The South Thames Colleges Group is made up of Carshalton College, Kingston College, Merton College and South Thames College, which merged on 1 August 2017. South Thames Colleges Group is one of London’s largest providers of post-16 education and training and is an ongoing and significant contributor to its local communities. We aim to put students’ success at the heart of everything we do.

We are looking for hard-working and collaborative people who can join our team and help challenge our students to progress and achieve.

When you click on ‘Apply’, you will be forwarded to the application page which sits on a platform hosted by an external partner called Blue Octopus who support STCG throughout the recruitment process.