CSEC Facilities Superintendent

University of Edinburgh

UE07 £36,333 – £43,155 Per Annum

College of Science and Engineering / School of Physics & Astronomy, James Clerk Maxwell Building, King’s Buildings, Edinburgh

Open Ended (Permanent)

Full time, 35 hours per week

The School of Physics & Astronomy is seeking to recruit an enthusiastic and experienced Facilities Superintendent for the Centre for Science at Extreme Conditions (CSEC).

The Opportunity:

This role offers a unique opportunity to apply and develop your technical, building, Health & Safety and project management skills in an exciting and world leading collaborative research centre.

As the principal member of the CSEC support staff, you will act as building manager for the Erskine Williamson Building; liaising closely with Estates Department, and a number of external maintenance and service contractors. You will manage and develop the physical resources and provide skilled, flexible and professional technical support and advice to staff, students and visitors. Additionally you will fulfil the roles of Safety Adviser and Radiation Protection Supervisor for the centre, and have responsibility for building security and access control.

As a minimum, you will be educated to HNC/HND level in a physical science or engineering discipline and have significant vocational experience in the safe operation and management of scientific laboratories and the instrumentation and equipment therein. The role additionally requires considerable proven knowledge and experience in building/facilities management, plus the ability to manage, lead and develop staff.

The School of Physics & Astronomy aims to ensure equality of opportunity and holds an Athena SWAN Silver award. We welcome applications from everyone irrespective of gender or ethnic group. Appointment will be based on merit alone.

Your skills and attributes for success:

• Well organised with excellent planning skills
• Self-motivated
• Excellent and well proven inter-personal/communication skills
• A high degree of technical expertise
• Relevant experience in a similar role

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As a valued member of our team you can expect:

An exciting, positive, creative, challenging and rewarding place to work. We give you support, nurture your talent and reward success. You will benefit from a competitive reward package and a wide range of staff benefits, which includes a generous holiday entitlement, a defined benefits pension scheme, staff discounts, family friendly initiatives, flexible working and much more. Access our staff benefits page for further information and use our reward calculator to find out the total value of pay and benefits provided.

The University of Edinburgh holds a Silver Athena SWAN award in recognition of our commitment to advance gender equality in higher education. We are members of the Race Equality Charter and we are also Stonewall Scotland Diversity Champions, actively promoting LGBT equality.

Interviews are likely to be held during the first week of July 2023.

If invited for interview you will be required to evidence your right to work in the UK. Further information is available on our right to work webpages.

The University is unable to sponsor the employment of international workers in this role. International applicants will therefore be unable to apply for and secure a Skilled Worker visa. They will only be able to take up this role if they can demonstrate an alternative right to work in the UK.

ABOUT US

As a world-leading research-intensive University, we are here to address tomorrow’s greatest challenges. Between now and 2030 we will do that with a values-led approach to teaching, research and innovation, and through the strength of our relationships, both locally and globally.

ABOUT THE TEAM

The School of Physics and Astronomy is in the College of Science and Engineering and comprises the Institute for Particle and Nuclear Physics (IPNP), the Institute for Condensed Matter and Complex Systems (ICMCS) and the Institute for Astronomy (IfA). We have around 100 academic staff, over 120 research staff and around 65 professional services staff.

The School of Physics and Astronomy was ranked 4th in the UK and 1st in Scotland in the Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2021 listing for the quality, scale and breadth of its research by Times Higher Education. Consistently ranked within the top 20 physics departments worldwide, these results confirm the exceptional performance of our staff, our excellent facilities, and our world-leading research.

The School runs undergraduate programmes at BSc and MPhys level in Physics, Mathematical Physics, Theoretical Physics, Computational Physics, Astrophysics and (jointly with the School of Chemistry) Chemical Physics. The undergraduate programme has flexible entry and exit points, creating courses of variable duration and level. The School accepts around 230 new undergraduates into its programmes each year and has current student populations of over 800 undergraduates, 50 taught postgraduates and 220 research postgraduates.

We aim to ensure that our culture and systems support flexible and family-friendly working and recognise and value diversity across all our staff and students. The School has an active programme offering support and professional development for all staff; providing mentoring, training, and networking opportunities.

The School of Physics and Astronomy holds Athena SWAN Silver and IoP Juno Champion awards, in recognition of our commitment to advance gender equality.