Assistant Technician

£28,704 - £28,704

Job Description

  • To provide a comprehensive technical support service for PII 2nd/3rd floor Borough wing (Primary location) and across the School, to support the daily operations associated with the School?s Research activities, working closely with the School Leadership Team and the School Technical Manager.
  • To provide the operation and basic maintenance of autoclaves, glass washing machines and drying ovens for the School (Guy?s campus primarily/ for PII 2nd/3rd floor Borough wing) ensuring continuous service
  • Performing weekly validation of School Autoclaves, using spore testing
  • Training new starters on the operation of the Autoclaves
  • Maintenance of autoclave room consumable stocks
  • Sterilisation of laboratory waste and research consumables
  • Washing scientific glassware, ensuring high standards of cleanliness
  • Removal of clinical waste from all laboratory areas Borough Wing (2nd/3rd Floor) on a twice weekly basis or as necessary
  • Maintenance and replacement of shared laboratory glassware stocks.
  • Lab coat laundry management
  • Regularly updating Local technical team and STM (School Technical Manager) regarding the performance and mechanical failure of the equipment
  • Assessing and ordering shared lab consumables such as sharps containers, yellow clinical waste bags, autoclavable waste bags, red tags, dish washer reagents, IMS/Ethanol supplies, printer paper, blue roll etc.
  • Deliveries for for PII 2nd/3rd floor Borough wing Lab and providing cover for the School (Guy?s campus primarily).
  • To support the School Technical Manager, School Manager and Head of School in providing operational leadership for Technical staff within the School.
  • To support the School Technical Manager in coordinating the School?s compliance with all regulations and guidelines for Health and Safety, ensuring that all relevant safety related Posts are filled.
  • To support the wider School Leadership Team in fostering a stimulating, innovative and inclusive cultural environment across the School enabling students and staff to thrive and develop, ensuring that technical staff experiences are actively considered and represented in the ongoing development and implementation of the diversity and inclusion agenda.
  • To forge relationships with colleagues in the School, Faculty, and University, to contribute to process development and adoption of best practice.

 

The above list of responsibilities may not be exhaustive, and the post holder will be required to undertake such tasks and responsibilities as may reasonably be expected within the scope and grading of the post. 



Qualifications

Minimum level 3 qualification, e.g. A levels, AS levels, International Baccalaureate diploma or other Level 3 qualification, plus work experience in a relevant technical/scientific post(s) OR Knowledge and skills gained through work experience in relevant technical or scientific posts.



Skills
  1. Evidence of an active commitment to skills and knowledge development through vocational training and on-the-job experience.
  2. Competent basic computer skills including Microsoft Office packages.
  3. Knowledge of a range of technical or practical skills and procedures and their impact on the environment.
  4. Ability to apply learnt techniques to the work context.
  5. Clear spoken and written communication skills, along with strong interpersonal and influencing/behavioral skills.
  6. Flexible team-worker who is responsive to colleagues.
  7. An understanding of Health & Safety regulations governing area of work, particularly relating to laboratory waste disposal and recycling.
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Qualifications

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Skills

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THE TEAM ARE HIRING ONE FULL-TIME AND ONE PART-TIME (15 HOURS) POSITION. 

PLEASE SPECIFY WHICH YOU ARE INTERESTED IN IN YOUR APPLICATION. 

 

 

 

School/Department: Schoolof The Built Environment and Architecture

 

Job Title/Grade: Apprenticeship Skills Reviewers (Civil and Building Services) ? Grade 6

 

Reporting to: Apprenticeship Team Leader

Purpose of the post

The School of The Built Environment and Architecture (BEA) offers some of London?sbest

courses in areas such as architecture, building services engineering, civil engineering, construction management, quantitysurveying and buildingsurveying. All our courses are closely linked with industry and accredited by the relevant professional institutions to the highest possible level.

 

Our apprenticeship offer is rapidlyexpanding and we are seeking passionate and driven Skills Reviewers who are committed to working with our academics and industry partners to develop the best Higher and Degree Apprenticeships in the sector. This particular post will sit within the division of Civil and Building Services.

 

The postholder will provide guidance and support to apprentices to work towards developing the knowledge, skills and behaviours they will need to successfully complete their apprenticeship, and will liaise with employers to ensure the apprentice?s learning needs are being met in the workplace.Progress review meetingswith each apprentice and their employer will be undertaken at least three times a year for the duration of their programme, either in person at the apprentice?s workplace, or remotely via MS Teams.

 

The successful candidate will be an excellent communicator and developing good relationships with internal and external stakeholders. Industry experience would be an advantage. They will be comfortable working independently and will have excellent organisational and time management skills.

 

Please note we are willing to consider applications for part-time hours.

 

MAIN ACTIVITIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

 

  1. Work alongside both the Apprenticeship Team and School academics to provide proactive and reactivevocational and educational support to apprentices and their line managers throughout the apprenticeship scheme.

 

  1. Monitor apprentice progression against knowledge, skills and behaviour standards (as well as functional skills where appropriate) and provide feedbackto both the apprentice and their line manager.

 

  1. Undertake regular progress review meetings with apprentices and mentors as required. These meetingswill either take place at the apprentice?s workplace; the University; or via MS Teams.

 

  1. Support the apprentice to prepare for theirend-point assessment.


 

  1. Work with employersand academic colleagues to support the agreement of on and off the job development plans with the apprentices and monitor and record progress to ensure that both the university and employer remain compliant.

 

  1. Work with the Apprenticeship Team and Teaching, Quality and Enhancement to ensure all qualityassurance requirements relevantto the educational support of an apprentice are being met.

 

  1. Ensure that all learning activity is recorded and auditable in line with funding regulations and that any university delivery, process and monitoring systemsare adhered to within the agreed time limits.

 

  1. Contribute to the development of appropriate programme systems and processes.

 

  1. Complete any requiredlearning and development activities required to enhance your knowledge and perform the role more effectively.

 

  1. Ensure that procedures for access to, and retention of, information withinthe School comply with the requirements of the University and the General Data Protection Regulation.

 

The Apprenticeship Team Leader / Dean may requestadditional duties that are withinthe scope, spirit and purpose of the role. Within reason, the duties and role of the post holder may be changed, after appropriate consultation, in response to changing organisational requirements.



Qualifications

N/A 



Skills

SELECTION CRITERIA

 

E = Essential, D = Desirable

 

  1. A relevantconstruction qualification (D). Industry experience or professional qualifications relating to the apprenticeship discipline (D).

 

  1. An understanding of the end-to-end learning journey of an apprentice (D)

 

  1. Experience of delivering work based learningand assessment in commercial or educational contexts which are relevant to the subject area (D).

 

  1. Excellent communication skills and the ability to build customer/ client relationships and maintain empathy with stakeholders (E).

 

  1. Experience of working autonomously and managing own workload efficiently and effectively (E).

 

  1. Ability to work as part of a wider team (E).

 

  1. Excellent time management and organisational skills (E).

 

  1. Experience or knowledge of  e -learning platforms and an excellent knowledgeof Microsoft Office packages, including the ability to produce reports (E).


 

  1. Ability to demonstrate an understanding of, and commitment to, equality and diversity, and its practical application (E).

 

The successful candidatewill be required to undergoan Enhanced DBS check.

  • assisting in conducting research activities related to computer vision, including literature reviews, data collection, experimentation, and analysis
  • assisting in the development and implementation of computer vision algorithms, including image processing, object detection, recognition, segmentation, and tracking
  • preparing and annotating datasets for training and evaluation purposes, ensuring data quality and relevance to research objectives
contributing to the solution in a form of software tools and frameworks for computer vision research, using programming languages such as Python or C/C++
  • assisting in the analysis of qualitative and quantitative data, as directed.


Qualifications

N/a



Skills
  • Some prior experience and strong interest in the subject of Computer Vision
  • Understanding of deep learning frameworks (e.g., TensorFlow Keras, PyTorch) and some proficiency in training convolutional neural networks (CNNs) for computer vision tasks.
  • Familiarity in training deep learning models using preprocessed and augmented datasets, monitoring model performance and convergence during training.
  • Practical knowledge in utilizing programming languages relevant to machine learning, deep learning and computer vision (Python 3.4 and above is an absolute must).
  • Experience working with video / image data, including data preprocessing, annotation and analysis using popular libraries (e.g. OpenCV)
Knowledge of common evaluation metrics for assessing model performance in computer vision tasks, such as accuracy, precision, recall, and F1 score.
  •  Knowledge in web frameworks written in Python (e.g. Flask) is desirable but not essential
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