Automotive Technician- Fixed Term Until 10 July 2025
Job Reference: AT/09.2024
Salary: This is a full-time role with a salary of up to £20,105.80 per annum.
Working Hours: 33 hours per week over 4 days, working one in four Fridays, 52 weeks per year.
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an Automotive Technician to join our Automotive department.
The purpose of the role is to provide technical support services in the automotive workshop and to support the academic staff in the preparation of classroom activities.
Minimum Requirements
* Appropriate qualification relating to the automotive industry
* GCSEs (grade A-C) or equivalent in English and Maths
* The ability to work on automotive vehicles
* IT skills including Microsoft Office (Word/Excel/Outlook/Teams)
* Basic knowledge of Health and Safety and Control of Substances Hazardous to Health (COSHH)
* Excellent interpersonal / communication skills and good attention to detail and keep accurate records.
* Team player with a methodical and flexible approach to work
* The ability to multi-task and work well under pressure
* Ability and willingness to undertake staff development
Main Duties
* Preparing materials, apparatus and equipment for student practical work, training and lectures in workshops and classrooms. Please note this will involve lifting and handling.
* Assisting academic staff in accomplishing learning objectives.
* Maintaining accurate records and levels of tools, materials and consumables, ordering replenishment stock as necessary.
* Coordinating curriculum area administrative paperwork.
* Organising and ensuring effective operation and security of classrooms and workshop area, with particular regard to hazardous and/or inflammable material and their safe storage.
* Preparing risk assessments and COSHH paperwork annually and monitoring and updating risk assessments for the areas of responsibility.
* Ensuring all areas are clean, tidy and safe to ensure adequate care of health and safety and take immediate action (e.g. disconnection of power supply) if there is a reason to suppose a safety hazard exists and report the hazard immediately.
* Carrying out checks to ensure equipment is maintained in accordance with Health & Safety requirements and be responsible for reviewing and updating departmental risk assessments.
* To train and be a practising first aider within the department.
* Working flexibly and to a standard acceptable to the College. You will be expected to follow a work schedule that will outline your duties on a day-to-day, week by week basis.
This role requires you to engage in regulatory activity in the FE sector. The full definition of regulatory activity is set out in the Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006 as amended by the Protection of Freedoms Act 2012. Regulated activity includes teaching, instructing, caring for or supervising children if the person is unsupervised.
Additional Information
Fancy a 4-day working week?
Grantham College operates a 4-day working week. Staff benefit from a reduction in working hours with full pay. You will work core hours (based on a full-time equivalent contract) of Monday to Thursday, working a Friday morning once a month.
Grantham College experiences positive benefits from the 4-day week, including improvement to staff wellbeing and morale. We have also seen benefits in terms of reduced staff turnover leading to greater consistency of performance for our students and apprentices. The number of staff sickness absence days has reduced alongside the energy usage for the college and therefore its carbon emissions. We have also seen improvements in key quality indicators such as student attendance and retention and we are confident this will feed through into improved achievement rates and more positive outcomes for our students.
What We Offer You in Return
* An excellent pension scheme:
o Local Government: Employer Contribution 24.5%
* A continued professional development programme of up to £750 per academic year
* In addition to the 8 Bank Holidays a year, a generous annual leave allowance of:
o 5 Weeks for Support employees, this will increase to 5.8 weeks after 5 years' service
* Generous occupational sick pay scheme after one year’s service
* Family friendly policies, including up to 5 paid occasions for time off for dependants within a 12 month period, after the first year of service
* Up to Five college closure days in December in addition to annual leave
The closing date for all applications will be Friday 27 September 2024.
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