technical support

technical support Edinburgh, Scotland

University of Edinburgh
Full Time Edinburgh, Scotland 10.56 - 12.04 GBP Today
Job description

Grade UE03: £20,863 - £22,197 per annum

Corporate Services Group / Bioresearch & Veterinary Services

Full-time: 35 hours per week

Open-ended

We are looking for Technical Support Assistants to join our team.

The Opportunity:

You will have the responsibility of day-to-day housekeeping cleaning duties within Bioresearch & Veterinary Services facilities. These tasks include essential sterilisation support duties in the wash-up areas, including cleaning used rodent cages/fish tanks and rodent drinking water bottles. The ability to work in a physically demanding environment is essential. There are no recommended minimum qualifications, and may well suit school leavers; a knowledge of Animal Welfare/Husbandry would be an advantage. All appropriate training will be provided and there is the opportunity to gain further qualifications. Junior Technical Assistant will be expected to enrol in a distance learning course on Animal Technology.

Knowledge, Skills and Experience Needed for the Job
Essential

  • School education to standard grades or equivalent
  • Basic understanding of, and ability to apply, health and safety procedures in the workplace
  • Familiarity with standard IT equipment
  • Accuracy and ability to follow instruction
  • Understand the principles behind caring for animals and what their basic requirements are
  • Good communication skills

Desirable

  • Work experience with Animals

Click here for the full job description.

Interviews are due to take place w/c 14th August 2023.

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.

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.

Unless stated otherwise the closing time for applications is 11:59pm GMT. If you are applying outside the UK the closing time on our adverts automatically adjusts to your browsers local time zone.

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 Tier 2/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.

technical support
University of Edinburgh

www.ed.ac.uk
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Professor Peter Mathieson
$500 million to $1 billion (USD)
10000+ Employees
College / University
Colleges & Universities
Education
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