Technical Support Officer in Engineering

Title: - Technical Support Officer in Engineering

Salary: £25,493 per annum (Pro-rata £12,746 for 0.5 FTE)

Join Our Engineering Team as a Technical Support Officer (TSO)

We are recruiting for both a full-time (1.0 FTE) and a part-time (0.5 FTE) Technical Support Officer to support our thriving Engineering department.

This is an exciting opportunity to play a vital role in creating an outstanding learning environment for our talented and ambitious learners. As a Technical Support Officer, you will be responsible for maintaining engineering equipment, ordering and managing supplies, ensuring workshops and learning spaces are safe, organised and well-presented, and providing essential day-to-day technical support across the department.

Working as part of a dedicated, high-performing team, you will help ensure learners have access to the resources, facilities and support they need to succeed. We are looking for a proactive, enthusiastic and highly motivated individual with a genuine commitment to making a positive impact on learners' experiences and future opportunities.

If you take pride in delivering high standards, enjoy working in a practical and supportive role, and want to contribute to transforming lives through education, we would love to hear from you.

Make a difference every day by helping our learners achieve their full potential. As a support colleague you’ll enjoy some really great benefit’s as well as, Local Government Pension scheme, Free on-site Gym at Beaufort Road, Beauty treatments and haircuts, Health care cash plan via Simply Health, saving clubs via Manchester Credit Union, Cycle to work scheme, Costa Coffee on site, Onsite bakery products at Tameside One, The Restaurant at Tameside One, Retail discounts, Refectories on all sites.

What you’ll need: - We are looking for enthusiastic, resilient and highly motivated individuals, with a relevant level 2 qualification or equivalent coupled with a thorough knowledge of the relevant curriculum and the ability to perform a technical support role to contribute to effective learning. You will provide physical, technical and administrative support and should be a strong team player with excellent communication skills.

About us: Tameside College has an excellent reputation and this is a real opportunity for you to make a difference in people’s lives. We’re based in Ashton-Under-Lyne Greater Manchester in a diverse and vibrant further education college that offers a wide range of course including A level and advanced level vocational study programmes, Apprenticeships and adult courses up to degree Level. We aim to give all our students an exceptional experience.

We believe in excellence and we back that up with high expectations, a superb working environment (as part of the Vision Tameside £100 million+ accommodation strategy) and outstanding teaching. We also believe that attending college is about more than achieving a qualification, important though that is. This is why we aim to give learners every opportunity to develop their full potential in a supportive and friendly environment.

Tameside College is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all learners and expects all staff to share this commitment. Employment at Tameside College is subject to an Enhanced DBS (Disclosure & Barring Service) Check via the Disclosure and Barring Service and any post in regulated activity will also be subject to an additional barred list check. Tameside College will meet the costs associated with this.

Please note Keeping Children Safe in Education 2024 guidance requires us to carry out an online search as part of our due diligence on shortlisted candidates. This is to enables us to identify any incidents or issues which we might want to explore at interview with you. Once shortlisting has taken place, this search will be carried out for all candidates who are invited to attend an interview.

Subject to the volume of applications we may decide to close the vacancy earlier than advertised.

Come join us on our journey to outstanding!

Recruitment Agencies: We are not utilising the service of recruitment agencies for this vacancy and will accept direct applications only. Any CVs forwarded for this vacancy will be treated as a gift and not subject to your terms and conditions.