The University of Edinburgh
Mechanical Workshop Technician
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Job Description
UE06: £34,610 - £39,906 per annum
College of Science and Engineering / School of Geosciences
Full time: 35 hours per week
Fixed term: 12 months
The Opportunity
An excellent opportunity has arisen within the School of Geosciences on the Kings Buildings Campus for a Mechanical Workshop Technician. The role holder will play a critical role contributing to the School’s teaching and research activities. As a key member of the Schools Technical Services Team, the post holder will be based in the Mechanical Workshop and will be required to manufacture components to a high standard. The post also integrates fieldwork responsibilities, providing mechanical and maintenance support, as well as assisting academic course organisers with their needs during day and residential trips.
The role offers variety and stretches across a range of activities working within an environment of contemporary machinery with CNC capability. The role offers the opportunity to contribute to manufacture of novel research prototypes, allowing the successful candidate to develop professionally, within a supportive and collegiate environment.
This post is full-time on campus (35 hours per week) however, we are open to considering flexible working patterns.
Your Skills And Attributes For Success
- HND or HNC plus proven experience in a technical or scientific role.
- Proven capability in design and build of complex items in a mechanical workshop using both manual and CNC machines (lathes, grinders, turning centres, milling machines etc).
- Experience of working with a wide range of materials (metals and non-metals).
- Extensive experience in a mechanical workshop environment or other similar role.
- Hands on/tools on aptitude with repair and maintenance of scientific equipment.
- Understanding of good workshop/laboratory management practices.
- Ability to understand and interpret the requirements of staff and students.
- Analytical and technical problem-solving skills including fault diagnosis and resolution.
- Experienced team worker.
- Understanding of Health and Safety regulations.
- Excellent IT skills (e.g. MS Office, CAD).
- Full, clean UK driving license.
- Ability to manage workload, meeting deadlines and quality requirements.
- Good interpersonal and communication skills.
- Excellent record keeping and time management and planning are essential.
- Experience of training others.
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As a valued member of our team you can expect:
- A competitive salary.
- An exciting, positive, creative, challenging and rewarding place to work.
- To be part of a diverse and vibrant international community.
- Comprehensive Staff Benefits, such as a generous holiday entitlement, a defined benefits pension scheme, staff discounts, family-friendly initiatives, and flexible work options. Check out the full list on our staff benefits page (opens in a new tab) and use our reward calculator to discover the total value of your pay and benefits.
Championing equality, diversity and inclusion
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.
Prior to any employment commencing with the University you will be required to evidence your right to work in the UK. Further information is available on our right to work webpages (opens new browser tab).
On this occasion the University will not consider applicants requiring sponsorship for this role. International workers will therefore only be able to take up this role if they can demonstrate an alternative right to work in the UK.
Key dates to note
The closing date for applications is 14 September 2026.
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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.
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About The Team
The School of GeoSciences explores the factors and forces that shape our world. The School aims to understand the world through fundamental curiosity-driven research and to support prescient decision-making at individual to global scales. We undertake world-leading research; offer new ways of understanding natural and social drivers of change; provide inter-and trans-disciplinary solutions; and work in partnership to improve livelihoods and explore ways to manage the environment that are both sustainable and socially equitable.
With over 500 academics, researchers and research students, we are the largest and most successful interdisciplinary grouping of geoscientists and geographers in the UK. Research activity is coordinated within three main Research Institutes – Global Change, Earth and Planetary Science, and Geography and the Lived Environment – and within smaller research groupings that reach across and beyond the School.
A distinctive feature of the School is the combination of academic strength, intellectual breadth and societal relevance. Our interdisciplinary research and teaching builds on established core disciplines (ecology, environmental sciences, geography, geophysics, meteorology, oceanography) to provide a variety of approaches to understanding the world (including, for example, system-scale modelling, process studies and the development of urban and social theory). The School’s research covers fundamental ‘blue-skies’ questions, as well as having application to key societal challenges including inequality and vulnerability; urban precarity; nature and cultural meaning; development and sustainability; climate and environmental change; energy, food and water security; health and wellbeing; natural resources; and natural hazards.
The School of GeoSciences aims to recognise and value diversity in our staff and students, and to support flexible and family-friendly working.
More details about the School is available from http://www.ed.ac.uk/geosciences
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