Senior Faculty Technician Faculty Operations Society and Culture

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Job Description

ABOUT THE ROLE

Grade 5 Senior Specialist Technician,

Fashion Pattern Cutter

The School of Design, Art and Creative Industries are looking for an enthusiastic, productive, and self-motivated full-time member of staff to help provide specialist technical support to students and staff across our Fashion programmes.

An opportunity has arisen for a creative, enthusiastic, productive, and self-motivated member of staff to help provide specialist technical support to students across our fashion programmes, focusing primarily on both traditional and contemporary pattern cutting practice.

Further information about the requirements of the role is available in the role description

This role is maternity cover for 13 months

ABOUT THE TEAM

Based in City Campus East the successful candidate will become part of the Fashion Technical team working out one of our studios or specialist workshops. While often required to deliver on your own the team strive work together to deliver a multi disciplinary experience that helps bring the practice based aspects of Fashion together to meet all of our students and stakeholders creative needs.

A virtual tour of the Fashion facilities where you will be based is available to view here

ABOUT YOU

The successful candidate must have a strong grounding and experience in all things pattern cutting from traditional 'flat' cutting to the understanding and use of contemporary digital packages that are now becoming the norm within industry and feel comfortable in delivering these skills to students across a variety of levels.

You must be able to demonstrate a high level of skill, experience and understanding in digital pattern cutting, demonstrating an industry standard of competency in the use of Optitex pattern cutting software and its related equipment alongside the virtual realisation and digital prototyping programmes such as CLO3d.

Your ability to use these contemporary skills and integrate them along with an understanding and use of traditional aspects and skills associated within pattern cutting will help to underpin the principles of practice that sit at the heart of the school's ethos. An understanding of garment construction and the use of associated industrial machinery is also highly desirable.

Reporting to the Technical Manager the successful candidate will be part of a large specialist team within Fashion supporting students in the making of blocks, patterns and shapes through workshops, inductions, demonstrations, 1:1's, group discussion and drop-ins and providing supportive literature and digital content. while also partaking in the day-to-day running and technical activities of the department.

Ensuring the appropriate standards of best practice and Health and Safety protocols are met to create a vibrant, creative and innovative studio and workshop environment is also a must.

If invited to interview applicants will be asked to complete a relevant and associated skills test.

This is a full time position Mon-Fri although there is a possibility of some late night/weekend working.

Please note this is maternity cover for 13 months.

Further information is available in the person specification

Informal enquiries should be made to Kenny Macrae, Technical Support Manager by email at kenny.macrae@northumbria.ac.uk

ABOUT US

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Based in Newcastle upon Tyne and London, we are an on-campus organisation and offer flexible hours and location where the role allows. We pride ourselves on diversity and inclusivity, holding numerous awards for gender and race equality, disability confidence, and research excellence. We also hold the HR Excellence in Research award for implementing the concordat supporting the career Development of Researchers and are members of the Euraxess initiative to deliver information and support to professional researchers. The University has implemented a range of flexible working arrangements, and we are happy to explore candidate requirements as part of the recruitment process.

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