Head of Technical and Safety Services - Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom - Newcastle University

Newcastle University
Newcastle University
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Salary:
£56,021 to £59,421 with progression to £64,914 per annum

Newcastle University is a great place to work, with excellent benefits.

We have a generous holiday package; plus the opportunity to buy more, great pension schemes and a number of health and wellbeing initiatives to support you.


Closing Date: 16 August 2023

The Role


We are excited to launch this opportunity for an experienced, forward-thinking individual to lead our outstanding technical and safety team.


You will provide strategic support and leadership for our technical and safety teams, working in partnership with the key senior academic colleagues and our 4 Newcastle based academic schools of Engineering, Computing, Maths, Statistics & Physics and Natural & Environmental Sciences.

The Faculty operates a number of highly technical outstations for both education and research including (currently): two farms, the Dove Marine Station, the Blyth Marine station (incorporating the research vessel and the Cavitation Tunnel) Tyne Subsea and the DER centre in Sunderland.


The post holder will line manage and work in collaboration with the School Technical Managers and Safety officers in the academic units and business partners to achieve this.

Ensuring there is a clear, flexible and dynamic strategy across the Faculty for the provision of technical services, standards of service and development of services as appropriate


Supported by the Head of Infrastructure, you will be responsible for leading the development and deployment of a multidisciplinary team of around 160 colleagues across the broad areas of technical and safety services, bringing together the community within the Faculty.

You should bring with you a passion to lead an effective and efficient workforce who are equipped with the knowledge, skills and training to enhance and enable the educational, business and research activity taking place in the Faculty now and in the future.


Our Technical Services teams strive to find solutions to local and global challenges and deliver change and to be the best we can be.

We are currently working with a hybrid model of some home based and on campus working.

We would be happy to support applicants who are relocating from outside of the region.

Key Accountabilities

Lead the development and implementation of long term strategic plans across technical services and be responsible for the delivery of activities that fall with this remit: developing prioritised, operational plans; bidding for resource, and planning and organising activities within resource allocated in support of those plans.

Establishing and implementing strategic service requirements and priorities

Lead, inspire and develop a team of professional technical services colleagues to support and deliver effective and sustainable professional support.

Responsible for motivating and mentoring colleagues, identifying skills and talent and ensuring that effective training and development opportunities and interventions are identified to ensure that technical colleagues are able to meet their full potential and there is a clear talent succession plan to ensure we have a dynamic team that can adapt to a changing education sector and the strategic ambitions of the SAgE Faculty and University targets
Proactively support the Faculty Dean of Infrastructure in developing a positive Health and Safety culture in the Faculty. Deputise at University Safety committee meetings when required.

Lead the School Safety officers to maintain and develop an excellent working relationship with the department of Occupational Health & Safety.

Make a significant contribution, alongside Faculty Deans and other PS leaders, to the Faculty strategic and business planning process. Specific responsibility for preparing the Faculty's technical services plans, engaging with the academic community on service needs and requirements.

Work with the research committees and working groups, focussed on new technologies underpinning research, contributing to discussions and helping to shape investment priorities.

Seek out ways to secure external funding for
investment in laboratory equipment.
Lead reviews or projects that are designed to develop the provision of technical services across the Faculty. Ensure that projects are managed effectively, using project management standards, and to the principles of time, cost and quality.

Provide advice on, and support with, investment decisions and the procurement process for laboratory equipment/technologies that underpin the Faculty's strategy and ambitions.

Generating business cases and managing the procurement process, as necessary.
Lead, in consultation with academic units, the continual review of the needs of research against the existing technical services provision to ensure a plan for the investment in replacement laboratory resources and equipment, as well as new technologies, to ensure a cost effective and managed programme of purchase and replacement across the
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