Specialist Design & Technology Technician – Resistant Materials & Graphics – Sunmarke School

Job Description

About
us:

Fortes Education has been a leading education provider in the UAE for over four decades with premium international schools and nurseries that have experienced outstanding success and growth. Our schools offer the most innovative and character-building education in the entire Middle East region. 

Our core ethos and philosophy of education is Positive Education (PosEd). Through PosEd, our schools foster active engagement in learning, celebrating character strengths and accomplishments. We encourage children to cultivate fulfilling relationships with others and seek meaning and purpose in their own lives. We enable children to become happy learners and develop into innovative thinkers, confident young adults, and life-long learners. Children develop resilience, a growth mindset and deep character strengths that allow them to flourish in an ever-changing world.

About Sunmarke School – Where Amazing Happens

Sunmarke School provides an ambitious and inspiring, values-based education that nurtures the hearts and minds of students so that they can flourish and achieve their dreams. Powered by our unique signature programs, Sunmarke is a uniquely innovative school transforming young lives.

Sunmarke is an all–through school which offers a premium education across a fantastic range of pathways for students including the National Curriculum of England, GCSE/IGCSE,‘A’ Levels, BTEC and the IB Diploma and Career Related Programmes. We also offer a suite of Signature Programmes unrivalled in Dubai. With unique experiences in Environmental and Sustainability Studies, students learn in Forest School settings, as well as utilise cutting-edge hydroponic technology to examine how science can support sustainability in future terrains.

Our world-class STEAM centre offers students an incredible opportunity to apply their learning in solving real-world problems, from Foundation Stage through to Year 9. We run best-in-classmini-MBA programmes for our Year 10 to 13 students in conjunction with the University of Birmingham and the Peter Jones Academy, to ensure their future success in business and entrepreneurship.

We are technologically innovative and run comprehensive AI programmes for students in all core subjects, as well as deepening other subjects through Augmented and Virtual Reality AR/VR experiences. We have outstanding performing arts opportunities with fantastic facilities and amazing teachers to help our more creative students truly find their voice. Sunmarke School was judged by the Dubai School Inspection Bureau (DSIB) as a Very Good’ school in our 3rd year of operation and ‘Outstanding’ in our British Schools Overseas (BSO) inspection in 2019.

We present an exciting opportunity to join our all through school and to play an important part in our journey to “outstanding”. Sunmarke School, Dubai is one of our flag-ship schools, located at a prime location in Jumeirah Village
Triangle. 

About
you:

We seek to
appoint an appropriately qualified and experienced Specialist Design &
Technology Technician – Resistant Materials & Graphics to join our
team in August 2023. This is a crucial supporting position in the Design and
Technology subject area.

Job Purpose: 

• To provide technical
  support to teaching staff & classes. 
• To
  adopt a flexible style in order to tackle a range of routine duties in the
  creativity workshops

Main Duties: 

• Follow
  company-wide admin & operational Policies / Procedures for maintaining,
  documenting, and inventorisation trackers. Have experience in working
  with and maintaining large machinery associated with material processing in
  D&T: wood, metal and plastic.
• Ensure
  that all workshop and practical areas, tools, equipment, computers and
  materials are kept in an operable and safe manner and ready for use by staff
  and pupils. 
• Prepare,
  provide and return tools, equipment and materials as necessary to enable
  staff and pupils to function effectively. This must be done prior to
  the commencement of a lesson.  
• Set
  up as necessary hardware required by teachers for class demonstration or pupil
  use.  
• Manufacture
  pieces of equipment, jigs and fixtures as required by staff for
  class demonstration or pupil use.  
• Support
  lessons and work alongside teachers during designing and making activities
  to aid pupil progress.  
• Assist staff in the storage and
  organisation of resources, and preparation of class materials and displays in a
  timely, safe and effective way.  
• Prepare
  materials and/or resource packs for teachers’ and pupils’ design-based projects.  
• Construct
  storage systems for pupils’ work and other materials, for example, shelving
  arrangements. 
• Routine
  maintenance of workshop equipment, machine, and hand tools
  to include:  
• Repairs
  where appropriate including metal and wood, cutting machines as necessary
  within appropriate regulations and safety practices.  
• Repairs where
  appropriate to heat treatment equipment.  
• Carry out such other duties as reasonably fall within the purview of this post as designated by the organisation. 
• Be flexible and be prepared to fully support the delivery of and D&T curriculum
• Be of a practical nature and be comfortable in a school workshop or studio environment

Skills we are looking for:

• Excellent
Communication Skills 

•
Proficient in MS office & ICT literate and willing
to learn unfamiliar ICT programs. 

•
Should also have a meticulous attention to detail, especially with regard
to health and safety.  

•
Experience of working with children would be an advantage 

Application
Process:

If you have the passion, energy,
and commitment to drive accelerated outcomes for young people, we will welcome your application.  In return, you will join a
rapidly evolving organisation that can offer you a central role in
our future growth plans.