Electro-Mechanical Engineering Lecturer
Job Reference: ELA/10.2025

Salary: This is a full time role with an actual salary of up to £40,187 per annum.

Working Hours: 33 hours per week over 4 days, working one in four Fridays, 52 weeks per year.

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Electro-Mechanical Engineering Lecturer to join our Engineering department.

The College have successfully secured funding from the Greater Lincolnshire LEP (Local Enterprise Partnership) and have created a multi-million-pound centre of excellence for sustainability and renewable energies. The project transformed our provision with industry-standard workshops, equipment, and digital learning spaces. The Energy Centre allows us to expand our provision and offer new Engineering and Construction courses in electrical installation, plumbing, gas fitting and renewable energies including solar, wind, and air source heating. Together with our Institute of Technology, the Energy Centre marks a flagship investment by Grantham College in training for the jobs of the future.

The purpose of the role is to demonstrate a high quality of professional practice and provide quality teaching and learning at a variety of levels. To devise action plans and maintain appropriate records.

The successful applicant must have:

• Engineering Trade Qualifications
• HND/Degree or equivalent
• Teaching qualification - PTLLS, DTLLS or equivalent or willing to work towards
• Engineering Industry experience
• Motivation to work towards team targets
• Ability to work under pressure
• Enthusiastic and motivated
• Desire for learners to achieve full potential
• Able to effectively manage a cohort of learners and complete in a timely manner, while meeting IQA/EQA standards

The roles main duties include:

• To teach, using an appropriate mix of traditional, e-learning and blended learning approaches, on a range of Engineering courses from Level 1 to 5.
• To provide support and guidance to students.
• To operate as an effective member of relevant course teams and to work closely with other areas.
• To carry out administrative duties associated with teaching, including maintenance of registers, schemes of work, assessments, reports, course records and course evaluations to a satisfactory standard and within established deadlines.
• To ensure safe working practices are observed by yourself and others (including students) for whom you are responsible.
• To provide such returns or reports as may from time to time as required by the Curriculum Manager or College Senior Leadership Team.
• To assist in the recruitment of students, including interviewing and enrolments.
• To assist in the marketing of the College provision through attendance at Careers Conventions, Open Days and other promotional events.
• To assist in the development of curriculum support materials.
• To assist with programmes of work experience and/or industrial and commercial liaison, including the organisation and monitoring of work experience placements.
• To assist with programmes of work experience and/or industrial and commercial liaison, including the organisation and monitoring of work experience placements

To ensure the principles of equality and diversity are upheld

This role requires you to engage in regulatory activity in the FE sector. The full definition of regulatory activity is set out in the Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006 as amended by the Protection of Freedoms Act 2012. Regulated activity includes teaching, instructing, caring for or supervising children if the person is unsupervised.

Fancy a 4-day working week*?

Grantham College operate a 4-day working week. Staff benefit from working a full-time contract over four days. You will work core hours of Monday to Thursday, working a Friday morning once a month

Grantham College experience positive benefits from the 4-day week, including improvement to staff wellbeing and morale. We have also seen benefits in terms of reduced staff turnover leading to greater consistency of performance for our students and apprentices. The number of staff sickness absence days has reduced alongside the energy usage for the college and therefore its carbon emissions. We have also seen improvements in key quality indicators such as student attendance and retention and we are confident this will feed through into improved achievement rates and more positive outcomes for our students.

What we offer you in return:

• An excellent pension scheme :
  • Teachers' Pension: Employer Contribution 28.68%
• A continued professional development programme of up to £750 per academic year
• In addition to the 8 Bank Holidays a year, a generous annual leave allowance of:
  • 7.4 Weeks for Academic employees,
• Generous occupational sick pay scheme after one years service
• Family friendly policies, including up to 5 paid occasions for time off for dependants within a 12 month period, after the first year of service
• Up to Five college closure days in December in addition to annual leave

The closing date for all applications will be Sunday 30 November 2025.