All Things Urban

Participatory City Foundation works to make practical participation a key building block for improving the everyday life of London residents. The Every One Every Day initiative intends to provide a platform for 100s of residents who work on wonderful neighbourhood projects.

The Warehouse Manager is a pivotal role in the Every One Every Day initiative. The Warehouse is the home to many of the Every One Every Day team members as well as providing a unique publicly accessible co-working, events and maker space in the heart of B&D.

You will be take a lead role in transforming an empty building into a thriving, creative community. You will be based at The Warehouse and will act as the key technical lead for all warehouse machinery, as well as the primary member of staff responsible for co-ordinating the day to day use of the space with and on behalf of local makers.

You’ll work closely with all the Every One Every Day staff including the research and programme teams to support the specialist incubation programmes, which will take place in the functional makerspaces. A strong people person, you will be passionate about making and finding ways for everyone to create and make.

Your work will focus on two main areas:

• Technical workshop and space management
• Project and business development

Technical workshop and space management:

• To ensure the warehouse and associated areas operate in a safe manner, including providing appropriate training for all users, and supervision as required, in accordance with Health and Safety legislation and local best practice.
• To help maintain a technical staff presence in the workshop during warehouse opening hours in order to facilitate access and ensure appropriate supervision is available as needed.
• Teach appropriate and safe use of equipment, share and teach related expertise in making, craft and design.
• To provide training, supervision and demonstrations to external visitors to the Warehouse, including setting up and taking down of experiments/equipment as required.
• Responsible for maintenance of equipment, solving any safety or maintenance related problems that affect the use or operation of the Warehouse, and to be proactive in solving problems within the scope of the role.
• To ensure that the Warehouse and associated equipment is appropriately maintained and stored. Responsible for holding maintenance records and inventory of equipment.
• Scheduling, memberships, and space use management of the Warehouse.
• Managing the Warehouse budget and spend with the Office Manager.

Links to community building activities:

• Getting to know all the members, researchers and local residents.
• Work with researchers to assist with data gathering.
• Train and develop apprentices/trainees/placements in skills with support of the Neighbourhood School.

Project and Business Development:

• Working with the Programmes team to run the incubator programmes.
• Working with specialist tutors and other external staff.

Essential Skills:

• Be able to use precision workshop equipment including: lathes, milling and cutting machines, computer controlled equipment.
• You are a ‘maker’ and be able to demonstrate you can produce a high quality product.
• Able to communicate clearly to non-technical audience.
• Excellent people person- thriving on working with a diverse group of people.
• Action orientated- able to get things done to time and budget, including working with a number of different people.

Desirable Skills:

• You have one or more additional specialist skills such as CNC machining, ceramics, electronics, welding, computer programming, plumbing or others.

Essential Knowledge & Experience:

• Knowledge in engineering or making, which enables you to advise students, fellow staff, and researchers on technical issues regarding concept, design, CAD, manufacture, assembly and installation of devices. You are likely to have an apprenticeship, BTEC, degree or equivalent qualification in a relevant subject.
• Good knowledge of materials and their use.
• Be able to understand design drawings and CAD files, and work from sketches and verbal instructions, and must have a good understanding of workshop principles.
• Experience of advising others regarding design, materials, manufacture etc in either a commercial, educational, or makespace environment.
• Experience of working with diverse teams.

Desirable Knowledge & Experience:

• Experience in teaching, mentoring or demonstrating skills or crafts.
• Have worked within a workshop environment (likely for 3-5 years) with responsibility for assembly of complex devices and the development of innovative designs.
• Experience of co-production techniques.
• Interested in social design and system change.

Personal Qualities

• Committed to high quality of manufacture, demonstrable attention to precision and detail, and passionate about making and finding ways for everyone to create and make.
• Energetic- Great at face to face communication- able to convey ideas, generate excitement, motivate and encourage people to get involved.
• Treats people equally- sees people as individuals.
• Persistent - strong follow-up ensuring that excitement is generated.
• Relationship builder- able to talk with local people, shops, businesses to surface opportunities.
• Curious with a learning mindset
• Being outcome focussed- relentless pursuit of objectives and outcomes (e.g. membership, opportunities).
• Resilient- able to bring the same energy to your work at the end of the day, as you were at the start and to thrive on the everyday ups and downs.
• A commitment to achieving social change, where everyone is able to participate and no-one is left behind.

£33,000-38,000

We’re not fully sure whether this role is open to international candidates. If you would need visa sponsorship or work authorisation, we recommend checking directly with the employer before applying.