Facility Manager

Melkamu Birlie Genet

Facility Manager for Faculty of Chemical and Food Engineering

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain educational and research support technologies, software’s and online resources;
• Ensure the provision and functionality of classroom and syndicate rooms’ technologies, infrastructure.
• Ensure the provision and functionality of offices and syndicate rooms’ technologies, infrastructure
• Support and advise chairs in the development, maintenance and accessing of their respective electronic, digital, and other online course system resources
• Oversee the demonstration and instruct ion of students in the preparation of materials and the use of laboratory and workshop equipment
• To ensure that the Technical team provides a helpful and timely reactive service to the requests of academic staff regarding preparation for laboratory practical sessions and for research.
• To respond to student requests for assistance in practical sessions and where appropriate with projects and equipment support, where these needs cannot be met directly from a member of the Technical team, maintaining a professional approach to support students, promoting development and preventing dependency.
• Oversee and contribute to the preparation and maintenance of equipment for laboratory work, including set up, dismantling and resetting of experimental spaces as necessary.
• Provide timely, efficient and customer based printing and copying services
• Develop and produce audio-video resources: lectures, expert interviews, laboratory, experiments, conferences, historic places and events, movies.
• Ensure a conducive environment for efficient laboratories and workshops utilization.
• Provide support and guidance on the use of materials and equipment for teaching and research.
• Make collaborative decisions with academic staff and the technical team regarding preparation for laboratory and workshop sessions.
• Provide advice to students and colleagues where necessary to allow them to make decisions concerning practical work.
• Initiate proposal s and contribute to collaborative decisions with academic staff regarding, for example, the purchase of new capital equipment
• Undertake any other related tasks given by the dean

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