Shop Manager & I-Lab Engineer
As a Shop Manager at The Nueva school, you maintain the shop culture and shop space to ensure that it remains a productive and healthy learning environment. Do you love to tinker and build? Does the latest issue of Make Magazine send you to your workbench? The internationally-known Nueva School is looking for you! Our kids love to invent and create. We're looking for someone with a similar mindset (and a lot more years of training) to help assist and guide our gifted high school students. Engineers are especially invited to apply.
- Full-time
- Can include associate teacher training as part of Nueva's Innovative Teacher Program, depending on skills and interests of the candidate.
- Includes great benefit package.
- Bay Meadows Campus in San Mateo (easy CalTrain access)
General Responsibilities:
- Work with 9th - 12th graders on individual or small group projects.
- Support design and engineering classes in a 9th-12th grades.
- Creating a welcoming, safe, and inclusive student culture in the shop.
- Collaborate effectively with the I-Lab Faculty and Administration.
- Maintain/arrange for service of all tools and equipment.
- Enforce all shop safety rules.
- Assist/Mentor with after-school programs, potentially including: First Robotics and MIT InvenTeams.
- Current shop tools include:
- Wood shop: bandsaw, scroll saw, drill press, panel saw,CNC router, stationary disc/belt sander, miter saw, spindle sander, misc. portable power tools and hand tools.
- Metal shop: Tormach CNC Mill, bandsaw, manual mill, drill press, MIG welding, TIG welding, portable power tools and hand tools.
- Digital Fabrication: laser cutter, 3D printers, other mill, carvey, soldering irons.
- Textiles: sewing machine.
- Electronics: function generators, power supplies, oscilloscopes, misc. test equipment.
- Identify, organize, and maintain a stock of commonly used shop materials.
- Create and maintain systems to keep the shop clean and organized.
Position Qualifications:
- Has B.S. or higher in engineering or a comparable degree or equivalent experience
- Hardworking, organized, and reliable with a steadfast focus on safety.
- Passionate about broadening the skills and confidence of our students in the tech arena .
- Demonstrates an interest in Design Thinking, if not expertise.
- Can relate to and connect with gifted students.
- Expertise in design, engineering, and making across multiple fabrication domains.
- Loves to collaborate with an enthusiastic community of Design Thinkers, Designers, and Makers.
- Has teaching, coaching, or educational experience (not required, but a plus).
- Can guide a student from their initial idea to completion, while leaving locus of control in the student's hands.
- Technologically savvy and can navigate (or learn to navigate) complex technological processes.
- Has years of experience and confidence with multiple design and fabrication processes, including the aforementioned tools and:
- CAD software, CAM software
- Simple programming (i.e. Arduino, Scratch)
- Electronics (simple DC circuits, breadboarding, Arduino sensors and motors, etc.)
- Robotics and/or mechatronics
- Learns new technologies as they emerge, and is excited to make recommendations for new purchases to keep the I-Lab cutting edge.
- Has a 'fix-it' mentality and can find solutions to most shop problems.
To Apply: Please send a cover letter, resume, and portfolio of work to sswaaley@nuevaschool.org and ksaxe@nuevaschool.org. Please be sure to note the position title in the subject of your email.