Instructor Workshops 3D-Lab

Design Academy Eindhoven is looking for an Instructor Workshops, 3d-Lab (3d-print Workshop), 16 hours/week

About the team

Are you up for being challenged by our students to tackle the 'impossibilities' within your field or specialism? Do you have the drive to push the boundaries within your workshop, and collaborate with fellow workshops in search for radical solutions?

This will be the atmosphere you breathe! You will be working independently in the 3D-Print Workshop. You will form a team with one other colleague, and together you will support and guide students with 3D-printing, 3D-scanning and laser-cutting. This will be done through providing basic training for the use of machines and (software)tools available within the workshop, and as you help them realise their projects.

What will you be doing

As our Workshop Instructor you will be responsible for the guidance of students in their design assignments, and the supervision and management of the workshop. You seek to harmonise and connect with the lecturers, your workshop colleagues, and associated companies. To ensure the continued quality of the facilities on offer, you will take initiatives to improve them through submitting proposals to the Workshop Team Coordinator. Proposals for improvements will be in the areas of user friendliness, introducing new finishing materials, technical feasibility, cost efficiencies, working conditions, health and safety, and environmental impact.

You will require a broad knowledge on related techniques, and provide insights into the correlation between your own working field and related fabrication and prototyping processes. You will develop instruction material and compile introductions on the technical background of working with the resources, facilities, materials, machines and equipment in the workshop.

What you will bring to the team

• Higher vocational, professional and intellectual education, and/or relevant qualifications;
• In-house emergency basics certificate;
• Experience in teaching higher vocational education is an advantage;
• Pedagogical and professional didactic knowledge and skills;
• Technical and technological insights into the possibilities, solutions and deployment of machines, equipment, and materials;
• Demonstrable knowledge of CAD software, including Rhino 3D & Grasshopper, Solidworks, Fusion360 (and possibly also: Blender, Cinema 4D / 3ds Max);
• Demonstrable experience with contemporary 3D printing techniques, including a thorough command of FDM & SLA 3D-printing techniques, through which you can describe yourself as a model maker.
• It is a plus to have an affinity for robotics / VR / game development / programming (Arduino / Raspberry Pi), and relevant knowledge of electronics for support for PCBs and soldering components.
• A practical attitude; you help to ensure the continuity of the workshop.
• An Independent, proactive and flexible attitude, with flexibility about working evenings;
• A communicative and customer-friendly attitude;
• An eagerness to push the boundaries;
• Knowledge and skills to plan and organise work processes and develop instructional material;
• Proficiency in both spoken and written Dutch and English.

Our offer

We offer you a challenging position in an international and dynamic working environment. It is a part-time position of 16 hours per week, spread over multiple days, with a provisional contract of 1 year. Salary indication is in the range between € 2.757,- and € 3.691,- per month for full time employment (scale 8). The employment terms are in accordance with the collective labour agreement CAO-HBO, including a holiday allowance of 8% and a year-end bonus of 8.3%. 

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Information and application

For more information about the position, please contact Allard Boer, Team Coordinator Workshops via allard.boer@designacademy.nl . Please only respond to this vacancy if you meet the selection criteria. You can apply with your motivation letter and CV via the job postings link on our website www.designacademy.nl/p/about-dae/jobs. Job interviews will take place as soon as possible.

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About DAE

Design Academy Eindhoven (DAE) is one of the world’s leading design schools, recognised internationally for its forward-thinking and renowned professors and alumni. For over 70 years it has trained aspiring designers to make their mark on the future by thinking freely and openly about what design can achieve, consistently exploring design as an instrument of material, social, environmental and critical innovation. Today it is home to a community of many nationalities and cultures, offering an environment where personal perspectives on the world can be translated into meaningful and daring propositions. They are guided in this by a team of professional designers, architects, researchers, writers and curators, all active within the academy as well as in the professional field.

DAE is a University of the Arts, offering both BA and MA degrees, specialised in training students in different design perspectives in order to produce critical and socially engaged designers. In conjunction with the educational programmes, DAE has international research Professorships focused on collaborative research projects. The commonality at DAE is the shared political values of an inclusive society that embraces diversity in every aspect. In addition, the hybrid, conceptual, contextual and international approach to design makes DAE’s programmes distinctive.

About working at DAE

The Academy’s community is its heart. From Studio Leaders to tutors, coordinators to workshop instructors, caretakers to catering team, students and staff, each individual plays an important part in shaping DAE.

With this in mind, the Academy aims to create a progressive environment for all of its employees, offering opportunities for both personal and professional development within a stimulating and safe working environment. The school’s personnel policy also places a strong emphasis on identifying and supporting talent and creating a healthy and engaging social atmosphere.

As we build our excellence on the diversity of our staff and student community, we pay continual attention to diversity and inclusion and provide a safe learning and working environment in a broader sense. We foster equality and inclusion and promote respect and a sense of belonging for all. We therefore encourage proposals from all sections of society.