Engineering Lecturer, Abingdon

No candidate will meet every single desired qualification / criteria. If your experience looks a little different from what we've identified and you think you can bring value to the role, we'd love to learn more about you!

Salary:up to£51,587 per annum

Hours per week:37

Weeks per annum:52

Working pattern:Monday - Thursday 7.5 hours, Friday 7 hours

Location:Abingdon Campus

Contract type:Permanent

Expected Start Date:August 2026

About the Role

We are growing our Engineering team and are looking to appoint a lecturer to support increasing student numbers and provision. Our current delivery model is strong and fully established - these roles are aboutadding capacity and bringing in new industry expertise, not filling gaps.

This is an excellent opportunity for someone looking totransition from industry into education. Whether you have years of experience in mechanical design, CAD, manufacturing or a related field, we will support you to develop your teaching practice and gain qualifications where needed.

We are particularly interested in candidates with experience inmechanical design and CAD (ideally SolidWorks), helping us further strengthen this area within the team.

The role is intentionally flexible. Depending on your background, you could teach in a workshop, CAD/computer suite, specialist teaching room or design&prototype facility. We align teaching to individual strengths, ensuring you teach in areas where you bring the greatest value while developing broader capability over time.

What You Will Teach

You will contribute to awell-established and expanding engineering curriculum, including:

• T Levels - Design&Development for Engineering&Manufacturing(Mechanical and Electrical/Electronic pathways)
• City&Guilds Engineering -Level 1 and Level 2 programmes with a balanced mix of mechanical and electrical/electronic content
• Engineering Apprenticeships -Levels 2 to 4 across a range of pathways

Delivery is varied and designed to reflect real industry practice. Depending on your experience, this may include:

• CAD and design-led teaching (including SolidWorks).
• Practical, workshop-based delivery.
• Applied engineering theory.
• Project-based learning linked to real engineering contexts.

You do not need previous teaching experience - we are looking forskilled engineers who want to pass on their knowledge. Your teaching load will be shaped around your expertise, allowing you to specialise while contributing to a wider team delivery.

*Abingdon and Witney College reserve the right to close all applications before posted closing date.

Any successful candidates will be required to complete a structured training pathway, unless they already hold the relevant qualifications. This includes a two-week teacher induction, followed by the Award in Education and Training (AET), and then the Level 5 Learning and Skills Teacher (LST) apprenticeship. There is also the option to pursue Qualified Teacher Status (QTS) at a later stage.

AWC values diversity and encourages applications from all sections of the community. We are committed to safeguarding and expect all our employees and volunteers to share this commitment. We are exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and all appointments are subject to satisfactory clearances including enhanced DBS checks.

Abingdon and Witney College are committed to safer recruitment practices. In addition to our pre-employment checks, we will conduct an online search. This includes checking Google main results feed as well as the'News'and'Images'tab. We will be checking for any publicly available information that suggests the applicant may not be suitable to work with children or young/vulnerable people or content that could potentially damage Abingdon and Witney College's reputation. This may include inappropriate posts, comments or images displaying evidence of offensive or inappropriate behaviour, jokes or language, discriminatory comments, inappropriate photos, drug or alcohol misuse.