Team Leader - Monash Makerspace Network
Job No.: 693501
Location: Clayton campus
Employment Type: Full-time
Duration: Continuing appointment
Remuneration: $110,527 - $121,227 pa HEW Level 07 (plus 17% employer superannuation)
- Amplify your impact at a world top 50 University
- Join our inclusive, collaborative community
- Be surrounded by extraordinary ideas - and the people who discover them
The Monash Makerspace Network is a suite of advanced fabrication and innovation facilities where students undertake hands-on projects and develop industry-ready skills. The Network includes Makerspace Project Studios, Design and Build Studios, Digital Makerspace, Club Hub, SAMPL, and Composites Processing.
The Opportunity
The Faculty of Engineering is seeking a Team Leader – Monash Makerspace Network to join its innovative and collaborative team.
This role provides specialist expertise to optimise systems, processes, and training across the Monash Makerspace Network, with a focus on enhancing the performance and user experience of the Design and Build Studios and Digital Makerspace. You will ensure high-quality support for students, teaching activities, and student teams.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead continuous improvement of systems, processes, and operations
- Deliver training on equipment, tools, and safe work practices
- Optimise facility infrastructure and fabrication workflows
- Advise on emerging technologies and advanced manufacturing practices
- Ensure compliance with safety and regulatory requirements
- Support student initiatives, including the Industry Innovation Program, extracurricular teams, and doctoral collaborations
About You
You bring strong technical expertise in engineering, fabrication, or advanced manufacturing environments, with demonstrated experience improving operational systems, maintaining safe work practices, and engaging effectively with stakeholders.
Experience taking a product or component from concept through to validation is highly regarded, along with exposure to advanced analysis techniques such as CFD, thermal, electromagnetics, composites, and topology optimisation, supported by first principles and/or empirical calculations.
This is a unique opportunity to contribute to a leading makerspace environment supporting innovation, teaching, and student-led engineering outcomes.
About Monash University
At Monash, work feels different. There’s a sense of belonging, from contributing to something ground breaking – a place where great things happen.
We value difference and diversity, and welcome and celebrate everyone's contributions, lived experience and expertise. That’s why we champion an inclusive and respectful workplace culture where everyone is supported to succeed.
Some 20,000 staff work for Monash around the world. We have 95,000 students, four Australian campuses, and campuses in Malaysia and Indonesia. We also have a major presence in India and China, and a significant centre and research foundation in Italy.
In our short history, we have skyrocketed through global university rankings and established ourselves consistently among the world's best tertiary institutions. We rank in the world’s top-50 universities in rankings including the QS World University Rankings 2026.
Today, we have the momentum to create the future we need for generations to come. Accelerate your change here.
Monash supports flexible and hybrid working arrangements. We have a range of policies in place enabling staff to combine work and personal commitments. This includes supporting parents.
To Apply
Please submit a resume along with a cover letter.
Your application must respond to your experience in the four key areas outlined under the Key Selection Criteria in the position description.
- 3. Practical experience within a wide range of engineering and manufacturing technologies, which ideally would include manual and CNC machining (milling, turning, wire cutting, laser or waterjet cutting), metal fabrication, electrical, composites, 3D printing and scanning
- 4. High-level user of at least one multi-physics Computer Aided Engineering (CAE) package (ANSYS is preferred) ideally with Finite Element Analysis (FEA) skills and experience
- 5. Staff management experience with the ability to motivate and develop a high performance research or technical team
- 6. Demonstrated experience in supporting a safe operating environment, implementing HSW requirements, developing risk assessments and operating procedures and providing authoritative oversight of complex technical processes and the use of novel and specialised equipment
For instructions on how to apply, please refer to 'How to apply for Monash Jobs'.
Diversity is one of our greatest strengths at Monash. We encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, culturally and linguistically diverse people, people with disabilities, neurodivergent people, and people of all genders, sexualities, and age groups.
We are committed to fostering an inclusive and accessible recruitment process at Monash. If you need any reasonable adjustments, please contact us at hr-recruitment@monash.edu in an email titled 'Reasonable Adjustments Request' for a confidential discussion.
Your employment is contingent upon the satisfactory completion of all pre-employment and/or background checks required for the role, as determined by the University.
Enquiries: Ms Katharine Smith, Monash Innovation Labs and Makerspace Network Manager, +61 421 689 422
Position Description: Team Leader - Monash Makerspace Network
Applications Close: Sunday 17 May 2026, 11:55pm AEDT
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