UNIVERSITY OF READING
Farm & Research Workshop Technician
Salary: Grade £31,236 - £35,608 per annum
Contractual hours: 36
Basis: Full time
Job reference: RRF53562
Contract: Full time (36 hours per week), Permanent
Closing Date: 21 September 2026 at 23:59
Interviews will be held: 1 October 2026
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The Centre for Dairy Research (CEDAR) is a unique agricultural research facility supporting applied and strategic large-animal research. The Centre operates across a 580-hectare farm with approximately 550 Holstein dairy cows.
If you have excellent organisation skills, enjoy fixing things,



improving things and finding practical solutions to unusual engineering problems, this could be a particularly interesting agricultural engineering role.
We are looking for an Agricultural Engineer / Workshop Technician to join our team working across the University Farms at Arborfield and Sonning. Alongside maintaining and repairing the machinery and equipment needed to run a busy working farm, you will support the specialist equipment and infrastructure used in our research.
This is a varied, hands-on role with the opportunity to take ownership of the workshop. You will diagnose faults, carry out servicing and repairs, develop preventative maintenance schedules for machines and slurry systems, source parts and equipment, and help us improve how the workshop operates.
There is also scope for practical engineering and problem-solving. Our research activities sometimes require equipment to be adapted, repaired or developed for a particular purpose, so we are

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