The DME Lab is hiring for Spring 2025 student positions. Please review the positions below. Interviews will be scheduled for late April and early May 2025.
Job Posting: Support Lead
| Position Title | Support Lead, Fabrication and Digital Technology Support (3 positions open) |
| Department | Digital Media Experience Lab, Library Learning Services Department, TMU Libraries |
| Hours per week | 35 hours/week (Monday, May 26th to Friday, August 29th, 2025) |
| Deadline to apply | 04/30/2025 11:59 PM |
The Opportunity
Based in the TMU Libraries Digital Media Experience Lab (“DME”), the successful candidate will work as part of a team, providing technology welcome desk support to TMU Libraries patrons as they learn and create using emerging technologies. This user-facing role has a specific focus on supporting additive & subtractive manufacturing equipment (E.g., 3D printers, laser cutters,…), design software, and DME fabrication workflows. […]
(Interested candidates should use the job posting link above to submit their application).
Job Posting: Projects Lead
| Position Title | Digital Media Experience Lab Projects Lead |
| Department | Library Learning Services, TMU Libraries |
| Hours per week | 15 |
| Deadline to apply | May 3, 2025 2:00 PM EDT |
| Scheduling Pattern | 5 or 7.5 hour shifts, 16 weeks |
The DME Special Project Leads will work with the DME Manager to advance the DME Lab though a series of high impact engagement projects. Incumbents will produce 2-3 projects per month that demonstrate the lab’s role as an inclusive digital media authoring space available to all TMU Libraries users.
This position will involve:
- Communicating the range of high and low tech tools available at the DME (at lab tours, invited talks,…). Modeling equitable and inclusive digital media authoring practices.
- Identifying and researching opportunities to engage new user groups.
- Completing 8-10 interactive projects (installations, exhibitions, showcase content) that showcase DME services at a variety of venues (orientation events, student activity fairs, SLC Live,…).
- Identifying unmet training opportunities and proposing new workshop programming (E.g., limited run workshops, recurring workshops, informal drop-in workshops) based on needs analyses. Developing innovative, learner-centred training resources (Quickstart guides, tutorial videos, checklists,…).
- Drawing on existing Digital Media and Fabrication skills (intermediate-advanced). Piloting new lab technologies and workflows that could develop into supported DME services.
- Assisting the DME with additional special projects, collaborations, and other duties, as assigned.