Engine Shed, Bristol’s highly successful innovation hub, is recruiting to scale up its own activities and prepare for its expansion into Engine Shed 2.
After three hectic years since it opened, Engine Shed now qualifies as a ‘scale-up company’, according to the definition used by the UK’s Scale Up Institute.
The project, a partnership between Bristol City Council and the University of Bristol housed in part of Brunel’s original Temple Meads railway station, has more than 10 employees and has grown by at least 20% a year for three years. 
Engine Shed recognises it has an important role to play in developing the Bristol and Bath ecosystem to better support businesses that want to scale up, and so, in partnership with the West of England Local Enterprise Partnership, Business West and the University of Bristol, it is now recruiting a ‘scale-up enabler’.
At the same time, it requires a new member of the front-of house team for its newly revamped and expanded Junction seminar space.
And to ensure that the economic growth that this new role stimulates, is inclusive for the long-term, Engine Shed is also looking for a part-time project worker to co-ordinate activities within its Diverse Workforce for the Future and Innovation strands.
Engine Shed director Nick Sturge said: “This represents a near 50% increase in headcount in the team, which is exciting – especially as it’s driven by partnership with other organisations in the Bristol and Bath ecosystem.
“All I am hearing from our peers, locally, is growth, growth, growth. We have a role to play in helping join that up and do what we can to ensure that the growth works for everyone in the city-region.”
Engine Shed is particularly keen to hear from applicants in communities of Bristol and Bath not currently well represented in its team or its activities.
Details of all roles can be found on the Engine Shed vacancies page.
Engine Shed 2 plans to be developed on the derelict George and Railway island site and will offer an opportunity to create more space to inspire young people to become the entrepreneurs of the future while transforming a gateway site close to the station that has been an eyesore for years.
