Senior Technical Officer for Combustion Rigs
- Employer
- CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY
- Location
- Cranfield, United Kingdom
- Salary
- £37,337 per annum
- Closing date
- 18 Mar 2024
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- Job Type
- Professional Services, Other Professional Services
- Contract Type
- Fixed Term
- Hours
- Full Time
Job Details
School/Department: School of Aerospace, Transport and Manufacturing
Based at: Cranfield Campus, Cranfield, Bedfordshire
Hours of work; 37 hours per week, normally worked Monday to Friday. Flexible working will be considered.
Contract type: Fixed term contract
Fixed Term Period: Until 31 August 2026
Salary: Full time starting salary is normally in the range of £37,337 per annum
Apply by: 18/03/2024
Role Description
Senior Technical Officer for Combustion Rigs
We welcome applications from passionate, skilled, committed, prospective individuals to join our team at Cranfield University to contribute to experimental gas turbine low emissions combustion research.
About the Role
The purpose of this position is to provide technical expertise in the design, operation, and maintenance of experimental facilities within the Gas Turbine Engineering Laboratories with special focus in the fields of combustion, high-pressure high temperature high-mass flow rigs. The role will involve being the first point of contact for analysis, problem solving, and faults finding in a test rig supporting contract research.
About You
You will be educated to HNC/D and/or an apprenticeship in an engineering discipline. You will have significant experience in mechanical engineering including assembly, maintenance and operation of engine components, with knowledge in Health and Safety for industrial installation and risk assessment. Skills such as mechanical components assembly, pipework installation, work plan development and execution are required. You are expected to be capable of working under tight timelines and leading small group of technicians.
About Us
As a specialist postgraduate university, Cranfield’s world-class expertise, large-scale facilities and unrivalled industry partnerships are creating leaders in technology and management globally. Learn more about Cranfield and our unique impact here.
Our Values and Commitments
Our shared, stated values help to define who we are and underpin everything we do: Ambition; Impact; Respect; and Community. Find out more here.
We aim to create and maintain a culture in which everyone can work and study together and realise their full potential. We are a Disability Confident Employer and proud members of the Stonewall Diversity Champions Programme. We are committed to actively exploring flexible working options for each role and have been ranked in the Top 30 family friendly employers in the UK by the charity Working Families. Find out more about our key commitments to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion and Flexible Working here.
As part of our commitment to support and develop Technical staff across the University, we are a founding signatory of the Science Council's Technician Commitment. Find out more here.
Working Arrangements
Collaborating and connecting are integral to so much of what we do. Our Working Arrangements Framework provides many staff with the opportunity to flexibly combine on-site and remote working, where job roles allow, balancing the needs of our community of staff, students, clients and partners.
How to apply
For an informal discussion about this opportunity, please contact Dr Xiaoxiao Sun, Lecturer in Low Emissions Gas Turbine Combustion, on (T): 01234 752941: or (E): x.sun@cranfield.ac.uk
Please do not hesitate to contact us for further details on E: hrrecruitment@cranfield.ac.uk. Please quote reference number 4769.
Closing date for receipt of applications: 18 March 2024
Company
Cranfield is world-leading in its contribution to global innovation. With our emphasis on the aerospace, agrifood, defence and security, environmental technology, leadership and management, manufacturing and transport systems sectors, we have changed the way society thinks, works and learns.
We generate and transform knowledge, translating it to the benefit of society. Our partners, from micro SMEs to the largest blue-chip multinationals, from governments across the world to NGOs and charities, tell us this is what they value about Cranfield.
Innovation is part of Cranfield’s ‘corporate DNA’, evolved over 60 years of commitment to this agenda.
Our work informs policy for governments and produces new technologies and products for the world of commerce. We draw on this pool of research and consultancy to provide our students with a distinctive ‘real-world’ learning environment, allowing them to develop as professionals and transfer their new knowledge to the global economy. This has always been the ‘Cranfield way’ but it has never been more important than in today’s world.
People are key to our competitive advantage and so we need to attract, develop and retain the best talent for our business. We aim to create a culture where you can flourish and succeed and, in turn, contribute towards Cranfield’s success.
- Telephone
- +(44)01234 750111
- Location
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CRANFIELD
CRANFIELD
BEDFORDSHIRE
MK43 0AL
GB
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