Geochemist

Job title:

Geochemist

Firm

STFC

Job description

Geochemist
Location: based mostly on the BGS headquarters in Keyworth, NottinghamGrade: UKRI – Band C/S2
Wage: £29,808 each yearHours: Full-time – 37 hours every week (some versatile working choices could also be obtainable together with a small quantity of distant working, though that is primarily a laboratory-based function)Contract sort: Everlasting
Deadline: seventeenth April 2024Please notice that inside UKRI candidates will at the moment be topic to the UKRI Pay & Reward Coverage & Steering to find out their beginning wageA pretty advantages bundle is obtainable, together with an impressive pension scheme (with a particularly beneficiant employer contribution – on common 27% of your pay), 30 days annual go away plus financial institution holidays, and entry to flexi-timeConcerning the functionAn thrilling alternative has arisen for an enthusiastic and extremely motivated Geochemist.Key duties / tasks will embody:

• To help experimental actions within the BGS ‘Hydrothermal’, and ‘Hydrates and Ices’ laboratories of the Fluid and Rock Processes Laboratory Cluster
• Operating experiments (meeting, sampling of pressurised experiments)
• Knowledge evaluation, manipulation, interpretation and reporting
• Presentation of outcomes each internally and externally to undertaking purchasers
• Aiding the design, construct and upkeep of latest and current experimental tools

About youCandidates shall be certified to diploma degree in a related topic, with a flair for sensible actions (eg lab experiments) however different abilities resembling information dealing with and modelling can be fascinating.Given BGS’s present and future commitments to externally funded work related to Decarbonisation & Useful resource Administration, you’ll change into concerned in initiatives referring to radioactive waste, CCS, geothermal, power storage, hydrogen storage and unconventional hydrocarbons.Acceptable coaching together with each inside and exterior programs shall be given to the profitable candidate.Please notice – you’ll be required to have the suitable degree of safety screening/vetting required for the function. UKRI reserves the appropriate to run or re-run safety clearance as required throughout your employment.Please additionally consult with the extra particular important and fascinating abilities standards for this put up.About usThe British Geological Survey (BGS) is an utilized geoscience analysis centre that belongs to UK Analysis and Innovation (UKRI) and is affiliated to the Pure Surroundings Analysis Council(NERC). It’s a world main geological survey whose core mission is to advise authorities of science associated to the subsurface and to undertake utilized analysis to resolve earth and environmental points, each within the UK and globally. It’s funded straight by UKRI, in addition to by means of analysis grants and personal sector contracts.We attempt to advertise equality and variety throughout our organisation as a way to repeatedly enhance our scientific and organisational effectivity. As such, we intention to have a workforce with workers from all backgrounds with people who find themselves obsessed with earth science and who share our dedication to work for the nice of the atmosphere and the advantage of society.Methods to applyCandidates are required to incorporate a CV and masking letter outlining their suitability for the function. We’d stress the significance of this paperwork in our choice course of.A effectively thought by means of utility offering proof and examples of the way you meet the marketed important and fascinating standards for the put up shall be thought of much more favourably than a generic masking letter and CV.Please apply on-line, when you expertise any points making use of for this function, please contact Recruitment@ukri.org.The deadline for receipt of purposes is seventeenth April 2024. Interviews are anticipated to be held in late April 2024 in Nottingham.Expertise Specification – Standards to be assessed at Shortlist ‘S’ and Interview ‘I’ Stage{Qualifications}Important

• BSc diploma in a related topic. (For instance, inorganic chemistry, bodily chemistry, geochemistry, environmental science, analytical chemistry) (S)
• Chemistry and Physics or Maths at ‘A’ or equal degree. (S)
• GCSE grade C or above in English Language (or equal) (S)

Fascinating

• A better qualification (e.g. Msc in Geochemistry) (S)
• Full UK driving licence (S)

ExpertiseImportant

• Will need to have demonstrable sensible laboratory expertise (S)

Fascinating

• Geochemical modelling – i.e. use of codes resembling PhreeqC (I)
• Working with pressurised methods (I)
• Dealing with environmental information, plus information manipulation (I)
• Hint fuel evaluation (I)

InformationImportant

• A very good background in chemistry (S)
• Good numeracy (S)
• Expert in use of Excel, Phrase and PowerPoint (S)

Important

• Expertise of information visualisation software program (I)
• Use of MATLAB and information plotting software program (I)

Expertise and skillsImportant

• Glorious degree of numeracy together with proof of information evaluation (I)
• An curiosity with downside fixing (S)
• Good consideration to element (S)
• A methodical strategy to work (I)
• Willingness to work with excessive stress experimental tools (I)
• Good time administration abilities and in a position to reply to the demand from completely different initiatives working in parallel (I)
• In a position to work as a part of a group in addition to individually (I)

Fascinating

• Good communicator: should be capable of exhibit good oral and written abilities to science and non-science audiences (I)

Private qualitiesImportant

• Self-starter, in a position to undertake and (ultimately) lead lab-based actions/undertaking duties unsupervised (I)
• Willingness to spend brief durations of time away from residence/workplace in UK and abroad to attend undertaking conferences (I)
• Versatile (I)

MotivationImportant

• Demonstrates curiosity and a drive to resolve scientific issues (S)
• Shows an enthusiasm for earth sciences (S)
• Demonstrates an curiosity within the work of BGS and NERC (I)
• Demonstrates an curiosity in their very own Persevering with Skilled Improvement (I)

About The British Geological Survey (BGS)The British Geological Survey (BGS) is an utilized geoscience analysis centre that’s a part of UK Analysis and Innovation (UKRI) and affiliated to the Pure Surroundings Analysis Council (NERC). It’s a world main geological survey that gives a core science mission to tell authorities of science associated to the subsurface and its interfaces and likewise undertakes utilized analysis for options to earth and environmental processes, each within the UK and globally. It’s funded straight by UKRI in addition to by means of analysis grants and through personal sector contracts.BGS has an annual funds of roughly £60 million and employs 650 folks. It has two fundamental websites, a head workplace in Keyworth close to Nottingham and the Lyell Centre, which is a joint collaboration with Heriot Watt College in Edinburgh. BGS works with greater than 150 personal sector organisations in addition to having shut hyperlinks with 40 universities and sponsors roughly 100 PhD college students annually.Methods to ApplyOn-line purposes solely most well-liked for this function. Please submit your CV and a masking letter which clearly outlines the way you fulfil the standards specified alongside along with your motivation for BGS and the function you’re making use of for. Be sure that the job reference quantity is included within the filename description of every doc uploaded. Word that failure to handle the above standards or submit your utility and not using a masking letter could end in your utility not being thought of. You’ll solely be assessed on the content material of your CV and masking letter and never the ‘expertise’ part of the appliance.About UKRIUKRI launched in April 2018, UKRI is a non-departmental public physique sponsored by the Division for Science, Innovation and Expertise (DSIT).Our organisation brings collectively the seven disciplinary analysis councils, Analysis England, which is liable for supporting analysis and information change at larger schooling establishments in England, and the UK’s innovation company, Innovate UK to create an impartial organisation with a robust voice for analysis and innovation, and a imaginative and prescient to make sure the UK maintains its world-leading place in analysis and innovation. Extra data will be discovered at .Selecting to come back to work at UKRI implies that you should have entry to a complete host of advantages from an outlined profit pension scheme, glorious vacation entitlement, entry to worker buying/journey reductions and wage sacrifice cycle to work scheme. For extra particulars, go to .The function holder shall be required to have the suitable degree of safety screening/vetting required for the function. UKRI reserves the appropriate to run or re-run safety clearance as required through the course of employment.How we help EDI within the workforceAt UKRI we imagine that everybody has a proper to be handled with dignity and respect, and to be supplied with equal alternatives to flourish and achieve an atmosphere that allows them to take action. We additionally worth variety of thought and expertise inside inclusive teams, organisations and the broader neighborhood. For additional data, please go toIncapacity Assured EmployerAs customers of the incapacity assured scheme, we assure to interview all disabled candidates who meet the minimal standards for the emptiness/ies. We’ll be sure that people with disabilities are supplied cheap lodging to take part within the job utility or interview course of, to carry out important job features, and to obtain different advantages and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request lodging.

Anticipated wage

£29808 per 12 months

Location

Keyworth, Nottinghamshire – Nottingham

Job date

Thu, 04 Apr 2024 02:43:12 GMT

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