PhD Graduate/PostDoc – Structural Integrity Specialist

Job title:

PhD Graduate/PostDoc – Structural Integrity Specialist

Firm

Frazer-Nash

Job description

Job Description:Location: This position will probably be primarily based from our Plymouth workplace.Ending a Doctorate is a major milestone. For a lot of a route into academia by a PostDoc place is a well-trodden path however for those who’re seeking to apply the distinctive abilities you have acquired throughout your PhD in an industrial context, Frazer-Nash may very well be the reply for you!Valuing Your DoctorateAs a high-tech engineering consultancy Frazer-Nash values the extra abilities and expertise that Doctorate graduates deliver to our enterprise. For us the worth you deliver comes by a mix of specialist data, a sturdy understanding of engineering and science fundamentals from undergraduate instructing, expertise of presenting at conferences, and a capability to have interaction with a spread of stakeholders to resolve issues. Inside our Asset Integrity space, a lot of your potential colleagues and line managers have themselves accomplished PhDs, DPhils or EngDs. Due to this fact, your like-minded colleagues are readily outfitted that will help you to benefit from your expertise and abilities and tailor a profession growth plan for you.Versatile Strategy to Beginning WorkWe additionally recognise that ending your doctorate is a annoying time, typically bringing with it the ending of educational funding, the challenges of writing up a thesis, and fascinated about what subsequent. It’s all the time best to submit your thesis then begin your future profession; nonetheless, typically life does not pan out that manner. Therefore, must you want to start work earlier than submission we’re blissful to debate versatile strategies of working that will help you sustaining a wholesome work-life stability. This provides you the consolation of commencing a brand new profession, monetary stability and importantly the bandwidth to allow you to complete your write up.Function OverviewThe initiatives we assist are sometimes a part of R&D programmes for top worth, excessive efficiency, and security crucial programs and elements. You’ll apply crucial pondering, and scientific and engineering knowhow to evaluate the power, life, and dynamics of mechanical elements, programs, belongings, and amenities (from the design stage, by life, and decommissioning). The optimisation of the lifecycle, effectivity and efficiency of programs and buildings working in demanding environments goes hand in hand with sustainability, and lots of the initiatives we undertake are pushed by sustainability and the power transition.As a Structural Integrity Specialist in our Asset Integrity Group, you’ll use your experience in integrity and engineering ideas to assist our purchasers develop new designs, resolve their operational issues, justify the life extension of present belongings, and supply the proof that underpins plant security circumstances for security crucial belongings. You can be a key participant main, delivering, and verifying a various vary of rewarding and worthwhile initiatives which assess the structural integrity of a spread of elements/belongings. You’ll use a wide range of strategies from hand calculations to complicated finite aspect evaluation (FEA).You may additionally get the chance to ship and lead initiatives throughout the entire Frazer- Nash portfolio, supporting our prospects within the power, transport, and defence sectors.Our initiatives are very numerous and might final from a number of weeks to a few years of sustained assist. You’ll sometimes be concerned in a number of initiatives at anybody time. You’ll meet and talk with prospects to grasp their necessities and develop your venture plan to ship the specified outcomes and insights.Though primarily a technical position, you can be becoming a member of a consultancy the place we anticipate you can work throughout our enterprise and with our purchasers. Good interpersonal abilities are necessary as is the flexibility to make structured choices, resolve issues, and present initiative and possession internally and externally. Reporting to your Group Chief you can be accountable in your personal work however will probably be supplied with assist from extra skilled engineers when required for venture supply and to information service growth and technique.Firm Atmosphere and TraditionOur individuals are on the very coronary heart of what we do, they’re the explanation our purchasers work with us to resolve a few of their biggest challenges. At Frazer-Nash, we wish all our individuals to really feel they belong, assured within the data that we worth and respect the dedication they’ve made by entrusting their careers and experience to us.We’re dedicated to fostering a working tradition that brings out the easiest in our individuals, no matter their circumstances, identification, or background. We wish our individuals to be themselves, really feel empowered to attain their private {and professional} targets, and know that we respect the distinctive worth they carry to the corporate. In assist of this, we encourage considerate behaviours and work to foster a collaborative working setting.Necessities:Expertise and Attributes:You are finishing or have just lately accomplished your Mechanical or Marine Engineering PhD, so please get involved when you’ve got expertise and an curiosity in a few of the following:

• Have an curiosity in working with our purchasers to use strategies (from state-of-the-art computational strategies to focused and astute hand calculations) to assist optimize the efficiency of buildings in excessive integrity functions.
• Information of structural integrity, defect tolerance, supplies, and life extension.
• Aware of programming languages and packages equivalent to Python, C#, and MATLAB.
• An inherent ability for speaking strategies and outcomes to specialists and non-specialists by writing prime quality stories and presenting technical papers at conferences.
• Be a powerful group participant however with the flexibility to work below minimal supervision.
• Expertise in writing proposals, shopper liaison and enterprise growth.
• Be working in the direction of Chartered Engineer standing.

Because of the nature of the work that Frazer-Nash Consultancy undertake, candidates will probably be required to endure pre-employment screening and should be capable of fulfill clearance standards for UK Nationwide Safety Vetting.Advantages:We offer our individuals with a wonderful advantages package deal that includes:

• Blissful To Speak Versatile Working
• Aggressive wage: [£33,000 – £37,000 + £2,000 joining bonus]
• 25 days’ vacation entitlement
• Vacation sale and buy scheme
• Firm pension scheme
• Focused skilled growth
• Life assurance
• Non-public healthcare membership
• Bonus scheme linked into firm efficiency
• Paid membership charges to an expert establishment
• Assist achieve skilled membership
• Cycle to work scheme
• Season rail ticket mortgage

People from numerous backgrounds are inspired to use, as we consider that range and inclusion are basic to making a dynamic and thriving office tradition.

Anticipated wage

£33000 – 37000 per 12 months

Location

Plymouth

Job date

Fri, 08 Mar 2024 00:17:16 GMT

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