Senior Design Engineer or Design Engineer

About the Role

The School is seeking to appoint a design engineer or senior design engineer to support its Particle Physics research. The role will focus on the design of instruments and tooling required to support our detector development programme, including contributions to international experiments such as the upgrade of ATLAS at the CERN High Luminosity Large Hadron Collider, future experiments, and our generic detector development portfolio.

About You

The successful candidate will have a degree in a relevant STEM field, or equivalent experience, demonstrate excellent knowledge of mechanical design and engineering.

About the School

This role is in the School of Physical and Chemical Sciences, a part of the Science and Engineering Faculty at Queen Mary University of London (QMUL). The School maintains a tradition of outstanding research in ground-breaking fields in Physics and Astronomy and in Chemistry, where our research is internationally excellent.

About Queen Mary

At QMUL, we believe that a diversity of ideas helps us achieve the previously unthinkable.

Throughout our history, we’ve fostered social justice and improved lives through academic excellence. And we continue to live and breathe this spirit today, not because it’s simply ‘the right thing to do’ but for what it helps us achieve and the intellectual brilliance it delivers.

We continue to embrace diversity of thought and opinion in everything we do, in the belief that when views collide, disciplines interact, and perspectives intersect, truly original thought takes form.

Benefits

We offer competitive salaries, access to a generous pension scheme, 30 days’ leave per annum (pro-rata for part-time/fixed-term), a season ticket loan scheme and access to a comprehensive range of personal and professional development opportunities. In addition, we offer a range of work life balance and family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements, and campus facilities including an on-site nursery at the Mile End campus.

The post is based at the Mile End Campus in London. It is a full time permanent position. The starting salary will be Grade 5 (in the range of £40,386 - £47,414) or Grade 6 (in the range of £50,047- £55,805 per annum, inclusive of London Allowance depending on experience.

Queen Mary’s commitment to our diverse and inclusive community is embedded in our appointments processes. Reasonable adjustments will be made at each stage of the recruitment process for any candidate with a disability. We are open to considering applications from candidates wishing to work flexibly.

Informal enquiries should be addressed to Prof. Adrian Bevan at a.j.bevan@qmul.ac.uk or on +44 (0) 020 7882 6549.

To apply for the role, please click the ‘apply’ button.

The closing date for applications is 27th February 2023.

Interviews are expected to be held shortly thereafter.

The Department of Physics and Astronomy is proud to hold IoP JUNO Champion status and Athena SWAN silver status and have a number of supportive policies in place to facilitate a diverse and inclusive working environment within the school https://www.qmul.ac.uk/spa/about-us/. We have policies to support staff returning from long-term absence, for flexible arrangements for staff with parental responsibilities and for childcare support. The University holds an Athena SWAN silver award. We strongly encourage applications from women and under-represented groups.

Valuing Diversity & Committed to Equality.

Advert information