Flood Resilience Product Development Design Engineer

University of Derby’s College of Science & Engineering in partnership with Whitehouse Construction Co. Ltd are offering an exciting career-development opportunity to manage and deliver a challenging strategic Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) project. Based at Whitehouse Construction Co’s premises in Derby, you will be employed by the University as a KTP Associate but work under the terms and conditions of the company.

Using your knowledge and skills to support the business and achieve specific project aims, you will receive on-going support from a Whitehouse Construction Supervisor, Academic Supervisor and Academic Lead from the University of Derby to help you deliver. A personal training and development budget will also be available for you to access, as well as receiving access to the same training opportunities and facilities as University staff.

You will be responsible for project managing the design, modelling and development of new flood resistant products with the aim of achieving certification to BS851188:2019. This structured development project will require the post holder to work across a range of departments to facilitate materials selection, including lifecycle assessment and design for manufacture outputs. Instrumental to this is detailed 3D models of products and associated components with SolidWorks or AutoCAD and the use of Finite Element Modelling (FEM) and Computational Fluid Dynamics Modelling (CFD).

This is a dynamic role that presents an opportunity for an ambitious candidate to play an influential role in Flood Resilient product development that will enable use of our internally developed components to create new flood resistant products.

About Whitehouse Construction Co Ltd

Whitehouse Construction is an SME providing Civil Engineering and Property Flood Resilience Services. Our head office is in Ashbourne, Derbyshire and our Property Flood Resilience operations based in Derby. We are sole supplier of PFR to the Environment Agency within the Midlands Region and are market leaders in the PFR field. This placement is an amazing opportunity to be part of an emerging sector bringing societal benefits to the UK in line with UN’s sustainability goals of, Climate action and the development of sustainable communities.  

This Placement will be exclusively based at our Manufacturing Centre in Derby with the need to travel occasionally to sites, conferences, and suppliers.   

About University of Derby

The University of Derby is an extraordinary educational environment and because we specialise in identifying and developing individual potential, you can be confident you'll receive all the help and encouragement you need to succeed in your role. We offer some of the best university facilities in the UK, investing more than £200 million in facilities in the last 10 years.

About Knowledge Transfer Partnership

This full-time post is part-funded by the UK Government’s KTP programme. A KTP is a three-way project between a graduate, an organisation and a university. KTP is one of the UK’s largest graduate recruitment programmes and has been placing graduates on challenging, high profile projects for almost 45 years.  In addition to a competitive salary and core KTP development training, you will have a dedicated budget of £4,000 for further training and career development. To find out more about the scheme visit: ktp-uk.org/graduates

For informal enquiries please contact Hirbod Varasteh, Lecturer in Civil Engineering via h.varasteh@derby.ac.uk.

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