Location: | Bedfordshire, Cranfield |
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Salary: | £32,039 to £37,337 per annum |
Hours: | Full Time |
Contract Type: | Fixed-Term/Contract |
Placed On: | 27th September 2024 |
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Closes: | 25th October 2024 |
Job Ref: | 4922 |
Fixed Term Contract for 18 months
Research Assistant (if Masters obtained): £32,039 per annum
Research Assistant (if close to completing PhD): £34,450 per annum
Research Fellow (if PhD obtained): £37,337 per annum
Location: Cranfield, Bedfordshire
We welcome applications from passionate, skilled, committed, prospective to join our creative team in the development and testing of a novel toilet system.
About the Role
You will be working within an established research team developing a reinvented toilet system for multi-households - this will require a combination of responsibilities that range from design, build, testing, maintenance, and general upkeep of a novel toilet technology. The level of duties will vary depending on the level you are appointed at. Please see job description for further details.
About You
You will have experience of research using both qualitative and quantitative methods. With excellent communication and time management skills, ensuring that milestones and deliverables are achieved to time and to high quality. Superb oral and written communication skills and presentation skills, and good technical writing skills in English. Including the ability to produce high quality manuscripts. Please note, due to the requirements of the project, international travel will be expected, and you should therefore have no travel restrictions on your passport.
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.
The Centre for Design Engineering is made up of a community of inventors, practitioners, and educators with a growing international reputation and track record. The community is expanding its visibility as a cross-cutting multidisciplinary offering across Cranfield University with the aim to develop and sustain high quality educational and industry collaboration experiences for the next generation of professional design engineers that intend to create breakthrough clean-green technological solutions of the future.
Learn more about the Design Engineer Community
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.
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 Professor Leon Williams, Professor of Design-Led Innovation and Head of Centre for Design Engineering, on (T): +44 1234 75 8531 or (E): l.williams@cranfield.ac.uk
To apply please click above 'Apply' Button. Please do not hesitate to contact us for further details on E: peoplerecruitment@cranfield.ac.uk. Please quote reference number 4922.
Closing date: 25 October 2024
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