Background:
The Henry Royce Institute (Royce), a UKRI-funded national institute, supports advanced materials research and innovation. With its Hub at The University of Manchester, the Institute has spokes at ten Partner and Associate organisations: the Universities of Sheffield, Leeds, Liverpool, Cambridge, Cranfield, Oxford and Imperial College London, as well as at the UK Atomic Energy Authority, the National Nuclear Laboratory and the Advanced Forming Research Centre Catapult. Royce’s vision of ‘advanced materials for a sustainable society’ is delivered through:
The Project
There is a major economic opportunity for Greater Manchester (GM) to fill the gap in companies able to provide sustainable materials for manufacturing supply chains, and reduce market failure in industries’ ability to scale up and adopt sustainable materials in manufacturing applications. GM Combined Authority (CA) and Rochdale Development Agency (RDA) have plans to realise this ambition through the creation of the Sustainable Materials Translational Research Centre (SMTRC), which will be built in Atom valley/Rochdale.
Supply Chain Pilots for the SMTRC (p-SMTRC) is a multimillion InnovateUK funded programme as a part of the two-year Innovation Accelerator pilot of £100m research fund across 3 regions - Greater Manchester (GM), the West Midlands and the Glasgow city region (ca £30-35m for GM) from the government’s Levelling Up plan. This programme will support the development of SMTRC leveraging GM's existing strength in materials research, alongside the UK's High Value Manufacturing Catapult's (HVMC's) competency in building supply chain capability. The consortium, comprised of Rochdale Development Agency (RDA), University of Manchester (UoM) Institutes (Royce, Graphene Engineering and Innovation Centre (GEIC), Sustainable Materials Innovation (SMI) Hub), National Physics Laboratory (NPL), Science and Technologies Facilities Council (UKRI-STFC), and the UK's High Value Manufacturing (HVM) Catapults, will exploit existing infrastructure within GM and nationally to catalyse cross-sector and cross-supply chain collaborations to drive commercialisation of developments from two of the three UK technology families in which GM has identified world-leading research positions:
Royce is seeking to employ 3 Application Scientists with expertise in one or more of the following areas:
The Application Scientist posts are substantive new roles within Royce. The post holders will be hands-on, versatile researchers who will apply their specialist technical expertise to conduct projects at short notice, providing the capability/resource to react quickly and flexibly to short-term projects. They will form part of an interconnected, diverse team who will have the opportunity to identify and respond to clear demand from corporates and SMEs, both through direct contact and via other national research infrastructure, such as the HVM Catapult network. They will be focused on the development and delivery of short/sprint/pathfinder projects and consultancy work based around the capabilities of Royce’s world-leading infrastructure and national network of research expertise. In doing this they will leverage the capability across the Technology Platforms (facilities and people) within Royce, draw on a wider network of expertise across the UK (where necessary), and build relationships both across industry and academia. In many cases they will be the lead contact with industrial partners and provide advice on the nature, scale and costs of proposed projects.
What you will get in return:
As an equal opportunities employer we welcome applicants from all sections of the community regardless of age, sex, gender (or gender identity), ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation and transgender status. All appointments are made on merit.
Our University is positive about flexible working – you can find out more here
Hybrid working arrangements may be considered.
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Enquiries about the vacancy, shortlisting and interviews:
Name: To request an informal discussion about the role with Dr Ania Jolly, please contact Radina Ivanova
Email: radina.ivanova@manchester.ac.uk
General enquiries:
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This vacancy will close for applications at midnight on the closing date.
Please see the link below for the Further Particulars document which contains the person specification criteria.
