Research Associate

The successful applicant will be joining Cardiff University, one of the UK’s leading research led universities, as a Research Associate on the METAL-SoLVER mine water treatment project. The successful candidate will take a key role within the METAL-SoLVER team, undertaking geochemical monitoring of pilot mine water treatment systems and mine water treatment research in the laboratory and at several locations across England and Wales. The post will involve extensive fieldwork which will involve driving to field locations in England and Wales to undertake water sampling. Thus, the post requires a willingness to undertake both laboratory and lone field work, and the flexibility to undertake long working days where necessary to deliver project objectives, and a full clean driving license.

This post is full time, available from 1st November 2021 and is fixed term until 31 October 2022.

Salary: £34,304 - £40,927 per annum (Grade 6)

Job ref:  12384BR

For informal enquiries about the post please contact Dr Devin Sapsford- [email protected]  

For further details about working at Cardiff School of Engineering please contact Bev Jones [email protected]

Date advert posted: Friday, 17 September 2021

Closing date: Friday, 8 October 2021 

This post has previously been advertised to employees of Cardiff University only. We now invite external applications.

Please NOTE: Cardiff University reserves the right to close this vacancy early should sufficient applications be received.

The School of Engineering holds an Athena SWAN Bronze Award that recognises good employment practice and a commitment to develop the careers of women working in science. Cardiff University is an equal opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital status, or pregnancy and maternity. For this vacancy we actively encourage women to apply. We will also consider proposals for flexible working or job share opportunities.

“Cardiff University is a signatory to the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA), which means that in hiring and promotion decisions we will evaluate applicants on the quality of their research, not publication metrics or the identity of the journal in which the research is published. More information is available at: https://www.cardiff.ac.uk/research/our-research-environment/integrity-and-ethics/responsible-research-assessment”