UV Testing Engineer

Updated: 10 months ago
Location: Didcot, ENGLAND
Job Type: FullTime
Deadline: 18 Jun 2023

Job Title: UV Testing Engineer

Salary: £25,702 or £31,931 gross per annum Dependent on Experience *

Location: RAL, Harwell Campus- Oxfordshire

Contract Type: 6 Months Fixed Term Contract

Hours: Full Time (We understand the importance of work-life balance, and are happy to discuss the possibility of flexible working with applicants however this role is based on-site 4 days per week)

Come and do the kind of engineering that made you want to be an engineer. Stretch your technical skills whilst building human understanding. Promote sustainability and create new materials, and alongside world-leading scientists and technologist, shape projects that improve lives and daily life in the UK and far beyond.

Put Simply, come and discover the impact you can make when you’re equipped, encouraged and inspired to perform to your very best.

As a UV testing engineer you will carry out a programme of tests, research, and investigations to support development. You will play a critical role in helping to advance a breakthrough UV lamp technology created by scientists at STFC’s Central Laser Facility.

The technology is a novel technique to generate UV light that achieves higher intensity and lower cost without toxic chemicals and achieving forty times the lifetime of industry-standard mercury lamps. This low-cost, scalable technique has the potential to disrupt many industries including water treatment and air sterilisation.

Operating from within the dynamic and fast-paced Innovation team, you will conduct key experiments and provide support to our mission to commercialise a unique UV light source and realise economic and societal impact.

The intention is to create a spin-out company before the end of 2023 centred on this technology and there is scope for your involvement in developing a new business.

Key duties and responsibilities include:

  • Conduct an experimental programme with the prototype to de-risk and support development to a minimum viable product (MVP), the experiments include:
    • Stabilisation and measurement of baseline performance of the prototype
    • Optimising the source to maximise the output of UV
    • Provide input to guide further design and guide the experimental programme.

Qualifications, Knowledge, Skills, Experience, and any special requirements:

Essential:

  • Degree in a STEM subject or equivalent experience
  • Able to manage an experimental campaign in the laboratory

Desirable:

  • Experience working in a laboratory environment [Essential for Band D]
  • Experience with any of the following areas [At least one area of experience essential for Band D]
    • Spectrometry
    • UV Photonics or optics
    • Microwave engineering (particularly high power)
    • Mechanical or electrical engineering
  • Good communication skills
  • Experience in working in an early-stage start-up
  • Experience in supporting the development of plans to commercialise new technologies


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