Autonomous Systems Engineer (KTP Associate)

Job description

ABOUT THE ROLE

This is a great opportunity to apply modern autonomous systems engineering and machine learning approaches to develop and deploy a system for autonomous inspection of wind turbines using unmanned aerial vehicles. You will be delivering this ambitious innovation project and become a key part of the future strategy of Renewable Field Services Ltd, working with them at their base in Gateshead.

You will lead a transformation project - a Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) - to develop an autonomous technology for optimum and accurate inspection of wind turbines using unmanned aerial vehicles. Working at Renewable Field Services offices in Gateshead, you will work with an academic team from the Mechanical and Construction Engineering department at Northumbria University, who will provide support to meet the project aims.

The opportunities available to you:

• Leading and delivering a challenging and strategic R&D project that directly impacts the business
• Support from an academic team with specialist knowledge and experience relevant to the project
• Potential to be retained in a permanent position within the company at the end of the project
• £5,000 professional training and personal development budget
• Potential for performance-related salary increments
• Leadership and Management training from Ashorne Hill

For full details of qualifications, skills and experience required for the post, please review the Role Description document . Please also note the specific application document requirements below.

This is a fixed term role for a period of 30 months.

ABOUT THE TEAM

Find out more about Renewable Field Services Ltd: https://www.renewable-fs.com

Find out more about Mechanical and Construction Engineering at Northumbria University: https://www.northumbria.ac.uk/about-us/academic-departments/mechanical-and-construction-engineering/research/

If you would like an informal discussion about the role, please contact Dr Hamed Farokhi at [email protected]

ABOUT YOU

Further information about the requirements of the role is available in the person specification .

To apply for this vacancy please click 'Apply Now', and submit:

1. A 2-page CV, highlighting how your skills and experience meet the project criteria (set out in the person specification document).

2. A short video (max 3 minutes): this is your opportunity to tell us how your skills and experience are suitable for the role. You may like to describe/demonstrate an example project, outlining the aim of the project and explaining your role and the tools/packages/frameworks used.

ABOUT US

At Northumbria, we embrace tomorrow. We pursue new thinking, forge new partnerships, create, and exchange new knowledge, and find new solutions. Our inspirational academics, partners and students work together to tackle tomorrow's challenges head on. We are ready for the future whatever it may hold.

Awarded the title of University of the Year in the 2022 Times Higher Education Awards, Northumbria University is a research-intensive modern university with a global reputation for academic excellence.

Northumbria recorded the biggest rise of any UK university for research power in the Research Excellence Framework for the second time in 2021 and is now ranked top 25 for this measure.

One of the largest universities in the UK with over 37,000 students from 137 countries, filled with world-leading research, award-winning partnerships, and students at the heart of an outstanding experience, Northumbria is a new kind of excellent university. Discover more about us .

Northumbria University is a great place to work. We empower our exceptional people to achieve shared ambitions and promote a positive work life balance. We offer a wide range of benefits including excellent pension schemes, flexible working, a generous holiday entitlement, continued commitment to your learning and development and more .

Our Northumbria Values are guiding principles that define who we are, what we do and what is important to us. Our Values are: Academic Excellence; Innovation; Inclusivity; Collaboration; and Ambition.

Our Behaviours describe how we do things and how we work together at Northumbria, reflecting our culture and our decision-making. Our Behaviours are: We listen and learn, we support one another to success, we respect everyone and their contributions, we trust in ourselves and each other and we are bold.

Our Behaviours were co-created by colleagues from a range of roles across the University, who worked collaboratively to consider what it feels like to work for Northumbria, and where we need to continue to transform together to achieve what's important to us.

Please visit Our Values and Behaviours page to find out more.

We are an on-campus organisation where colleagues work regular patterns of hours and on campus, with some flexibility on the timing of their hours and the location of their work in discussion with their manager. Our campus locations include City Campus Newcastle and Coach Lane Campus Newcastle.

Northumbria University is committed to creating an inclusive culture where we take pride in, and value, the diversity of our staff. We encourage and welcome applications from all members of the community. The University holds a bronze Athena Swan award in recognition of our commitment to advancing gender equality, we are a Disability Confident Leader, a member of the Race Equality Charter and are participating in the Stonewall Diversity Champion Programme. We also hold the HR Excellence in Research award for implementing the concordat supporting the career Development of Researchers and are members of the Euraxess initiative to deliver information and support to professional researchers.

The University has implemented a range of flexible working arrangements, and we are happy to explore candidate requirements as part of the recruitment process.

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