Total 8 job vacancies by Durham University

Job Title: Heating Engineer (Gas)

Department Estates and Facilities

Estates Operations

Grade: Grade 6

Salary range:  Up to £36,924 per annum

Working arrangements: Permanent

Full time (35 hours)

Participation in an on-call rota for out of hours cover

(On-call and attendance payments applicable)
Overtime subject to workload

Onsite working only

Closing date: Tuesday 12th November 2024

The Role and Department

As a member of the Estates and Facilities Directorate directly employed labour team, you will undertake mechanical repairs and maintenance work, to an agreed level, in compliance with industry standards, statutory requirements, and relevant codes of practice in a professional and customer-focussed manner.

The Estates and Facilities Directorate provides essential services to Durham University and is responsible for managing, maintaining and developing the infrastructure and building fabric of the various campuses.

Further information about the role and the responsibilities is at the bottom of this job description.

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The Role and Department  

ARC's mission is to deliver a coherent strategy for the computational support of research: enabling research and innovation to be at the forefront of computational practice; enabling academic leadership through the adoption and evolution of leading technology; fostering associated expertise; and enhancing interdisciplinary collaborations. Leading-edge platforms including High Performance Computing, computational and cutting-edge data analytics methods, and growth and retention of vital capacity in research software engineering and technical R&D are at the core of this endeavour.

We organise our activity under three main pillars:

1. Research Computing Platforms

2. Research Software Engineering

3. Developing researcher computational skills

Which is delivered by the Administration, Research Computing Platforms (RCP) and Research Software Engineering (RSE) teams

The Research Computing Platforms (RCP) team provides facilities, training and support for people, across the University, engaged in computationally demanding research. Join us and:

Provide HPC & Cloud facilities and support the people who use them to:

· Run large- or small-scale simulations, data analyses and machine learning workloads

· Have the capability to tackle problems difficult or impossible to achieve on most desktops or laptops

· Exploit the capacity to run many tasks at the same time

Create strong collegiate relationships with academics and combine technical knowledge with the needs of different research domains to develop, improve and maintain services designed to optimise researcher time to solution by making services that:

· Are stable and secure

· Are easy to use, featureful and flexible in response to changing needs

· Deliver fast and predictable performance

Share specialist knowledge to colleagues within the research community, consultation and ensure effective knowledge transfer both across the institution and represent the University externally on matters of expertise.

Contribute to both local and regional/national services, such as the Hamilton HPC system, our experimental Mosaic research cloud and the EPSRC tier-2 HPC system "Bede", working with teams in Computing and Information Services (CIS), Estates and/or external providers as appropriate.

We are a support unit that spans all Faculties across the University and encourage applications from experienced individuals from a diverse range of domains.

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The Role and the Department

The Projects & Infrastructure team is responsible for construction project delivery across the Durham University estate. The team manage a large capital programme from inception to completion, delivering projects on budget, on programme and to a high standard of quality.

The Assistant Mechanical Building Services Engineer will support Mechanical Engineers and the wider team in the effective management, provision, alteration and upgrade of the University's mechanical infrastructure.

Forming necessary links between all stakeholders you will contribute to the successful delivery of a range of projects/programmes ensuring that all works are carried out to the required quality standard, adhere to best practice principles and are compliant with current statutory/safety requirements and approved codes of practice. The improvement in facilities supports academic research and enhances the student experience.

The Estates and Facilities Directorate provides essential services to Durham University and is responsible for managing, maintaining and developing the infrastructure and building fabric of the various campuses.

From early 2025 the base location for this role will change from our Durham City Centre site to our exciting new professional services hub based at Boldon House. Boldon House is situated on the outskirts of Durham near the Arnison Centre in Pity Me. Boldon House will bring a number of professional services teams together in a vibrant office environment which supports collaborative working and is designed to embrace hybrid working. To find out more about this project, please visit this webpage: Boldon House - Durham University.

Development Role

This is a development role, and you will develop mechanical building services engineering and construction project management skills, leadership attributes and skills. You will undertake a development programme leading to a formal Building Services Engineering qualification.

The qualification will form part of a development plan focusing on the requirements of the Grade 7 role, while also considering your individual needs. This plan will be regularly reviewed and forms the basis of the assessment to move to the Grade 7 role.

Upon successful completion of your development programme and plan, you will move into a Grade 7 Mechanical Building Services Engineer role, the job description for which can be found HERE.

If you are unable to meet the full requirements and performance levels of the Grade 7 post at the end of the development process, you may be retained in the Grade 6 role.

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The Role 

Applications are invited for an Assistant Software Engineer in real-time control for Adaptive Optics (AO) systems for the ELT and other instrument projects.

Aspects of the development of the real-time control system will include: 

• Working on low latency 'hard' real time control system for both HARMONI and MOSAIC, implementing and optimising the various adaptive optics control schemes required by the instruments on the selected hardware architecture. 
• Development of the data, telemetry, command, and control interfaces to match standards required by the observatory.
• Working with a wide variety of hardware devices including high-speed cameras and deformable mirrors, and the candidate will be expected to develop and test software interfaces to these hardware devices.
• Optionally, contributing to the implementation of high-performance numerical algorithms in C/C++ and / or Python to process and update parameters for the low latency system.
• The applicant will also be expected to contribute to CfAI's ongoing research program developing new software for techniques and technologies that will enable the next generation of adaptive optics real-time control systems. These will be for use not only within astronomy but also other fields such as laser communications or microscopy where adaptive optics can be used.
• The applicant will have the opportunity to contribute to high quality publications in refereed journals as a result of participating new research areas within the field of real-time AO control.
• When working on large instrumentation projects such as HARMONI and MOSAIC the applicant will be expected to contribute to any project deliverables (such as preparing design documentation or user manuals) and adhere to project software development standards. 

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Job Title: Estates Maintenance Manager (Mechanical Building Services)

Department Estates and Facilities Directorate

Estates Operations

Grade: Grade 7

Salary range:  £37,099-£44,263

Working arrangements: Full time (nominal 35 hours)

Permanent

Evenings and weekend working, as business needs

There may be a requirement to participation in an out-of-hours on-call rota, relevant to area of work

Hybrid working (minimum of two days per week onsite, depending on business needs, after an initial training/induction period)

Closing date: Sunday 23rd June 2024

The Role and Department

As Mechanical Maintenance Engineer (Building Services), you will be responsible for providing a highly effective, efficient and customer focused mechanical building services engineering maintenance and minor works service to the University. You will be part of the Estates Operations, Engineering Maintenance Team, and will report to the Senior Mechanical Maintenance Engineer.

You will be responsible for managing maintenance programmes including compliance assurance and statutory inspection of Mechanical building services assets across the University's estate as will be responsible for undertaking planned and reactive maintenance identified within the various maintenance programmes.

The Estates and Facilities Directorate provides essential services to Durham University and is responsible for managing, maintaining and developing the infrastructure and building fabric of the various campuses.

Please see our brochure for this role, HERE.

Further information about the role and the responsibilities is at the bottom of this job description.

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The Department of Engineering at Durham University is currently undergoing a period of strategic growth and now seeks to appoint a talented individual to the role of Assistant Professor in Control Engineering. We welcome applications from outstanding individuals with research and teaching interests in one or more of the Control Engineering specialisations including, but not limited to, Systems Modelling and Prediction for Electronics and Communications, Machine/Deep Learning for/in Control, Cyber Physical Systems and Internet of Things, Network Control, Integration or Intersection of Control, Communications and/or Computing, or other relevant areas of Control. Theoreticians, experimentalists, and modellers are all welcome to apply. The successful candidate will also be involved in research-led teaching in engineering.

This is an exciting opportunity to join an expanding, unified Engineering Department which is recognised as one of the very best in the UK, with a reputation for excellence in teaching, research and employability of our graduates. In the REF2021 exercise, 95% of our Engineering outputs were graded 3* or 4* and the Department is committed to an ethos of research-led education at all levels of our taught programmes. Engineering at Durham University was ranked 5th in The Guardian University Guide 2024, 7th in The Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2023 and 5th in The Complete University Guide 2024. We were ranked 2nd in Engineering behind only Cambridge in a recent Institute for Fiscal Studies report on the difference in graduate earnings by UK university choice. We are a scholarly community that is open, representative and diverse: our commitment to this is expressed through work of the Department's Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Group, and our Athena Swan Bronze award.

The Department of Engineering demonstrates significant depth of research excellence across a range of disciplines, with activities that are currently concentrated around three Research Challenge areas: Sustainable Infrastructure, Future Energy Systems and Advanced Materials, Electronics and Communications. Thematically, our research is split into eight Research Nodes which group together our day-to-day activities and expertise, with this role nominally falling into the Communications and THz node. We are particularly proud of the collaborative interdisciplinary nature of our research, which also includes strong industrial partnerships.

We are keen to hear from candidates who have already achieved Chartered Engineer status. As a minimum, if not already professionally qualified, candidates will be expected to demonstrate the ability and desire to become Chartered.

Job Title: Assistant Professor in Control Engineering

Department: Engineering

Responsible to: Head of Department

Salary Grade: Assistant Professor (Grade 8) - £45,585 - £54,395

Working arrangements: Full Time (we will consider requests for flexible working arrangements)

Closing date: 7 March 2024

Start Date: Ideally 1 September or 1 October 2024

Apply link: https://durham.taleo.net/careersection/du_ext/jobdetail.ftl?job=23002198&tz=GMT+00:00&tzname=Europe/London

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The Department of Engineering at Durham University is currently undergoing a period of strategic growth and now seeks to appoint a talented individual to the role of Professor in Electrical Engineering. We welcome applications from those with research and teaching interests in the broad field of experimental power electronics, machines and drives. We are particularly eager to hear from candidates with a focus on the application of electrical engineering in the fields of renewable energy, space, aerospace, power distribution and reliability of novel electrical machines. The successful candidate will also be involved in research-led teaching in engineering.

This is an exciting opportunity to join an expanding, unified Engineering Department which is recognised as one of the very best in the UK, with a reputation for excellence in teaching, research and employability of our graduates. In the REF2021 exercise, 95% of our Engineering outputs were graded 3* or 4* and the Department is committed to an ethos of research-led education at all levels of our taught programmes. Engineering at Durham University was ranked 5th in The Guardian University Guide 2024, 7th in The Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2023 and 5th in The Complete University Guide 2024. We were ranked 2nd in Engineering behind only Cambridge in a recent Institute for Fiscal Studies report on the difference in graduate earnings by UK university choice. We are a scholarly community that is open, representative and diverse: our commitment to this is expressed through work of the Department's Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Group, and our Athena Swan Bronze award.

The Department of Engineering demonstrates significant depth of research excellence across a range of disciplines, with activities that are currently concentrated around three Research Challenge areas: Sustainable Infrastructure, Future Energy Systems and Advanced Materials, Electronics and Communications. Thematically, our research is split into eight Research Nodes which group together our day-to-day activities and expertise, with this role nominally falling into the Electrical Power node. We are particularly proud of the collaborative interdisciplinary nature of our research, which also includes strong industrial partnerships.

We are keen to hear from candidates who have already achieved Chartered Engineer status. As a minimum, if not already professionally qualified, candidates will be expected to demonstrate the ability and desire to become Chartered.

Job Title: Professor in Electrical Engineering

Vacancy Reference: ENGI23-7

Department: Engineering

Responsible to: Head of Department

Salary Grade: Professor (Grade 10) - negotiable, subject to experience

Working arrangements: Full Time (we will consider requests for flexible working arrangements)

Closing date: 29 February 2024

Start Date: Ideally 1 September or 1 October 2024

Apply link: https://durham.taleo.net/careersection/du_ext/jobdetail.ftl?job=23002196&tz=GMT+00:00&tzname=Europe/London

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The Department of Chemistry at Durham University seeks to appoint a talented individual to the role of Assistant Professor. We welcome applications from those with research and teaching interests in the broad field of Organic Chemistry. We are particularly keen to hear from applicants who will strengthen and/or complement our existing strengths in the broad area of chemical biology including medicinal chemistry, agrochemistry, biomaterials and biocatalysis.

This post offers an exciting opportunity to make a major contribution to the development of internationally-excellent research and teaching. The successful candidate will join a grouping with established links with colleagues in Biosciences, a number of whom are co-located in the Chemistry Department. Staff working at this interface have access to Durham's superb facilities sited in both Chemistry and Biosciences including molecular and structural biology and biophysical instruments, cell culture laboratories, imaging suite and plant growth facilities. The appointee will be expected to cultivate an internationally-leading research group and to engage in the full Departmental range of teaching at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels, including the development of new postgraduate courses (PGT and PGR) in chemical biology.

Durham Chemistry hosts multiple EPSRC Centres for Doctoral Training (CDTs): The Molecular Sciences for Medicine CDT (MoSMed), The Soft Matter for Formulation and Industrial Innovation CDT, (SOFI2) and the CDT in Renewable Energy Northeast Universities (ReNU). There is a strong culture of collaboration within the department and with other departments, and institutes within the University, including the Biophysical Sciences Institute, the Durham Energy Institute and the Institute for Data Science. There are also other multidisciplinary centres of excellence in the university that the appointee can interact with including the Centre for Global Infectious Diseases, the Durham Crop Centre and centres in Sustainable Chemistry and Soft Matter. We also have strong links with many Universities, Research Centres and Companies in the UK and overseas.

For more information, see http://www.durham.ac.uk/chemistry

Our collective aim at Durham is to create an open and inclusive environment where everyone can reach their full potential and we believe our staff should reflect the diversity of the global community in which we work. 

As a University, equality, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) are a key part of the University's Strategy and a central part of everything we do.  We actively work towards providing an environment where our staff and students can study, work and live in a community which is supportive and inclusive. It's important to us that all of our colleagues are aligned to both our values and commitment to EDI. We welcome and encourage applications from members of groups who are under-represented in our work force including disabled people, women, and black, Asian and minority ethnic communities.

The successful applicant will, ideally, be in post by 01 October 2024.

The closing date for applications is 10th Decemeber 2023 with interviews for shortlisted candidates provisionally scheduled for February 13th and 14th 2024.

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