Job Description

Background:

The (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:

• Enabling national materials research, collaboration, foresighting and strategy
• Providing access to world-leading facilities and research expertise
• Catalysing industrial collaboration and accelerating translation
• Fostering materials science skills development, innovation training and outreach

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 \xc2\xa3100m research fund across 3 regions - Greater Manchester (GM), the West Midlands and the Glasgow city region (ca \xc2\xa330-35m 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:

• sustainable advanced materials
• AI, data and advanced computing

Royce is seeking to employ 2 Senior Application Scientists with expertise in one or more of the following areas:

• Sustainable Polymers
• Life Cycle Assessment
• Nanomaterials
• Materials modelling & Simulation
• Data Analytics
• Materials 4.0
• Nano-composites
• Catalysis

The Senior Application Scientist is a leader in this wider team - an experienced and versatile researcher who will apply their specialist technical expertise to engage directly with industry and research organisations developing and delivering projects at short notice across the Royce capabilities. They will have a key role in leading and mentoring the wider Application Scientist team, working with the Head of Research and Business Engagement and Royce CTO. They will be focused on the development and delivery of a diverse portfolio of short/sprint/pathfinder projects 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 the Royce, draw on a wider network of expertise across the UK (where necessary), and build relationships both across industry, RTOs and academia. In many cases the Senior Application Scientist will be a principal contact with the industry partner and guide the relevant Application Scientist in providing the necessary advice on the nature, scale and cost of the proposed project.

What you will get in return:

• Fantastic market leading Pension scheme
• Excellent employee health and wellbeing services including an Employee Assistance Programme
• Exceptional starting annual leave entitlement, plus bank holidays
• Additional paid closure over the Christmas period
• Local and national discounts at a range of major retailers

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

Hybrid working arrangements may be considered.

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Enquiries about the vacancy, shortlisting and interviews:

Name: T request an informal discussion about the role with Dr Ania Jolly (HoRBE) please contact Radina Ivanova (RBE Coordinator)

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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.

University of Manchester