Job Advertisement: Closing Date 26th February 2019
Head of Engineering, Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics
Job Reference : S&E-13330
Location : Jodrell Bank, Cheshire
Closing Date : 26/02/2019
Salary : £51,630 to £61,618 per annum according to experience
Employment Type : Permanent
Faculty / Organisational Unit : Science & Engineering
Division : Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics
Hours Per week : Full time
Contract Duration : Permanent
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Head of Engineering at the University of Manchesters Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics (JBCA), a world leader in radio astronomy research and technological development. JBCA operates the Lovell Telescope and the e-MERLIN/Very-long-baseline interferometry (VLBI) national facility.
Based at the Jodrell Bank Observatory in Cheshire, you will lead a culture of continuous improvement and motivate technical teams designing and developing state of the art systems for national and international astronomical research projects. As a talented engineer with a background in successfully delivering large-scale technology programmes, you will define and acquire new instrumentation projects and apply for sources of external funding in order to realise JBCAs vision.
You will represent JBCA internationally, promoting its facilities and technological developments, whilst developing collaborations with research institutions and stakeholders including the international Square Kilometre Array (SKA) organisation also located at Jodrell Bank.
This will be a challenging yet rewarding role that will play a key part in taking JBCA forward as a world-leading science and engineering facility.
As an equal opportunities employer we welcome applicants from all sections of the community regardless of gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation and transgender status. All appointments are made on merit.
Please note that we are unable to respond to enquiries, accept CVs or applications from Recruitment Agencies.
Enquiries about the vacancy, shortlisting and interviews:
Name: Jane Cox
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General enquiries:
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Tel: 0161 275 4499
Technical support:
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Tel: 0161 850 2004
This vacancy will close for applications at midnight on the closing date.
Further Particulars
https://www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk//candidates/PreviewDocument.aspx?docid=36237GUID=93cd09d6-9100-47b1-a85b-ea72dada752c&jobid=16685
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