This full-time 24-month Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) project specifically seeks to optimise corrosion prevention and enhance control algorithms to reduce the environmental and financial burden of installing new cables.

This unique opportunity will bring together an exciting combination of expertise in electronic & electrical engineering and subsea chemistry to understand electrochemical corrosion, working alongside academics from one of the UK’s leading research-intensive universities. 

Due to funding requirements this role must start by September 2025 and will be based 5 days a week at the Viper’s premises in Portishead near Bristol.

Whilst working as a KTP Associate, you will lead this high profile and strategically meaningful project, allowing you to apply your academic achievements in an industrial setting. You will receive practical and formal training, gain marketable skills, broaden your knowledge and expertise within an industrially relevant project, and be supported by both industrial and academic mentors. You will be responsible for engaging with and embedding new knowledge within both the business partner and the University.

Viper Innovations Ltd supply electrical monitoring and asset integrity solutions for global industries including subsea and rail. They provide award winning products and services offering practical solutions for their clients real world problems.  

The ideal candidate will have:

• BEng/Meng or equivalent in Electronic Engineering or a related discipline;
• A PhD relevant to Electronic Material Science or extensive R&D experience within industry;
• Experience and/or qualification in Electrochemistry;
• Experience of experimentation and/or experimental methods;
• Capability in driving initiatives forward;
• Strong project management and problem-solving skills;
• Good communication and organisation skills.

The post will offer the following benefits:

• To build your professional career at a dynamic, ambitious and forward-looking company;
• There might be the opportunity to join the business as a permanent employee; 
• Management training and mentoring by an Innovate UK KT Adviser;
• Access to University resources to complete the project;
• A generous personal development budget and time allowance. 

It is essential that you understand how KTP works with business and the University, and the vital role you will play. For information about KTPs:

There is a two-stage interview process, held on different dates with an in-person interview at Viper in Portishead.

Any questions about this role email partnerships@bath.ac.uk

What we can offer you:

• a very generous employer contributory pension scheme
• a wide range of personal and professional development opportunities
• a number of support options available for new and existing staff to help with the cost of some immigration expenses which you may be eligible for: Relocation allowance, Visa Reimbursement, Interest-Free Loan.

Find out more about our benefits.

We consider ourselves to be a university where difference is celebrated, respected and encouraged. We have an excellent international reputation with staff from over 60 different nations and have made a positive commitment towards gender equality and intersectionality receiving a Silver Athena SWAN award. We truly believe that diversity of experience, perspectives, and backgrounds will lead to a better environment for our employees and students, so we encourage applications from all genders, backgrounds, and communities, particularly from under-represented groups, and value the positive impact that will have on the university. We are committed to maintaining a safe and secure environment for our students, staff, and community by reinforcing our  commitment.

We are very proud to be an autism friendly university and are an accredited Disability Confident Leader; committed to building disability confidence and supporting disabled staff.

Find out from our staff what makes the ºÚÁÏÍø³Ô¹Ï±¬ÁÏ a great place to work. Follow us and on Twitter for more information.

Closing Date: 27 Jan 2025

Department: Education & Research

Salary: £35,000 to £45,000 per annum, depending on qualifications and experience.
Full time (37.5 hours per week) fixed term for 24 months

The Centre of Excellence in Water Based Early Warning Systems for Health Protection is working to transform public and environmental health management, establishing the first Urban Living Lab facility; a state-of-the-art digital water sensing platform, training base and ideas hub. The centre combines sensing, mathematical modelling, data analytics and informatics with epidemiology and public engagement tools to provide low-cost and real-time community-wide testing of population health and the environment.

Applications are invited for a Post-doctoral Research Associate position to develop omics based diagnostic tools to measure indicators of disease (from genes, metabolites through to proteins) via urban water profiling with state-of-the-art hyphenated chromatography and mass spectrometry techniques (QTOF, MALDI-TOF-TOF and triple quadrupole) as well as dPCR technology. 

Applications are invited for a Research Associate in Omics Research in the Centre of Excellence in Water Based Early Warning Systems for Health Protection. 

We’re working to transform public and environmental health management, establishing the first Urban Living Lab facility; a state-of-the-art digital water sensing platform, training base and ideas hub. The centre combines sensing, mathematical modelling, data analytics and informatics with epidemiology and public engagement tools to provide low-cost and real-time community-wide testing of population health and the environment. 

About you

Our ideal candidate will have:

• experience in water, mass spectrometry and data engineer
• a PhD (or equivalent) in mass spectrometry related research areas such as proteomics and metabolomics.
• excellent communication skills
• potential to publish in high quality journals
• demonstrated awareness of latest developments in this field of research

The successful candidate will work closely with other Research Associates, academic leads, technical specialists (water, mass spectrometry and data engineer) and PhD students in the Centre to deliver a unique water-based early warning system for (infectious) disease diagnostics.

Further information

What we can offer you:

• a very generous employer contributory pension scheme
• generous annual leave allowance with an additional 5 discretionary days so that you can enjoy a positive work life balance
• we are a family-friendly University and with an increasingly agile workforce, are open to flexible working arrangements
• an excellent reward package that recognises the talents of our diverse workforce
• a wide range of personal and professional development opportunities
• a number of support options available for new and existing staff to help with the cost of some immigration expenses which you may be eligible for: Relocation allowance, Visa Reimbursement, Interest-Free Loan.

Find out more about our benefits.

We consider ourselves to be a university where difference is celebrated, respected and encouraged. We have an excellent international reputation with staff from over 60 different nations and have made a positive commitment towards gender equality and intersectionality receiving a Silver Athena SWAN award. We truly believe that diversity of experience, perspectives, and backgrounds will lead to a better environment for our employees and students, so we encourage applications from all genders, backgrounds, and communities, particularly from under-represented groups, and value the positive impact that will have on the university. We are committed to maintaining a safe and secure environment for our students, staff, and community by reinforcing our  commitment.

We are very proud to be an autism friendly university and are an accredited Disability Confident Leader; committed to building disability confidence and supporting disabled staff.

Find out from our staff what makes the ºÚÁÏÍø³Ô¹Ï±¬ÁÏ a great place to work. Follow us and on Twitter for more information.

Closing Date: 01 Jan 2025

Department: Education & Research

Salary: The salary range for Research Assistant is £30,505 to £36,924 per annum. The salary range for Research Associate is £37,999 to £45,163 per annum.