Based at the High Temperature Research Centre, Ansty, the post holder will undertake all:
- Additive Technician Position within a varied team.
- Material mixing
- Processing builds across a variety of Machines
- Cleaning
- Testing
- Provide cover to neighbouring operations
- To ensure delivery of all project work to quality, time and cost requirements.
Main responsibilities
- Collation of trial data - Gather and summarise agreed data recorded during manufacturing trials. This can include dimensional data, yield information, defect data, photographs and output from material testing.
- Conduct additional analysis of trial data using methods developed by Research Fellows and Research Engineers.
- Ensure work runs to schedule
- Data reporting and analysis – Microsoft package summaries of data collected.
Person specification
Essential skills/qualifications/experience
- Self-motivated with ability to meet deadlines.
- Pragmatic hands on approach to problem solving with a can-do attitude.
- Attention to detail with an ability to deliver work to required standards
- Highly Dexterous
- Self-motivated with ability to meet deadlines.
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
- Actively promotes and works towards maintaining a clean and tidy work environment
- Experience with mixing and blending ceramic materials for additive manufacturing purposes.
- Must be competent in preparing internal/external reports and reporting to external stakeholders
- Process components through the operations in accordance to technical instructions; conduct QC testing of mixes in accordance to laboratory standard operating procedures.
- Day to day running, organisation and maintenance of the laboratory equipment associated with the activities of the additive cell.
Desirable skills/qualifications/experience
Ability to use a wide range of laboratory equipment including but not limited to:
- Furnace operation;
- Twin plate rheometers;
- Particle size analysers, Mechanical testing at both ambient and elevated temperatures.
- Experience working in a R&D environment
- STEM based education
- Full UK driving license
What we offer you
- Option to buy or sell up to a week’s holiday, plus long service holidays
- Fully Flexible working offering
- Wellbeing hub incl. Vitality PMI, access to Wellbeing champions
- Corporate Discounts e.g. up to 50% selected gyms
- Financial support for Professional memberships
- Professional development opportunities
- Opportunities to join and create clubs/societies
- Enhanced family leave
- Group Income Protection
- Life Assurance
- Company Pension Scheme and access to pension advice
Please note we may close this vacancy earlier than the planned expiry date should we receive suitable applications.
About the MTC
The Manufacturing Technology Centre (MTC) is an internationally renowned and respected research and development organisation, bridging the gap between academia and manufacturing, and is home to some of the brightest minds in engineering from around the globe.
The MTC's engineers, scientists and technicians work with some of the most advanced manufacturing equipment in the world in a supportive and collegiate environment for the development and demonstration of new technologies on an industrial scale, helping manufacturers of all sizes develop new and innovative processes and technologies.
Established to prove cutting edge manufacturing advances in an agile environment in partnership with industry, academia and other institutions, the MTC works with hundreds of industrial clients across a range of sectors including automotive, aerospace, rail, informatics, food and drink, infrastructure, construction and civil engineering, electronics, oil and gas and defence. The MTC helps businesses thrive by advancing their technological and engineering capabilities to improve their business efficiency, capability and competitiveness.
Supported by one of the largest public sector investments in UK Manufacturing, the MTC's engineering capabilities cover research and development, advanced manufacturing management, factory design and training for the skills of the future.
The MTC has world-class facilities in Coventry, Liverpool and Oxford, and is part of the UK's High Value Manufacturing Catapult, supported by Innovate UK.
