Job Title: Divertor Team Leader
Location: Milton Park, Abingdon (OX14)
Salary: Competitive
Job Type: Full Time, Permanent
The Company aims to accelerate the development of fusion energy by combining two emerging technologies – spherical tokamaks and high-temperature superconductors.
The Company was originally established in 2009 to design and develop small Spherical Tokamaks and compact fusion reactors for a range of applications. Since then, the strategy has evolved to prioritise building a pilot plant to exceed fusion energy breakeven.
The Role:
The commercialisation of fusion requires that a number of fascinating technical challenges are met. One of these is the divertor, a dedicated region designed to manage the plasma exhaust. The divertor must be able to handle high steady-state heat fluxes (of the order of 10MW/m2) and withstand increased loads during transient events; remove the helium ash created by the fusion process, minimise contamination of the plasma and be maintainable in a nuclear environment.
They are looking for a team leader to manage a combination of in house and external resource to tailor existing and novel divertor designs to the specific needs of spherical tokamaks.
Main Responsibilities:
- Build, and provide leadership for the divertor development team
- Work with the Research and Technology director, other R&T group team leaders, and the tokamak physics team to develop diverter system functional specifications
- Identify a variety of concepts spanning novel to relatively mature technology that might meet these specifications
- Use sound scientific and engineering practice to identify and mitigate the technology gaps associated with these concepts
- Deploy numerical modelling and experimental validation as appropriate
- Work with other team leaders to select the final candidates for incorporation into protype reactors
Contacts and Communication
- Reports to the Research and Technology Director
- Responsible for Divertor group line management
- Responsible for the management of collaborations with academic and commercial organisations
Personal Skills and Attributes:
- At least three years of technical team leadership experience
- Ability to communicate effectively with peers and senior management
- Sufficient general technical knowledge to translate scientific objectives into sound engineering practice
- In depth knowledge of high power density thermal management
- Knowledge of current manufacturing methods and materials
- Demonstrated track record of practical and innovative experience in a technology development environment
- Experience with technical risk assessment
- Demonstrate a clear understanding of the health & safety requirements relevant to the role
- Highly motivated to deliver against challenging objectives in a compressed timescale
- Ability to contribute effectively in a multi-disciplinary team of engineers and scientists
- Willingness to learn new techniques and technologies
- Organised approach to complex problems
- Ability to work effectively with minimal supervision
- Proactive attitude
- Self-starting and self-reliant
- Ability to devise and operate effective project schedules
- Creativity and innovation
Key Requirements:
Qualifications:
Essential:
- Degree in a physical science
- PhD in a physical science, or equivalent industrial experience
Desirable:
- Project management qualifications
Knowledge and Experience:
Essential:
- Extensive experience of technical team leadership
- In depth knowledge of high power density thermal management
- Good general technical knowledge
Desirable:
- Materials science and engineering
- Knowledge of tokamak diverter engineering
- Experience with liquid metals
Personal skill and Qualities:
- Good communicator with team and senior management
- Demonstrated experience in a comparable environment
- Evidence of product or preferably technology development in a high-tech industry
Benefits:
- 25 Days Holiday (plus bank holidays)
- Company Pension scheme: Company contribution of 5% of salary after 3 months’ service
- Eligible for company share option scheme after one years’ service
- Company bonus scheme, discretionary, dependent on performance
- Private medical insurance after 3 months’ service
- Childcare voucher scheme
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Candidates with the experience or relevant job titles of; Divertor Engineer, Nuclear Physicist, Spectroscopy Engineer, Spectroscopy Analyst, Engineering Project Manager, Plasma Diagnostician, Plasma Monitoring Technician.
