Role: Technician
Grade and Salary: Grade 4 (£24,700 - £26,615) pro rata
FTE and working pattern: 0.14 FTE (5 hours per week) fixed term for 5 months
Holiday Entitlement: 28 days annual leaveplus 9 buildings-closed days (and Christmas Eve when it falls on a weekday). Use our total rewards calculator: https://www.hw.ac.uk/about/work/total-rewards-calculator.htm to see the value of benefits provided by Heriot-Watt University.
Purpose of Role
The purpose of the role is to maintain and populate a website with information about personnel, research projects, events and publications related to the Energy Simulation chair programmes at Heriot-Watt University. The post holder will be a student member of the Energi Simulation chair research teams led by Professors Arne Skauge and Eric Mackay, and will collect information about their own and fellow research students’ projects, and use this information to populate and update a web site that they will be responsible for building and maintaining. They will also collate news information, publications, publishable data sets, and conference opportunities from research and support staff associated with chair teams for inclusion on the website.
Key Duties & Responsibilities
- Collect information about their own and fellow research students’ projects
- Use this information to populate and update a web site that they will be responsible for building and maintaining
- Collate news information, publications, publishable data sets, and conference opportunities from research and support staff associated with chair teams for inclusion on the website
- Some travel may be required for conferences, training courses, and industry events
Please note that this job description is not exhaustive, and the role holder may be required to undertake other relevant duties commensurate with the grading of the post. Activities may be subject to amendment over time as the role develops and/or priorities and requirements evolve.
Essential & Desirable Criteria
Essential
- Educated to SCQF Level 7-8 (HNC/HND) or equivalent in Physics/Chemistry/Mathes/Chemical Engineering. Petroleum Engineering, GeoEnergy Engineering or extensive experience in a similar role.
- Competent in the use of relevant IT packages; CMG (CMOST, STARS, GEM), ECLIPSE
- Demonstrable ability to work quickly, flexibly, and accurately.
- Intimately familiar with the Energi Simulation chair programmes and associated student projects at Heriot-Watt University
Desirable
- Competent in the use of relevant IT packages; MATLAB & WordPress.
- Familiar with the stakeholders of the Energi Simulation research programmes and their objectives.
Heriot-WattUniversity is committed to securing equality of opportunity in employment and to the creation of an environment in which individuals are selected, trained, promoted, appraised, and otherwise treated on the sole basis of their relevant merits and abilities. Equality and diversity are all about maximising potential and creating a culture of inclusion for all.
Heriot-WattUniversity values diversity across our university community and welcomes applications from all sectors of society, particularly from underrepresented groups. For more information, please see our website https://www.hw.ac.uk/uk/services/equality-diversity.htm and also our award-winning work in Disability Inclusive Science Careers https://disc.hw.ac.uk/.
Use our total rewards calculator: https://www.hw.ac.uk/about/work/total-rewards-calculator.htm to see the value of benefits provided by Heriot-Watt University.
About the Team
Professor Eric Mackay and Professor Arne Skauge from the Institute of GeoEnergy Engineering (IGE) at the School of Energy, Geoscience, Infrastructure and Society are pleased to continue and grow their research activities in energy transition, thanks to an investment exceeding $1M Canadian Dollarsfrom Energi Simulation.
The Calgary-based not-for-profit Energi Simulation, which promotes and financially supports research & development and graduate students through research grants at universities and industry research centres, is renewing its successful and award-winning chair programme at Heriot-Watt University, which has been ongoing for the past 14 years.
To further grow IGE’s research portfolio that supports the transition to a low-carbon energy future and underpin Energi Simulation’s vision to create a more sustainable energy future through simulation research, Professor Mackay’s chair will focus on CCUS (carbon capture, utilization and storage) and Reactive Flow Simulation and Professor Skauge’s chair will focus on Low Net Carbon Enhanced Oil Recovery.
About Heriot-Watt University
At Heriot-Watt we are passionate about our values and look to them to connect our people globally and to help us collaborate and celebrate our success through working together. Our research programmes can deliver real world impact which is achieved through the diversity of our international community and the recognition of creative talent that connects our global team.
Our flourishing community will give you the freedom to challenge and to bring your enterprising mind and to help our partners with solutions that can be applied now and in the future. Join us and Heriot Watt will provide you with a platform to thrive and work in a way that also helps you live your life in balance with well-being and inclusiveness at the heart of our global community.
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