Knowledge Transfer Partnership Associate in Bingley

This post is for a KTP associate based at James Walker Sealing Systems in Bingley and working with the world renowned WMG at the University of Warwick, working in the Power Electronics and Electric Machines Group. It involves working with a multi-disciplinary team of mechanical, electrical, controls and production colleagues on the development of a bolt fastener mechanical stress monitoring system. Successful project delivery requires hands-on work with the research team, industrial partners, sub-contractors, and other stakeholders.

We seek an electronics engineer to work on a Knowledge Transfer Project on remote monitoring instrumentation using best practice communications protocols, hardware development and validation. You will have a degree in electrical or electronics engineering or a similar discipline, have a broad experience of product hardware and software design, including system modelling, circuit design and communications theory, project delivery and engineering expertise in industry and/or academia, with the ability to make best possible use of our state-of-the-art research facilities and to transfer knowledge internally and externally. The successful applicant will have know-how in Design for Manufacture, service and end-of-life, including familiarity with appropriate HSE and WEEE regulations.

The project will create a viable, commercially acceptable remote monitoring system that will measure mechanical stress, collect data, reduce to small data packets and communicate to a central computing facility. The product will be applied to renewables, power generation and heavy industry applications.

About the business: James Walker is part of the James Walker Group of Companies, who are a successful global Industrial organisation supplying high performance sealing products and solutions. With state-of-the-art material technology skills, the James Walker Strategic Business Unit (SBU) of the James Walker Group specialises in the provision of sealing solutions (elastomers, polymers, composites, engineering plastics, high nickel alloys). Our worldwide group of companies has operations, sales and service entities across Europe, Middle East, India, Australia, New Zealand, SE Asia, South Africa and North and South America.