Plasma Core Team Leader
Overview of Responsibilities
The salary for this role is £70,505 (inclusive of a Specialist Allowance).
Onsite working is expected for 3-5 days each week, however, we actively support requests for flexible working.
This role can be based at any of the following sites; Culham, Oxfordshire.
This role requires employees to complete an online Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS), including the Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) checks for criminal convictions and possibly a search of open source data.
As Plasma Core Team Leader, you will play a pivotal role in ensuring the team delivers high quality research in plasma core physics for the broader UKAEA scientific programme, with applications to tokamaks including JET, MAST-U, STEP, and ITER.
Line manage staff (including their development and recruitment), ensure objectives are met promptly, and set Team’s priorities in consultation with stakeholders.
The Plasma Core Team’s activities span: development of plasma core physics models and their integration into integrated modelling codes; application of the models to predict, validate, and analyse tokamak experiments; and application of the models to study next step fusion devices.
Additional Responsibilities
- Oversee the Plasma Core Team.
- The Team has diverse and multidisciplinary staff, mostly with PhDs and at a range of levels.
- Ensure those work fully support the scientific aims of UKAEA programmes, including STEP.
- Provide clear and positive guidance to ensure delivery of high quality and high impact outputs that are disseminated internally and externally, including in journal publications.
- Be responsible for all aspects of staff management and development in the Team: agree personal development plans; set objectives; provide feedback on job performance; complete annual appraisals; and ensure relevant training is identified and completed.
- Identify capability gaps within the Team, and supervise selection and recruitment of new staff ensuring vacancies are filled promptly.
- Provide input to the programme Management on staff skills and availability.
- Escalate line management issues and risks to upper management and communicate messages from them to the Team.
- Conduct own research in line with the goals agreed by the programme leadership.
Salary
£71,815 (inclusive of Specialist Allowance) + excellent benefits including outstanding pension.
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Programme: MAST-U
Department: Plasma Physics
Discipline: Science
Site Location: UKAEA Culham, Oxfordshire
Type of Employment: Full-time
Reference Number: REF3872G
Qualifications
Essential Requirements
- PhD (or equivalent experience) in plasma physics
- In depth knowledge and passion for understanding plasma core physics
- High level of research experience in plasma core physics with strong publications
- Experience of scientific leadership: overseeing collaborative projects with external or internal partners; supervision of PhDs and/or PDRAs
- Excellent communication and influencing skills
Desirable
- Line management experience
- Currently active in scientific research directly relevant to the post: e.g. development of plasma core models; or plasma core theory, modelling, or experiment
- Experience of working with UKAEA’s collaborators in plasma core research and application
- Enthusiasm for engaging with stakeholders
Additional Information
A full list of our benefits can be found here https://careers.ukaea.uk/life-at-ukaea/employee-benefits/.
UKAEA's mission is clean energy for all, and we welcome talented people from all backgrounds who want to help us achieve our mission.
We are under-represented from some groups and so want to encourage applications in particular from women in STEM, people from Black British Caribbean and African backgrounds and from Pakistani and Bangladeshi British backgrounds.
Our Executive team, supported by our 'Head of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion' (EDI) and Wellbeing and our EDI Networks actively promote Inclusion and takes steps to increase diversity within our organization.
We reinforce best practices in recruitment and selection and evaluate approaches to remove barriers to success.
UK Atomic Energy Authority is committed to being accessible. Please email talent@ukaea.uk if you have any questions or require help or adjustments to compete on a fair basis, for example, changes to the way we interview or share information.
Please note that vacancies are generally advertised for 4 weeks but may close earlier if we receive a large number of applications.
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