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Job Title: Research Associate/Fellow in Sensor Selection for Fault Diagnostics

School/Department: Division of Infrastructure, Geomatics & Architecture

Salary: £25,513 to £37,394 per annum, depending on skills and experience (minimum £28,695 with relevant PhD). Salary progression beyond this scale is subject to performance

Job Family and Level: Research and Teaching Level 4 (Appointment will be Level 4 Career training grade where an appointment is made before PhD has been completed)

Contract Status: Fixed-term until 31 December 2016

Hours of Work: 36.25 hours per week (full-time)

Location: Nottingham Transportation Engineering Centre, Department of Civil Engineering, University Park, University of Nottingham

Reporting to: Professor John Andrews

Purpose of the New Role:

To carry out research into sensor selection and fault diagnostics for Functional Products.

| |Main Responsibilities |

|1. |To deliver research as part of a collaborative team and contribute to the achievement of specific research objectives. |

|2. |To collaborate in writing papers for submission to journals and conferences and prepare progress reports on the results of research. |

|3. |To present the results of research at project progress meetings and at conferences. |

| |To assist in the co-ordination of the research and related administrative tasks, including liaising with external project collaborators |

| |and providing assistance with supervision of doctoral students. |

|4. |To undertake reviews onto state-of-the-art fault diagnostic techniques. |

|5. |To undertake research to produce asset degradation models, intervention (maintenance) models, and decision support (optimisation) models |

| |with regard to both networked and non-networked assets. |

|6. |To liaise with the Faste laboratory at Lulea University of Technology staff in the development, implementation and application of |

| |modelling algorithms to predict optimal sensor selection to support fault diagnostic approaches, as well as in testing and validating |

| |these algorithms. |

Knowledge, Skills, Qualifications & Experience

| |Essential |Desirable |

|Qualifications/ Education |Hold (or shortly to be awarded) a PhD or equivalent in the |Experience in developing mathematical models for fault|

| |field of, Mathematics, Engineering, Physics, Computer |diagnostics or to predict system reliability, safety |

| |Science, Statistics or a closely related subject. |or risk performance accounting for the system |

| | |maintenance regime. |

|Skills/Training |Excellent Research skills. |Research involving the analyses of failure time or |

| |Excellent verbal and written Communication skills. |repair time data. |

| |Relevant IT and programming skills. |Experience in analysing system reliability or |

| |Previous knowledge or keen interest in fault diagnostics or |maintainability performance. |

| |system reliability prediction. |Experience in developing high level software models. |

|Experience |Experience in a research environment. |Experience on fault diagnostic algorithm development. |

| |Research and/or industrial experience. | |

| |Evidence of research publication. | |

| | | |

| |Experience on algorithm development to solve real | |

| |engineering problems | |

|Personal Attributes |Ability to work to deadlines and prioritise tasks. |Demonstrate creativity in problem solving. |

| |Excellent communication and presentation skills. | |

| | | |

Decision Making

i) taken independently by the role holder

• To assist in preparing applications for new research funding.

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ii) taken in collaboration with others

|Collaborative research applications. |

|Direction of students/collaborators research. |

|Publication decisions, papers, conference abstracts etc. |

|Proposals for grant application. |

|Strategy for long term research programme. |

iii) referred to the appropriate line manager (please name) by the role holder

|Wider research strategy of our research group |

Informal enquiries may be addressed to Professor John Andrews, Email: John.Andrews@Nottingham.ac.uk Please note that applications sent directly to this Email address will not be accepted.

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