Nottingham University
|THE UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM |
|Recruitment Role Profile Form |
Job Title: Research Associate/Fellow in Infrastructure Asset Management
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: Full time until 31 January 2016
Hours of Work: 36.25 hours per week
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 infrastructure asset management for railway systems.
| |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 asset management modelling 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 a Network Rail staff in the development, implementation and application of modelling algorithms to predict optimal asset |
| |management decisions, 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 in the field of, |Experience in developing mathematical models to |
| |Mathematics, Engineering, Physics, Computer Science, |predict system reliability, safety or risk performance|
| |Statistics or a closely related subject. |accounting for the system maintenance regime. |
| | |Experience of formulating system or component |
| | |degradation models. |
|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 system reliability |maintainability performance. |
| |prediction. |Experience in developing high level software models. |
| |Ability to analyse failure time or repair time data. | |
|Experience |Experience in a research environment. |Experience on reliability algorithm development. |
| |Research and/or industrial experience. | |
| |Evidence of research publication | |
|Personal Attributes |Ability to work well in a team and lead when necessary. |Demonstrate creativity and leadership in problem |
| |Ability to work to deadlines and prioritise tasks. |solving. |
| |Excellent communication and presentation skills. | |
Decision Making
i) taken independently by the role holder
• To assist in preparing applications for new research funding.
• Advice on consumable and small scale purchasing.
ii) taken in collaboration with others
|Collaborative research applications. |
|Direction of students/collaborators research. |
|Investigation and decisions about new apparatus/equipment for the group. |
|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 |
|Purchase decisions ................
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