Job Description
Grade UE07: £35,333 – £42,155 per annum
College of Science & Engineering / School of Engineering / Institute for Energy Services
Full-time: 35 hours per week
Fixed-term: up to 36 months
The University of Edinburgh in collaboration with Severn Drives & Energy Limited are searching to recruit for a three yr mission which goals to decrease upkeep prices and extend availability of massive wind-farms. The role is funded thru the Knowledge Transfer Partnership scheme and the profitable candidate will embed with Severn Drives & Energy Limited (SDE) who supply, set up and preserve power, electrical and digital gear including; variable pace drives, gentle starters, and manage gear for windfarm and renewable electricity installations.
The Opportunity:
The profitable candidate will work with industry and college professionals to tackle extra failure costs amongst Static Var Compensation structures (STATCOM) deployed at windfarm throughout the UK and internationally. These STATCOM gadgets enable wind farm operators to supply smoothed voltage output, mitigating distortions in the power production.
The increased energy first-rate ensures a stabilized provide to distribution grids, vastly enhancing the dynamic overall performance of wind farms for renewable electricity manufacturing and distribution. However, inside giant wind farms severa numbers of STATCOMs installations have been failing catastrophically due to energy semiconductor disasters requiring pricey replacement, accelerated upkeep intervals and a loss of electricity manufacturing from the effected wind farm.
By addressing these failures, this task will supply good sized enhancements in renovation prices and operational uptime, with related discount in the price of wind energy.
Applicants have to have or be shut to finishing a PhD in electricity electronics, (or preserve equal industrial experience) ideally with ride in the modelling and evaluation of utility scale energy electronics and HVDC transmission. The appointment will be made at Grade UE07 and is accessible on a constant time period full-time foundation for 36 Months at 100%FTE. The function additionally attracts a training/personal improvement package deal of £2,000/year.
A full listing of predominant duties and the knowledge, competencies and journey required for the function can be discovered in the full job description below.
Please consist of a Cover Letter and CV with your application.
As a valued member of our team you can expect:
An exciting, positive, creative, difficult and beneficial vicinity to work. We provide you support, nurture your Genius and reward success. You will advantage from a aggressive reward package deal and a huge vary of personnel benefits, which consists of a beneficiant vacation entitlement, a described benefits pension scheme, staff discounts, family pleasant initiatives, bendy working and lots more. Access our staff advantages page for similarly records and use our reward calculator to discover out the whole fee of pay and advantages provided.
The University of Edinburgh holds a Silver Athena SWAN award in attention of our dedication to enhance gender equality in greater education. We are contributors of the Race Equality Charter and we are additionally Stonewall Scotland Diversity Champions, actively promotion LGBT equality.
If invited for interview you will be required to proof your proper to work in the UK. Further data is reachable on our right to work webpages.
The University is in a position to sponsor the employment of global employees in this role. If successful, an global applicant requiring sponsorship to work in the UK will want to fulfill the UK Home Office’s English Language necessities and practice for and secure a Skilled Worker Visa.
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