Salary Range: £43,000 - £46,000, plus £4k training and development budget
FTE: 1.0 (35 hours/week)
Term: Fixed (24 months)
Closing date: 07/11/2019
CMAC Future Manufacturing Research Hub in Continuous
Manufacturing and Advanced Crystallisation (www.cmac.ac.uk) in partnership
with Process Systems Enterprise (PSE) Limited (www.psenterprise.com) are
seeking to appoint a Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) Associate in the
area of process modelling, with a focus on developing and commercialising
enhanced software, encompassing industrial workflows for the application of a
user-friendly mechanistic modelling toolkit.
Formed in 1997, PSE is a world leading supplier of Advanced
Process Modelling (APM) technology and related model-based engineering
services to the process industries (industries with continuous and/or batch
material production processes). We help clients to: Create value through the
application of APM, explore the process decision space rapidly to reduce
uncertainty and make better, faster and safer design/operating decisions
through deeper process understanding. Our gPROMS FormulatedProducts (gFP) tool
is used by a range of pharmaceutical, consumer good and food companies for
digital design and digital operation of their formulated products and
associated manufacturing processes.
The project is part of the
Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) programme that aims to help businesses to
improve their competitiveness and productivity through the better use of
knowledge, technology and skills that reside within the UK knowledge base.
Successful Knowledge Transfer Partnership projects are funded by UK Research
and Innovation through Innovate UK and are part of the government’s Industrial
Strategy. To find out how KTP works and the vital role you will play if you
successfully secure a KTP Associate position please visit: www.ktpws.org.uk.
To be considered for the role you will be educated to a
minimum of a PhD in a relevant subject (chemical engineering, mathematics,
computer science, software engineering or related discipline) with appropriate
experience in implementing existing models from literature and partners in a
range of platforms, developing interfaces and communication of results to an
audience with broad modelling experience. In addition to the KTP core
development training, you will have a dedicated training budget of £4,000 to
further support your career development. Location of this role is split 70/30
between PSE in London and CMAC in Glasgow, respectively
Formal interviews for this post will take place at Process Systems Enterprise (PSE) Limited in London.
Informal
enquiries about the post can be directed to Dr Cameron Brown, (cameron.brown.100@strath.ac.uk
/ 0141 444 7122).
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