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Applied Acoustic Physicist

Employer
QinetiQ
Location
Gosport, UK
Salary
Unspecified
Posting live until
9 Jan 2023

Job Details

Overall Purpose of the Job:

Your role will support the delivery of hydro-acoustic tasks that will likely include elements of experimental measurement and numerical prediction undertaken using test facilities within the UK and Europe and a high performance computing cluster. You will work with the domain lead, task leads and project managers throughout the lifecycle of projects, from capturing customer requirements, through planning, task conduct, data analysis to delivering results by written reports and oral presentations. Throughout the life-cycle you will ensure that yours and the work of those working with you meets quality requirements, is delivered on schedule and to budget.

Specific responsibilities and challenges:

  • Ability to recognise and resolve non-standard, challenging occurrences and problems with work assignments;
  • Provide technical expertise in a customer facing and delivery focused environment;
  • Perform engineering/technical assignments requiring the integration of a wide range of engineering/technical disciplines;
  • Prepare written documentation on whole or segments of overall project;
  • Exercise considerable discretion on a variety of complex assignments;
  • Ability to work as an individual or part of a team and deliver whole or parts of projects;
  • Remain proactive in new techniques and communicate these to colleagues;
  • Interaction with project management and QinetiQ technical staff to align outputs;
  • Identifying innovative solutions within time and budget constraints;
  • Contribute to innovative solutions to customers’ problems;
  • Carry out technical trials and contribute to their design and reporting;
  • Production and delivery of tasks within time and budget constraints;
  • Provision of responses to customers’ technical requirements within agreed timeframes;
  • Continuing professional development of self.

Essential Education, Qualifications and Training

  • MEng/MSc in relevant technical applied science/engineering subject appropriately aligned with acoustical/optical/fluid measurements/modelling;
  • In lieu of degree qualification, relevant technical experience working in a science or engineering role;
  • Membership of, or suitability to join, an aligned professional institution, e.g. IOA, IOP, IMechE, IET.

Knowledge, Skills and Experience Required

Essential

  • Mix of practical and numerical skills and willingness to undertake desk and laboratory work;
  • Mathematical ability necessary to undertake turbulence, acoustic and vibration calculations/predictions/data manipulation in MatLab and Excel;
  • Good analytical skills and evaluative judgment based on the analysis of factual and qualitative information in complicated or novel situations;
  • Contributing as a team member to complex scientific/engineering tasks in acoustics;
  • Drafting technical documents, e.g. reports, technical specifications and project plans;
  • Working understanding of technical risk and appropriate mitigation;
  • Willingness to take responsibility for large portions of technical projects;
  • Awareness of relevant health and safety measures and processes.

Desirable

Ideally 3 or more years’ experience of 2 or more of the following:

  • Experience of model-scale testing, design, preparation use of models, ideally in hydrodynamic/acoustic testing;
  • Experience, ideally experience of, noise, vibration and flow measurement techniques;
  • Experience of optical/laser-based vibration and flow measurement methods;
  • Understanding of engineering mechanical design processes, assurance calculations and low-volume manufacture;
  • Familiarity with the UK Military and/or Commercial Marine industry.

Essential Personal Qualities and Behavioural Requirements:

  • Strong communication and diplomacy skills are required to guide, influence and convince others, in particular colleagues in other areas/departments and external customers/agencies;
  • Able to think conceptually and translate into viable practical technical solutions;
  • Make reliable and consistent judgments under minimal supervision;
  • Sound planning and organisation skills;
  • Flexibility in relation to work and deployment;
  • Excellent team working skills;
  • Clear thinking and adaptable;
  • Ability to apply basic principles to solve complex problems;
  • Ability to take responsibility for situations and work tasks;
  • Ability to delegate work to others and motivate team to achieve a task;
  • Must be sole UK National and have appropriate security clearance or be prepared to undergo vetting process.

UKSV National Security Vetting Solution: guidance for applicants - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

Why join QinetiQ?

As we continue to grow into new markets around the world, there’s never been a more exciting time to join QinetiQ. The formula for success is our appetite for innovation and having the courage to take on a wide variety of complex challenges.

You’ll experience a unique working environment where teams from different backgrounds, disciplines and experience enjoy collaborating widely and openly as we undertake this exciting and rewarding journey. Through effective teamwork, and pulling together, you’ll get to experience what happens when we all share different perspectives, blend disciplines, and link technologies; constantly discovering new ways of solving complex problems in an diverse and inclusive environment where you can be authentic, feel valued and realise your full potential. Read more about our diverse and inclusive workplace culture here.

Joining QinetiQ offers you an opportunity to work on a broad range of interesting defence-based projects with vast career progression across a global organisation in addition to competitive personal and professional benefits.  You’ll receive a highly competitive salary and benefits package: our basic salaries are very attractive as we constantly review what’s happening in the market. The range of benefits that we offer include, adaptive and flexible working, generous holiday entitlements, Health Cash Plan, Private Medical Insurance and Dental Insurance and much more.

About QinetiQ

As a company of over 6,000 dedicated professionals, we are a world-centre of excellence in research and development and act as a catalyst for fast-track innovation, offering outstanding experimentation facilities, and technical, engineering and scientific expertise. QinetiQ is made up of dedicated experts in defence, aerospace, security and related markets, all working together to explore new ways of protecting what matters most. Being part of QinetiQ means being central to the safety and security of the world around us. Partnering with our customers, we help to save lives; reduce risks to society; and maintain the global infrastructure on which we all depend. Come and find out how you can play a role.

Please note that many roles in QinetiQ are subject to national security vetting. Applicants that already hold the appropriate level of vetting may be able to transfer it upon appointment, subject to approval. A number of roles are also subject to restrictions on access to information that mean factors such as nationality, previous nationalities held and the country in which you were born may have an effect on the roles that you can be employed in.

Company

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QinetiQ is a company of scientists and engineers committed to listening, understanding and responding to our customers’ needs. This enables us to use our depth of experience, and our unique science and engineering expertise, to equip customers with powerful solutions to their most pressing challenges.

Why work for us
We understand that people want diversity from a career, so we’ve created a flexible working environment, where we offer opportunities to work on different projects and give people the freedom to innovate and try new things. Our peoples’ depth of expertise and their passion for defence and security makes the critical difference for our customers. We constantly encourage staff to think and do things differently, to always look for enterprising, agile ways to create real benefit. Collaborating with and learning from our world-renowned experts makes QinetiQ an exceptionally rewarding place to work; where no two days are the same.

Training and development
We encourage our people to challenge themselves, realize their full potential and to be proud to deliver outstanding performance for our customers. The QinetiQ Academy provides opportunities for further growth, and everyone are encouraged to develop technical skills and complete professional training.

Graduate schemes
Our two-year Graduate Development Programme gives graduates access to more than 250 rotational placements, unique facilities and a strong support network to help develop their career.

What we are looking for
We’re looking for outstanding technical people, creative and analytical thinkers, decision makers, influencers and excellent communicators. Working at QinetiQ is more than just a job – we’re making a difference in addressing some of society’s biggest technical challenges. Our purpose is to “save lives, protect sovereign interests, deliver where others can’t”. This is why we exist and the reason why we all get out of bed in the morning.


Location
UK/global

Number of employees
6000+

Positions recently recruited for
Physicists, optical scientists, systems engineers, software engineers, combat systems engineers, mission systems engineers, business analysts, project managers, data scientists, big data, dev ops, network, communications, training, synthetic environments and simulation engineers, cyber intelligence, cryptosecurity

Desired degree disciplines/class
Science degree or equivalent

Pre-requisites
Eligible to work in the UK or one of QinetiQ’s global businesses

How to apply
Visit careers.qinetiq.com

Closing date
All year round

Contact
careers.qinetiq.com

Company info
Website
Telephone
+44 (0)1252 392000
Location
Cody Technology Park
Ively Road
Farnborough
GU14 0LX
GB

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