About

• Company Description
• By 2050, the planet could be using twice as much electricity compared to today. Are you interested in contributing and helping to shape the future of the world’s energy? If so, read on.
• Fusion, the process that powers the Sun and Stars, is one of the most promising options for generating the cleaner, carbon-free energy that our world badly needs.
• UKAEA leads the way in realizing fusion energy, partnering with industry and research for groundbreaking advancements. Our goal is to bring fusion electricity to the grid, supported by tomorrow's power stations. In pursuit of our mission, UKAEA embraces core values: Innovative, Committed, Trusted, and Collaborative.

As an employee of UKAEA you will benefit from

• Outstanding defined benefit pension scheme, details of which can be found at the end of this advert.
• Corporate bonus scheme up to 7% and a Relocation allowance (if eligible).
• Flexible working options including family friendly policies and the right to request flexible working from the start of your employment.
• Employee Assistance Programme and trained Mental Health First Aiders,
• Generous annual leave allowance starting with 25 days, plus 3 days Christmas closure and 2.5 privilege days, in addition to UK bank holidays
• Wide range of career development opportunities
• A vibrant culture committed to equality and being fully inclusive
• Job Description
• The salary for this role is £91,173 (inclusive of a Specialist Allowance).
• Onsite working is expected for 3 days each week minimum, however, we actively support requests for flexible working. Due to the required regular on-site attendance, applicants should live within a commutable distance from Culham.
• This role is based at the following site: Culham, Oxfordshire
• This role requires employees to complete an online Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS), including The Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) checks for criminal convictions and possibly a search of open source data.
• The Role
• Are you looking for an exciting opportunity to make a difference? Join our team and contribute to the future of fusion energy. As Head of LIBRTI Science, you will play a pivotal role as senior line manager and senior technical manager for all scientific activity pertaining to LIBRTI. The incumbent will exercise significant design judgement – down-selecting the large neutron-dominated experiments (replicated in digital twin-type space) from a portfolio of potential experiments, alongside LIBRTI’s Director and Head of Engineering. The role will entail final approval, as well as research oversight, of all LIBRTI experiments – their rationale, technical trajectories, data and model outputs and ultimately, the results dissemination and defence. The incumbent is expected to be a senior representative of UKAEA, a fusion subject matter expert, working at international level, capable of strong strategic collaborations with STEM leaders across the fusion community and fully versant on fusion device operation.

Key Accountabilities

• Lead on Delivery of Science through the LIBRTI Programme
• Exercising final decisions for the mock-up experiments (rationale, technical trajectories, targets for data and model outputs, results dissemination and defence)
• Delivering coherence between the physical and digital experimental outcomes
• Ensuring a world leading standard of output from the projects within the Programme, presented internationally
• Identifying ‘research’ risks/opportunities in the experiments, and creating mitigation strategies
• Directly impacting the investment strategy for the LIBRTI builds via ownership of the stakeholder engagement with large (>£10m) consortia leads

Implement and communicate the UKAEA breeding research strategy (alongside the Head of LIBRTI Science)

• Maintaining a state-of-the-art knowledge in fusion devices, neutron generation, tritium handling, irradiated materials
• Identifying UKAEA’s USPs, now and future potential
• Maintaining alignment between the UKAEA’s technical strategy and the delivery of LIBRTI
• Leveraging the wider UKAEA capabilities in the Tritium, Technology, Robotics, Computing and Materials Divisions to the benefit of LIBRTI
• Lead the science resources across the LIBRTI experiments as most senior line manager and technical manager, undertaking broader coaching and upskilling of direct reports and via group technical engagement.
• Supporting project delivery as technical consultant to other UKAEA Programmes (EPSRC, JDR, ITER & Dependencies), with particular input on irradiated and tritiated environments

Develop and execute strategies for building and exploiting valuable and disruptive IP related to breeding so that UK and UKAEA draw direct benefit from LIBRTI’s first mover status in global fusion research

• LIBRTI patent vs know-how strategy
• Support for spinouts
• Connect to UKAEA’s ‘Fellows’ stream creating a culture of strong cross-UKAEA technical experts
• Developing deep knowledge of non-LIBRTI areas (plasma science, computing for example)
• Promote UKAEA internationally
• Developing collaborations with global fusion device designers / builders / operators, including Japan, US and Europe, understanding the commercial expectations in all countries.
• Representing and promoting UKAEA’s capabilities and successes at international forums such as conferences and trade fairs.
• Representing UKAEA Materials on external bodies as an expert including industry forums, standards committees, and governmental advisory panels.
• Develop the programme portfolio
• Initiating and defining future experiments with international consortia partners drawn from industry and academia.
• Working with UKAEA business development to access and leverage new funding from industrial, governmental, and other sources nationally and internationally.
• Qualifications

Essential

• Recognised Subject Matter Expert in the Fusion (Nuclear) community.
• PhD Scientist.
• Extensive applied research experience in complex international collaborative projects.
• Extensive applied research experience in large-scale experiments (e.g. JET, CERN).
• Experience leading funding bids in an R&D environment.
• Expert level knowledge in at least one of the following: tokamak devices / superconducting magnets / high heat regime builds / neutron generators / tritium fuel cycles
• Proven ability to interact efficiently with people in a variety of different situations.
• Proven track record of building relationships, networks, and collaborations with industry and academia.
• Additional Information
• A full list of our benefits can be found here https://careers.ukaea.uk/life-at-ukaea/employee-benefits/
• UKAEA's mission is clean energy for all, and we welcome talented people from all backgrounds who want to help us achieve our mission. We are under-represented from some groups and so want to encourage applications in particular from women in STEM, people from Black British Caribbean and African backgrounds and from Pakistani and Bangladeshi British backgrounds. Our Executive team, supported by our 'Head of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion' (EDI) and Wellbeing and our EDI Networks actively promote Inclusion and takes steps to increase diversity within our organization. We reinforce best practices in recruitment and selection and evaluate approaches to remove barriers to success.
• UK Atomic Energy Authority is committed to being accessible. Please email [email protected] if you have any questions or require help or adjustments to compete on a fair basis, for example, changes to the way we interview or share information.
• Please note that vacancies are generally advertised for 4 weeks but may close earlier if we receive a large number of applications.