Battery Scale-up Technician

The Eden Campus, located in Guardbridge, approximately 5 miles away from St Andrews, is home to the Colin Vincent Centre for Battery Technology. The battery scale-up facility, complete with dry-room and large-scale equipment produces small volumes of pouch-type batteries.

The Battery Scale-up Technician will help run and maintain the facility to produce high-quality prototype pouch cells for industrial and academic clients. We will provide training.

• Undertaking the day-to-day running and upkeep of the facility,


• Operate equipment to produce and test pouch cells to an acceptable standard for clients,


• Preparing standard operating procedures,


• Carry out minor repairs and routine maintenance of scale-up equipment.


• Support research around battery manufacture, synthesis, materials analysis, and the optimization of cell parameters.
  
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  Membership of the USS Pension Scheme with generous employer contributions


• Staff discount scheme for local and national goods and services


• Free staff parking, employee Carshare and Cycle to Work Schemes and subsidised local bus travel


• Subsidised sports membership, reduced tuition fees on degree programmes for staff, access to training and development opportunities including LinkedIn Learning, access to library facilities, salary sacrifice scheme


• A range of wellbeing initiatives including membership of Peppy, a health application that connects staff to expert practitioners and personalized support on health matters


This post will be primarily based at the Eden Campus at Guardbridge.