THE UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM
Recruitment Role Profile Form

Job Title:Marie Curie Fellow

School/Department:Advanced Manufacturing Research Group, Manufacturing Metrology Team

Salary:£28,813 - £35,018, in accordance with the EC Marie Skłodowska-Curie financial guidelines for this scheme

Job Family and Level:Research and Teaching Off scale

Contract Status:This post will be offered on a fixed-term contract for a period of 36 months

Hours of Work:Full time – 36.25 per week

Location:Coates Building, Faculty of Engineering, University Park, Nottingham, NG7 2RD

Reporting to:ProfRichard Leach

Purpose of the New Role:

The successful candidate will work with Professor Richard Leach form the Manufacturing Metrology Team at the Institute for Advanced Manufacture at the University of Nottingham. The project is part of MICROMAN (European Training Network on “Process Fingerprint for Zero-defect Net-shape MICROMANufacturing”) which is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Innovative Training Network. Coordinate metrology has been used for decades in the manufacturing industry as the most dominant form of process control, usually employing tactile coordinate measuring machines (CMMs). However, due to the slow speed of tactile systems and the fact that they can only take a limited amount of points, optical CMMs are starting to flourish. On the smaller scale, there are many optical surface measuring devices that tend to be used off-line in industry. When making small, high-precision, complex components, with difficult to access geometries, it is a combination of the surface measurement systems and the CMMs that is required. This requirement is one of the main aims of the project – to develop a fast, high-accuracy, non-contact measurement system, which can be employed in industry. The original and innovative aspect of the project lies with the combination of surface texture and form metrology; both in an in-line scenario. Also, calibration methods for both types of instrument are often incompatible and new techniques need to be developed The project will be carried out in collaboration with Alicona.

Main Responsibilities / % time per year
1. / Review existing work in in-line surface and coordinate metrology. / 10%
2. / Design and produce an in-line optical metrology tool. / 40%
3. / Design and produce metrology frames and interfaces to manufacturing systems. / 15%
4. / To research calibration methods for the in-line tool. / 20%
5. / Prepare project report and scientific publications / 10%
6. / General tasks in the research group / 5%

Knowledge, Skills, Qualifications & Experience

Essential / Desirable
Qualifications/ Education /
  • Excellent degree in engineering, science, or equivalent, qualifying the candidate for obtaining a doctoral degree

Skills/Training /
  • Strong mechanical engineering skills including design
  • Good communication skills
  • Ability to present scientific work in oral and written format
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  • Experience in optical system design and modelling
  • Ability to carry out an uncertainty analysis

Experience /
  • General engineering experience
/
  • Experience in optics

Personal attributes /
  • Ability to work independently and also efficiently in a team

Statutory/Legal /
  • Eligibility criteria for ESR on Marie Skłodowska-Curie ITN

Decision Making

i)taken independently by the role holder

Day-to-day work in the design, production and characterisation of metrology tools.

ii)taken in collaboration with others

Developing calibration techniques

iii)referred to the appropriate line manager (please name) by the role holder

Decisions regarding major changes of design strategies and strategic decisions of scientific direction and priorities, as well as financial, and personnel matters

Additional Information

Informal enquiries may be addressed to Prof Richard Leach (). Please note that applications sent directly to this email address will not be accepted.
Applicants will be considered on an equal basis, subject to the relevant permission to work in the UK as defined by the requirements set out by the UK Border and Immigration Agency. Please visit for more information.
The successful applicant will be required to satisfy the eligibility criteria for Marie Skłodowska-Curie Early Stage Researchers, i.e;
-Must be within the first four years (full-time equivalent) of their research career
-Must not have resided or carried out their main activity (work, studies, etc.) within the UK for more than 12 months in the three years immediately prior to their recruitment.
Further information is available at p40-41
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