Technical Specialist

3 days ago


Manchester, United Kingdom The University of Manchester Full time

We are seeking an enthusiastic and proactive Technical Specialist in CFD to join our dynamic technical operations team, which strives to provide a sector leading technical support for FSE and the wider University. With a commitment to customer service excellence and a passion for science and engineering, Technical Specialist in CFD will provide an agile technical support service to staff and students to support teaching, research and professional services. FSE’s research and teaching quality is recognised globally; this is an exciting opportunity to join us in Manchester and contribute to the provision of a sector leading technical service.
- Support the development and integration of cutting-edge Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) software and associated tools into our teaching and research.
- Support the use of CFD software for Teaching and Learning, including the development of tutorials to serve as examples for learners. Particular focus is on the development of interactive software demonstrations using python (e.g. Project Jupyter).
- Support the use of CFD software for Research, including the integration, update and enhancement of recent software capabilities into software repositories (e.g. Github) managed by the University. This should include the development of learning material to support best practice programming and software engineering (e.g. automatic validation, repeatability, continuous integration).
- Support the University policy for open and reproducible research and the FAIR principles for data storage (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable). This should include guidelines, examples and tutorials for staff and students.

**What you will get in return**:

- Fantastic market leading Pension scheme
- Excellent employee health and wellbeing services including an Employee Assistance Programme
- Exceptional starting annual leave entitlement, plus bank holidays
- Additional paid closure over the Christmas period
- Local and national discounts at a range of major retailers

As an equal opportunities employer we welcome applicants from all sections of the community regardless of age, sex, gender (or gender identity), ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation and transgender status. All appointments are made on merit.

Our University is positive about flexible working - you can find out more here

Hybrid working arrangements may be considered.

**Enquiries about the vacancy, shortlisting and interviews**:
Name: Christopher Page or Alistair Revell

**General enquiries**:
**Technical support**:
**Please see the link below for the Further Particulars document which contains the person specification criteria.



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