Job Description For more information on UKIFS, visit: https://careers.ukaea.uk/wp-content/uploads/download/UKIFS_CandidateRecruitmentPack.pdf The salary for this role is £67,023 (inclusive of a Scarcity Market Premium Payment (MPP), and onsite working is expected for 3 days each week, however, we actively support requests for Flexible Working. Employees of UKIFS can be based at either of our sites; West Burton, Nottinghamshire or 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 As Magnets Technology Development Lead, you will play a pivotal role in providing technical and project delivery leadership on STEP HTS Magnets projects of large significance or scale, influencing the direction of the organisation and/or external partnerships: to seek out strategic contracts and collaborations, to engage with the global HTS community, and to scope out new opportunities to accelerate the STEP mission. You will provides specialist technical knowledge and direction in the complex field of HTS magnet systems. You will propose, define, manage and deliver major demonstration projects, and lead project teams, to demonstrate critical HTS technology. You will focus on demonstrating HTS technology solutions at pace in sub-scale prototypes; as such you will provide technical leadership in identifying pragmatic ‘least worst’ solutions for the STEP Prototype Powerplant, prioritising pace. In addition, you will be the main interface between the STEP Prototype Powerplant (SPP) design and the STEP Magnets technology development teams. You will also work alongside the Model Coil Programme Lead ensuring candidate technologies are integrated and validated at scale in HTS magnet prototypes. Key Accountabilities: Manage delivering critical component technology which demonstrate STEP’s HTS magnet solutions at pace. Technology development projects include magnet materials selection, HTS tape selection and performance assurance, fixed and remountable magnet joints, current leads, structural supports. Manage delivering the HTS Small Test Coil, Cable and HTS Materials development programmes. Be accountable for the development and ownership of strategic technology development plans and detailed Test Plans. Act as the main interface between the SPP design teams and the STEP Magnets technology development project teams ensuring alignment with the engineering design needs of the SPP. Act as the main interface between Model Coil project teams and the STEP Magnets technology development project teams ensuring candidate technologies are developed in time to validate at scale in HTS ‘model coil’ prototypes. Accountable for establishing and maintaining best practice in the use of research, analysis and evaluation tools Accountable for contract technical specifications and scoping of major collaborations to deliver critical technology development projects Accountable for technology development project budgets and for delivery of projects to schedule. Working closely with STEP Magnets project management team to ensure all project activities are planned, with deliverables and major milestones clearly articulated, and resources are deployed effectively. Responsible for ‘failing fast’ and communicating regular progress of critical technology development projects to enable SPP design, and HTS model coil, decisions or pivots. Accountable for the development and ownership of Verification and Validation plans against formal SPP design Requirements and associated Risk Registers. Accountable for proactively identifying Intellectual Property opportunities, working closely with the STEP IP team to produce invention disclosures and patent applications, and specifying collaborative IP terms in contracts and collaboration agreements. Accountable for building and maintaining relationships with the HTS global community and seeking out strategic contracts and collaborations to scope out new opportunities to accelerate the STEP mission. Accountable for communicating complex technical challenges and technology findings in a simple and effective manner to a range of audiences. Able to deputise for senior managers, up to and including the STEP Magnets Engineering Manager Support on the development of more junior engineers in areas of expertise Support the organisation’s culture of equality, inclusivity, and diversity You may be required to undertake any other duties that are reasonable and commensurate with this role that may not be specifically referred to in the above list of key accountabilities.