Research Assistant in Digitalisation of Manufacturing

We are pleased to announce an exciting new opportunity to advance the state-of-the-art in digitalisation of manufacturing processes. This position is focused on supporting the development of critical infrastructure and demonstrators within manufacturing, assembly, inspection and machine learning research.

This position will involve tasks distributed across both hardware and software integration across two projects. The first is centred on the development of a multi-modal sensor platform or ‘rig’ for the capture and tracking of human activities and actions across several manufacturing assembly tasks. The second project is tasked with the development of an automated inspection ‘rig’ for the assessment of manufactured products (electric motors, batteries or composite components) at their end-of-life phase. Both projects will allow for flexible discretion and autonomy on reaching the development goals of each project and will be supported by the wider members of our group and technical staff within the university.

The University of Sheffield is seeking to appoint a talented and highly motivated Research Assistant in digitalisation of manufacturing processes. The position is associated with funding from an EPSRC related manufacturing hub: The Future Electrical Machines Manufacturing (FEMM) hub, where the focus within our group is on the development of demonstrators and research on the tracking and traceability of manufacturing processes of electrical machines, power and drives. You will join a world-class team of digital manufacturing researchers, with frequent opportunities to engage in networking and development activities with other researchers across the consortium and progress your career as a future research leader.

As part of the FEMM hub and Digital Manufacturing Group within the University of Sheffield, you will oversee the hardware and software development of these demonstrators, from inception to final instantiation, in collaboration with other members of the group. Though the focus of this position is initially on the design and development of these two demonstrators, the position offers the opportunity to expand beyond technical skills into research and collaboration with academic staff within the group through further experimentation on these platforms.

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