Technology and Manufacturing Navigation Manager

Fixed Term Contract until 31 March 2028

Full time starting salary is normally in the range of £48,039 to £57,797 per annum

We welcome applications from passionate, skilled and committed individuals to join this exciting, collaborative project and help propel climate-positive technology-based companies to demonstration, commercialisation and growth.

About the Role

The core purpose of this role is to help identify and connect participants involved in the scale-up of climate innovations. This will be achieved by identifying and enabling access to technology and manufacturing expertise and facilities across the UK, using your diagnostic skills to help overcome technical scale-up challenges and barriers for innovators.

Whilst drawing on and leveraging the available knowledge-base support ecosystem (e.g. academic expertise), the postholder will apply their existing capabilities to diagnose issues within technical scale-up processes (e.g. formulation, materials, system integration, manufacturing) of novel climate innovations. The postholder will standardise this process and provide tailored support plans for each business. Once a technical diagnosis has been developed, the postholder will provide bespoke support to enable the next level of prototype development, or trial set-up, as needed by accelerator users. Examples of this include, but are not limited to, advanced hackspace, prototyping facilities, lab benches and access to specialist trial facilities. 

With responsibility for meeting a set of KPIs linked to accelerator activities (predominantly climate innovation related), you will thus undertake a wide range of activities from attracting and recruiting pan-UK innovators and helping to devise attractive opportunities for participants, to managing a portfolio of individual projects and delivering on reporting requirements. 

About You

You will be educated to degree level in a subject related to Cranfield’s core themes, or have equivalent experience, and have demonstrable experience with support for technical innovation and scale up, as well as proven ability in successful project management and in effective communication with diverse teams.

About Us

As a specialist postgraduate university, Cranfield’s world-class expertise, large-scale facilities and unrivalled industry partnerships are creating leaders in technology and management globally. Learn more about Cranfield and our unique impact here.

Our Values and Commitments

Our shared, stated values help to define who we are and underpin everything we do: Ambition; Impact; Respect; and Community. Find out more here.

We aim to create and maintain a culture in which everyone can work and study together and realise their full potential. We are a Disability Confident Employer and proud members of the Stonewall Diversity Champions Programme. We are committed to actively exploring flexible working options for each role and have been ranked in the Top 30 family friendly employers in the UK by the charity Working Families. Find out more about our key commitments to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion and Flexible Working here.

Working Arrangements

Collaborating and connecting are integral to so much of what we do. Our Working Arrangements Framework provides many staff with the opportunity to flexibly combine on-site and remote working, where job roles allow, balancing the needs of our community of staff, students, clients and partners.

How to apply

For an informal discussion about this opportunity, please contact Juliet Kauffmann, on (E): j.kauffmann@cranfield.ac.uk

To apply please click above 'Apply' Button. For further details, please contact us on (E): peoplerecruitment@cranfield.ac.uk. Please quote reference number 5009.

Closing date for applications: 23 February 2025

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