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Requisition ID: 27729
Location: Newcastle, GB
Contract Type: Fixed Term
Working Pattern: Full Time
Posted Date: 1 Nov 2024
Salary:
Research Assistant: £32,296 – £33,232 per annum
Research Associate: £34,866 – £45,163 per annum
Newcastle University is a great place to work, with excellent benefits. We have a generous holiday package; plus the opportunity to buy more, great pension schemes and a number of health and wellbeing initiatives to support you.
Closing Date: 15 November 2024
Apply here:
Hartma Automation are currently looking to take a graduate engineer into the business from a computer science degree background, interested in software development at an industrial level for control as well as the latest IOT and IO4 type technologies that need higher level language skills.
Email a CV in the first instance to Mark C. Hardy m.hardy@hartechautomation.com .
The post will be that of a Graduate Systems Engineer and we will be looking to give experience and training to the successful candidate in software development for the industrial control area. As we operate in many industry sectors this is a wide and varied possibly experience where that not only development, testing , commissioning, and upgrades will be done and some local , national, and maybe even international travel could be required.
We prefer candidates that can also drive as this is generally how they will firstly get to work but also from work to the client sites.
We will provide a good opportunity for the right candidate and a competitive salary that’s negotiable.
Role details and responsibilities: We are looking for a student to create a schematic animation of the temporomandibular joint and its articular disc to help patients understand disc displacement on a patient-based video the Dental school is currently producing. The animation would need to involve the following 3 stages:
1) Normal disc movement – disc moving synchronously with the hinge
2) Disc displacement – discs moving out of position between hinge and translation motions
3) Disc displacement without reduction – as (2) above but the disc doesn’t move back and the joint can only hinge and not translate
Diagrams of the type of disc movement required in the animation can be found on the following pages:
Disc Displacement with Reduction
Schematic Representation of Disc Movement
Dates and times: 05/02/2024 – 18/02/2024 (max 20 hours per week)
Skills required: To be eligible to apply you must be a registered Newcastle University student throughout the 2023/24 academic year.
Essential Skills:
• Animation / previous experience creating animations.
Desirable Skills:
• Knowledge of temporomandibular joint and articular disc
• Initiative
• Time management
• Organisation and planning
• Attention to detail
• Problem solving
Hourly rate of pay: £13.76
Location: Remote
Number of students required: 1
Work done as part of this role can count towards an NCL+ Award which can help you reflect on the skills you have gained and how to use them when applying for jobs in the future; to find out more visit https://nusu.co.uk/skills/nclaward.
How to apply: Email jobsoc@ncl.ac.uk quoting the role title and explaining how you meet the role criteria. Please also provide any examples you may have of creating animations in the past
Closing date for applications: Tuesday 30th of January
NCL Internships
NCL Internships are open to all current Newcastle University students and provide a unique opportunity to gain valuable graduate level work experience alongside your course.
Opportunities are advertised throughout the year and you find all current vacancies on My Career by searching ‘NCL Internship’
The following NCL Internships are advertising on MyCareer right now:
NCL Internship – Engineering Intern – Boyd Technologies Ashington UK Ltd
Closing date: 30/10/2023
Duration: This internship will run for 100 hours undertaken flexibly around your course. You will attend business premises.
Bursary/wage: £1,250 Bursary
For more information and to apply, visit MyCareer (link). https://mycareer.ncl.ac.uk/leap/jobs.html?id=56032&service=Careers%20Service
The intern will be positioned within the Engineering team in the UK facility, supporting the development of thermal components, thermal tests, equipment development and production support. The intern will be receive broad experience working with different departments within Boyd to help realise the engineering projects.
NCL Internship – Web Developer – Sound Mind and Body
Closing date: 06/11/2023
Duration: This internship is for 50 hours, undertaken flexibly around your course, from our gym in Benton, Newcastle upon Tyne.
Bursary/wage: £625 Bursary
For more information and to apply, visit MyCareer (link). https://mycareer.ncl.ac.uk/leap/jobs.html?id=56104&service=Careers%20Service
We are looking for an intern to overhaul our website and internet presence. The website is outdated and needs some urgent attention from someone that is creative and passionate about what is possible. The successful candidate will research, design, and implement technical specifications for projects based on user requirements.
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Please visit www.ncl.ac.uk/careers to explore all we offer!
With best wishes,
The NCL Internships Team
Kind Regards,
Jess Leech
Employer Liaison Assistant
Job Title: Video Software Engineer
Reports to: Engineering Manager
Location: Ulverston, Cumbria (Remote working possible)
Contract Type: Permanent Full Time
Salary: Competitive
Benefits: Private health insurance
Job Link: https://www.digitaledgesubsea.com/job-vancancies/video-software-engineer/
Located just to the south of The Lake District, Digital Edge Subsea is a world leader in digital video and inspection systems for offshore industries, such as renewables, decommissioning, oil and gas. With an enviable client list containing most of the major offshore companies, it is positioned to expand its capabilities and product portfolio to continue to drive forward the technology in this challenging sector.
A software engineer is required with the primary role of designing, maintaining and optimizing the video pipelines of the company’s products.
This job will suit an experienced software engineer or PhD student who is very familiar with video technology and software; particularly GStreamer, CUDA and NVIDIA GPUs. The ideal candidate will demonstrate specialized knowledge of streaming protocols, video formats and image process or machine vision techniques.
We need out engineers to be vertatile, enthusiastic to learn and keen to investigate new technologies. We also expect out software engineers to place a high emphasis on quality and reliability with a willingness and capability to test code.
Once a thorough understanding of the company’s products has been obtained, the Video Software Engineer will assist the technical support team with solving more advanced and unusual problems that they may face.