Programme Manager DCDYNAMIC

Job title:

Programme Manager DCDYNAMIC

Company:

University of Manchester

Job description

The University of Manchester lies in the heart of Manchester and has been created by bringing together the Victoria University of Manchester and UMIST, two of Britain’s most distinguished universities, to create a powerful new force in higher education. The Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering hosts the National Grid Power Systems Research Centre, and the largest academic high voltage laboratory in the UK. At the High Voltage Research Group, a wide variety of research work is carried out in areas including insulating materials, transformers, overhead lines and gas insulated equipment.This post is to support the delivery of “accelerating DC DYNAMIC export cable technology for sustainable European electricity grid (DCDYNAMIC),” which is a project recently awarded through the Horizon Europe Programme. The offshore environment presents unique challenges as the power cables need to accommodate the mechanical stress due to the movement of the floating platform and the dynamic behavior of sea, in addition to the electrical and thermal stresses during live operation. This combination of factors has resulted in unplanned offshore outages, which yield significant costs (billions of euros across the sector) from cable repair time, loss of generation revenue during repair, and increase in insurance premium post-repair. Hence, ensuring the reliability of dynamic DC cable is critically important to energy security in order to minimize the negative economic impacts on operators/consumers. Additionally, this new generation of cables needs ultimately to be a “sustainable product” for the EU Green Deal.The project consortium will deliver the underlying understanding of the combined electrical-mechanical-thermal stresses and failure mechanisms on DC dynamic export cable, allowing the development of a robust analytical testing regime, mimicking the environmental and operational conditions. A 320 kV dynamic HVDC export cable prototype will be designed and manufactured. The testing protocols will be translated to a full-scale demonstrator and validate this new dynamic HVDC cable in a relevant environment (TRL 6). The knowledge created will validate and revolutionize the design and mass technology adoption of DC dynamic export cable. We will set the performance benchmark for a critical enabling technology, ensuring the safe and affordable transfer of envisioned 17% of total electricity generation from offshore wind in a sustainable European electricity grid by 2050.

Overall Purpose of the JobThis is a unique opportunity for a Programme Manager to work as part of DCDYNAMIC, which was recently awarded through the Horizon Europe programme. DCDYNAMIC project is a multi-disciplinary consortium coordinated by the University of Manchester (UNIMAN) with other project partners being ETH Zurich, University of Vienna, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, NKT Cable Group, Shell France, Shell Research Ltd, S&B Insurance Advisors, Arttic Innovation. The Programme Manager (PM) will play a key role in ensuring the delivery of DCDYNAMIC project, a multi-disciplinary consortium made up of 8 partners from industry and academia.The post holder will ensure tasks are carried out in a timely manner with a high level of professionalism, confidentiality and in accordance with all of UoM policies and procedures. Flexible, blended working arrangements will be considered.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 morePlease note that we are unable to respond to enquiries, accept CVs or applications from Recruitment Agencies.Any recruitment enquiries from recruitment agencies should be directed to .Any CV’s submitted by a recruitment agency will be considered a gift.Enquiries about the vacancy, shortlisting and interviews:Name: Dr Tony Lujia ChenEmail:General enquiries:Email:Technical support:This vacancy will close for applications at midnight on the closing date.Please see the link below for the Further Particulars document which contains the person specification criteria.

Expected salary

Location

Manchester

Job date

Wed, 11 Sep 2024 05:00:55 GMT

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