Location
Jaguar Land Rover, Gaydon and University of Warwick, Coventry
Department
School of Engineering
Position Type
Fixed Term
Duration
Up to 34 Months
Salary
Starting salary of up to £43,000
About the Role
For informal enquiries, please contact Assistant Professor Steven Metcalf at steven.metcalf @ warwick.ac.uk
The Associate will be employed on a Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) project between the University of Warwick and Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) Ltd. The 34-month project will create digital twin energy models of the JLR Gaydon and Whitley sites and produce a roadmap for decarbonisation. The project will predominantly focus on thermal energy decarbonisation through waste heat recovery, heat networks, thermal storage and heat pumps.
The Associate will primarily work alongside JLR engineers to create the digital twin models and roadmaps and fully embed energy modelling into JLR’s planning processes. Based in JLR’s Engineering Operations team, they will develop digital twin energy models of their two main vehicle engineering and testing sites, produce roadmaps for decarbonisation, embed energy planning within business processes and begin pilot-scale implementation of the plans.
The Associate will also maintain a desk in the University of Warwick’s Sustainable Thermal Energy Technologies (STET) group, where they will have access to state-of-the-art knowledge in thermal energy decarbonisation from the academic team there and assistance with the digital twin modelling.
This post is part of the KTP initiative funded by Innovate UK. Knowledge Transfer Partnerships is a UK-wide programme that has been helping businesses for the past 40 years to improve their competitiveness and productivity through the better use of knowledge, technology and skills that reside within the UK Knowledge Base. It is an exciting opportunity to work across industry and academia to address one of the most demanding and important challenges facing the UK - thermal energy decarbonisation..
The skills the candidate will develop will put them at the cutting edge of thermal energy decarbonisation - skills that will be invaluable to any business and in extremely high demand. They will collaborate with a dynamic team of JLR staff and University of Warwick academics to embed state-of-the-art thermal energy systems knowledge across the organisation’s operations and partnerships. This will be achieved through staff training, collaborative working, and the development of impactful resources
About You
The candidate must be passionate about energy transition, decarbonisation and the environment. They must have not only the requisite knowledge in thermodynamics, heat transfer and energy modelling, but also practical industry experience of team working and project management to carry through the developed plans.
Ideally already working in this field, the candidate must have ambition to use and share their knowledge to support a career in decarbonisation.
The Associate is expected to become an absolute expert on the latest technologies and practices in decarbonising heating at large scale as well as become familiar with locally relevant/viable technologies and not just historical ’industry standard’ solutions.
The two JLR sites at Whitley and Gaydon have been in use for decades and contain a mixture of age of facilities and equipment. The Associate needs to evaluate the current metering and data fidelity and advise on additional requirements for collecting all needed data. Assisted by the JLR team, the Associate will collect from various sources the required technical info and drawings or arrange for new surveys or drawings.
The Associate must have experience of energy modelling for the digital twin development, plus a working knowledge of thermodynamics and heat transfer. They must also have relevant experience in thermal systems design, installation and commissioning.
As the Associate will be working in a large corporate entity and will interact with a range of different teams in JLR, good stakeholder engagement is required
For further information regarding the skills required for this role please see the personal specification section of the attached job description.
About the Department
The successful candidate will work between JLR (Gaydon and Whitley sites) and the Sustainable Thermal Energy Technologies (STET) group in the School of Engineering at the University of Warwick.
JLR designs, manufactures and sells four distinct and engaging luxury brands: Range Rover, Defender, Discovery, Jaguar. The Reimagine strategy is the roadmap by which the organisation is currently transitioning into a more profitable, sustainable, modern luxury business. Goals under the strategy include carbon net-zero and the electrification of its vehicles, with all its brands offering electric versions by 2030.
Decarbonisation and the net-zero targets are one of the cornerstones of the Reimagine strategy and a commitment made by the organisation.
To reach these goals, the organisation has dedicated resources in the sustainability department working on organisational level/macro decarbonisation projects, as well as more locally placed resources/heads in Manufacturing, Property & Estates and Engineering Operations with embedded decarbonisation leads and subject matter experts (SMEs).
The STET group in the University of Warwick are a well-established group and are world-leading in thermally-driven heating and cooling systems.
The project will transfer knowledge gained by the Warwick team during the recently completed ’ LoT-NET ’ EPSRC programme grant on low-temperature heat networks.
The Warwick campus has a 23km-long district heating system that supplies hot water to over 150 buildings on campus from Combined Heat and Power (CHP) plants.
This network is currently being transitioned to heat pumps to decarbonise and the candidate will have access to this data to enable the sharing of findings between the two prestigious organisations.
This post is part of the Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) initiative funded by Innovate UK. Knowledge Transfer Partnerships is a UK-wide programme that has been helping businesses for the past 50 years to improve their competitiveness and productivity through the better use of knowledge, technology and skills that reside within the UK Knowledge Base. For further information visit
About the University
Born in the 60s with a mindset of boldness, imagination and collaboration, the University of Warwick is a world-leading research-intensive university with the highest academic and research standards. We’re one of the world’s top universities, ranked 67th in the world and 10th in the UK*, with 92% of our research assessed to be ’world leading or internationally excellent’**.
You’ll be joining a diverse, innovative and globally connected community committed to igniting real world progress. Here at Warwick, we offer you opportunities to follow your ambitions as long as you bring the energy and determination to succeed.
*QS World University Rankings 2024
** Research Excellence Framework 2021
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