Plasma Core Team Leader

The salary for this role is £70,505 (inclusive of a Specialist Allowance) . Onsite working is expected for 3 days each week, however, we actively support requests for flexible working.

This role can be based at any of the following sites; Culham, Oxfordshire

This role requires employees to complete an online Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS), including The Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) checks for criminal convictions and possibly a search of open source data.

The Role

Are you looking for an exciting opportunity to make a difference? Join our team and contribute to the future of fusion energy. As Plasma Core Team Leader , you will play a pivotal role is to ensure the team delivers high quality research in plasma core physics for the broader UKAEA scientific programme, with applications to tokamaks including JET, MAST-U, STEP, and ITER. Line manage staff (including their development and recruitment), ensure objectives are met promptly, and set Team’s priorities in consultation with stakeholders.

The Plasma Core Team’s activities span: development of plasma core physics models and their integration into integrated modelling codes; application of the models to predict, validate, and analyse tokamak experiments; application of the models to study next step fusion devices.

Additional Responsibilities:

• Lead the Plasma Core Team. The Team has diverse and multidisciplinary staff, mostly with PhDs and at a range of levels. Ensure there work this fully supports the scientific aims of UKAEA programmes, including STEP.
• Provide clear and positive leadership to ensure delivery of high quality and high impact outputs that are disseminated internally and externally, including in journal publications.
• Be responsible for all aspects of staff management and development in the Team: agree personal development plans; set objectives; provide feedback on job performance; complete annual appraisals; and ensure relevant training is identified and completed.
• Identify capability gaps within the Team, and lead selection and recruitment of new staff ensuring vacancies are filled promptly.
• Provide input to the programme leadership on staff skills and availability.
• Escalate line management issues and risks to upper management and communicate messages from them to the Team.

• Conduct their own research in line with the goals agreed by the programme leadership.