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Year In Industry - 1 year placement

Ready to put your studies into practice and gain valuable real-world experience? Join Edwards Vacuum in Clevedon for a one-year Year in Industry placement and turn your knowledge into experience.

Throughout your placement, you will work alongside experienced colleagues, take on real responsibilities and contribute to meaningful projects that complement your academic studies. With hands-on experience, ongoing support and opportunities to develop your professional and technical skills, you will gain valuable insight into working in industry and build experience that will help you stand out as you take the next steps in your career.

Main responsibilities -

• The role requires an ability to work in an industrial lab environment and observe Edwards EHS rules and guidelines.
• Analytical chemistry skills including; instillation of test gases, leak checking of test equipment, analysis of gases using equipment including FTIR, mass spec, electrochemical cells, analysis and write up of data.
• Ability to contribute to innovative technology development or product improvement. Carry out risk assessments on prototype equipment or lab test rigs and to operate them safely. Ability to interact with other members of the team.
• Collect accurate data and writeup detailed and accurate reports on experimental work. Ability to present and convey the results of this work in a concise and clear

To succeed, you will need

We encourage you to apply even if you don't meet every single requirement. We value diverse experiences and perspectives and are excited to see what you bring to the role.

• The ideal placement student needs to design, build and operate experiments with the aim of experiencing working in an experimental lab; you are expected to collect data, analyse, write-up and report results of your experiments. You will be consistently supported by more experienced staff.
• You will need to be confident in discussing process, chemical and abatement issues within the team and when needed to other teams, you must be able to use available resources on site to perform basic analysis of flow conditions and abatement performance.
• You are expected to be mechanically adept, being able to upgrade and modify systems when setting up experimental conditions.
• You are expected to follow and participate in the writing of the relevant safety documentation and procedures relevant to their experimental work.
• Ability to self-motivate and work as an individual in a safe and efficient way.

In return, we offer

• Culture of trust and accountability
• Lifelong learning and career growth
• Innovation powered by people
• Comprehensive compensation and benefits
• Health and well-being

Job location

This role requires you to work on-site at our office in Bristol, United Kingdom (GB). You will be part of a dynamic team and enjoy the benefits of face-to-face collaboration.