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The British Antarctic Survey (BAS), part of the Natural Environment Research Council, aims to undertake a world-class programme of scientific research, and to sustain for the UK an active and influential regional presence and a leadership role in Antarctic affairs.

Based within the Polar Oceans programme at our Cambridge office, you will be part of a small team investigating oceanographic variability in the Southern Ocean and the Arctic, and its impacts on the Earth System.  Your function will be to provide engineering and technical support to both land- and ship-based field activities.  You will assist with the design, construction and operation of a hot-water drilling system having the capability of penetrating floating ice shelves up to 1 km thick for the purpose of deploying oceanographic instrumentation in the seawater beneath.  You will be involved in the design, construction and deployment of the sub-ice moorings as well as more conventional ship-deployed oceanographic moorings.  Field work will require you to spend some summer seasons in the Antarctic, involving periods of absence from the UK of up to four months.  Your duties while based in Cambridge will include report writing and management and maintenance of a stock of oceanographic instrumentation.

You will possess an HNC/HND or a first degree in a science or an engineering discipline.

Main Purpose of Job:

To provide technical and engineering support to the field- and ship-based observations undertaken in Polar Oceans programme.

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

1)      Undertake development and maintenance of a new hot-water drill.

2)      Design and construct oceanographic moorings for deployment through ice shelves and from ships.

3)      Maintain and deploy equipment for water column profiling through ice shelves and from ships.

4)      Participate in field based hot-water drilling activities.

5)      Participate in oceanographic cruises and oversee deployment of moorings from ships.

6)      Manage and maintain a stock of oceanographic instrumentation.

Salary will be in the range of £19,540 to £23,150 per annum. We offer a generous benefits package including a final salary pension scheme, free car parking, flexible working hours and 30 days annual leave.

On-line application forms and further information are available on our website at www.antarctica.ac.uk/employment

These are also available from the Personnel Section, British Antarctic Survey, High Cross, Madingley Road, Cambridge, CB3 0ET.  Tel: (01223) 221508.

Please quote reference: BAS 42/09
Closing date for receipt of application forms is 23rd August 2009
Interviews are scheduled to be held w/c 7th September 2009

We welcome applications from all sections of the community.  People from ethnic minorities are currently under-represented and their applications are particularly welcome.