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Our world-leading Time & Frequency department seek a Time Scale Engineer.

You will be joining our team at an exciting time - we maintain the UK’s National Time Scale, UTC (NPL), and are currently developing a new resilient Time Scale facility that will underpin our Critical National Infrastructure (CNI). This will address the risks associated with our dependency on global navigation satellite systems (such as GPS) that are vulnerable to both natural and intentional interference.

As Time Scale Engineer, you will join a multi-disciplinary team of Scientists and Engineers in our National Timing Centre to develop new Time and Frequency infrastructure within the UK. You'll have a pivotal role in supporting robust systems for the core of the UK’s Time Scale, based on Atomic Clocks located at several UK sites.

Key responsibilities:

• Supporting through-life management of hardware assets; including

• Specifying and procuring equipment
• Contributing to engineering artefacts (e.g., compiling compliance reports or supporting obsolescence planning)
• Testing & integration of new equipment (e.g., time interval counters)

• Maintaining accurate records and contributing to information management
• Building domain-specific knowledge
• Ad-hoc data processing / analyses