Job Description
Job Title: Senior Project Engineer
Posting Start Date: 11/08/2025
Job Id: 1237
School/Department: Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre
Work Arrangement: Full Time (Hybrid)
Contract Type: Permanent
Salary per annum (£): £38,784 - £51,753
Closing Date: 25/08/2025
The University of Sheffield is a remarkable place to work. Our people are at the heart of everything we do. Their diverse backgrounds, abilities and beliefs make Sheffield a world-class university.
We offer a fantastic range of benefits including a highly competitive annual leave entitlement (with the ability to purchase more), a generous pensions scheme, flexible working opportunities, a commitment to your development and wellbeing, a wide range of retail discounts, and much more.

• Technically support the delivery of high-quality research.
• Analyse and record data for inclusion in reports to summarise main findings and aid the design of future research.
• Preparation of materials (work piece, tooling, fixtures, etc.) and set up of equipment for experiments.
• Develop skills through external or on the job training, suitable to accomplish the engineering and project tasks required.
• Communicate data and results to internal and external stakeholders at all levels in a professional and concise manner.
• Plan and carry out tasks and responsibilities over the short-medium term, with an awareness of longer-term issues to meet the research objectives set in a project.
• Produce detailed and accurate project documentation such as statements of work, experiment methodology and quality gate sheets.
• Perform machining activities as required by project deliverables.
• Working alongside the Project Management team to plan and order appropriate tooling, materials and hardware ahead of project requirements.
• Work with the engineering team to enable smooth transitions of project deliveries and machine demonstration.
• Carry out other duties, commensurate with the grade and remit of the post.