21 Vacancies

Fixed Term Contract 6 months Through our vital research, the National Physical Laboratory is helping support scientific and commercial innovations, international trade, environmental protection and health and wellbeing. When our work is on such a huge scale, it's vital we keep a check on our finances. At NPL, we touch ordinary lives in extraordinary ways, what if you could too? ...

Be the Strategic Force Behind UKTL's Leadership Team Are you ready to take your executive support skills to the next level? As Executive Assistant to the UKTL leadership team, you'll be at the heart of strategic coordination and operational excellence. This is more than just diary management — it's your opportunity to shape how our senior leaders deliver impact across teams and ...

Whether you're talking about length, mass, time, temperature, electric current, amount or the brightness of light, the National Physical Laboratory sets the standards by which these things are all measured. Every department has their own set of unique needs. As their Administrator, you'll get to understand exactly what those needs are, and then help everything run as smoothly as possible. This is...

Our world-leading Time & Frequency department are seeking a Senior Network Engineer with hands-on infrastructure and network design and implementation experience. 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 Infrastr...

Our Estates team ensures NPL provides a safe, secure, and sustainable workplace—maximising the value of our buildings to support our people, programmes, and long-term goals. We're looking for a Compliance Manager to lead statutory compliance across our estate, with a focus on the Teddington and Wraysbury sites. Reporting to the Hard Services Leader, you'll play a key role in maint...

Join NPL's Estates team and help shape the future of our built environment. We're looking for a strategic leader to drive the delivery of estates programmes that support world-class science and innovation. In this role, you'll manage a team of colleagues, providing leadership and guidance to ensure successful programme delivery. You'll report directly to the Head of Estates and work closely ...

NPL is the UK's National Metrology Institute. Our role is to research, create and deliver the measurement infrastructure which underpins the UK's prosperity and quality of life across many fields of industry. The National Physical Laboratory (NPL) is seeking an experienced Senior Research Scientist to join our team in Teddington. Som...

What You'll Be Doing as a Standards Lead at UKTL As a Standards Lead, you will play a pivotal role in representing UKTL's interests across UK, European, and international telecoms standards bodies, with a particular focus on security and resilience. This is a high-impact, internal and external-facing position that will establish UKTL as a credible and influential voice in the glo...

Launch Your Career in Telecoms Security with UKTL Are you ready to make a real impact in the world of telecoms? If you're a recent graduate with a passion for technology, security, and innovation, the UK Telecoms Lab (UKTL) Graduate Programme could be the perfect next step for you. What You'll Be Doing As a Graduate Engineer on our two-year programme, you'll dive ...

We have an exciting opportunity for a Scientist to join the Measurement Services team within NPL's Dimensional Metrology Group. The Dimensional Metrology Group is a world leader in delivering dimensional measurements, together with research and development of new techniques and novel instruments. We focus on the measurement of 'length' – including distance, displacement, posit...

NPL are looking to recruit an Higher Scientist to work in the Ultrasound and Underwater Acoustics Group within the Underwater Acoustics area. We are looking for early career scientists and engineers, ideally with a graduate qualification in Physics, Acoustics or related discipline, with either experience in industry or academia or post-graduate qualification. As an Acoustical Higher Scienti...

Whether you're talking about length, mass, time, temperature, electric current, amount or the brightness of light, the National Physical Laboratory sets the standards by which these things are all measured. As an organisation we're doing so many great things. As our Internal Communications Specialist, you'll share what we're up to with our people, so that they're as excited about o...