22 Vacancies

Are you ready to lead the transformation of technical operations across infrastructure, networking, and telecoms? If you're passionate about simplifying complex systems, driving innovation, and building high-performing teams, this is your opportunity to make a lasting impact. About the Role As our Technical Operations Transformation Director, you'll be at the heart of heart of UK...

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 ...

This Role Speaks to You If.. . You've always been curious about how things work—especially when it comes to telecoms systems like 5G, fibre broadband, or Open RAN. Maybe you know IP/TCP/HTTP but here you will work with SCTP/ NGAP / 5G SBI in carrier grade implementations that no one else has this level of access to! Whether you've worked in the field professionally or you've be...

We're seeking a Senior Programme Controller to work on NPL's National Timing Centre Delivery Programme (NTCDP) - a high-profile, complex initiative at the heart of the UK's future Critical National Infrastructure. The NTCDP is the UK's first nationally-distributed timekeeping infrastructure. It aims to provide trusted and assured time and frequency distribution; reducing reliance on...

We're seeking a Programme Controller to work on NPL's National Timing Centre Delivery Programme (NTCDP) - a high-profile, complex initiative at the heart of the UK's future Critical National Infrastructure. The NTCDP is the UK's first nationally-distributed timekeeping infrastructure. It aims to provide trusted and assured time and frequency distribution; reducing reliance on Gl...

At NPL, we're not just shaping the future of science and engineering – we're transforming how we work to support it. As we seek better ways of working, deliver sustainable, outcome-focused results, and drive broader organisational change, we're looking for an experienced Business Change Manager to lead our Business Change Management (BCM) team. This is a pivotal l...

Who sets the standards, to ensure that anything that can be measured is done so with consistency and reliability? We do. Through our vital research, the National Physical Laboratory is helping support scientific and commercial innovations, international trade, environmental protection and health and wellbeing. A lot of which we simply couldn't do without the support of the IT Services team...

NPL is seeking an experienced Higher Scientist based in Teddington to plan and deliver a number of technical activities to take our research to the next level. This full-time Research Scientist job comes with a generous salary and benefits package. As a Higher Scientist, you'll be expected to acquire new knowledge to find solutions to advance our research. Also, if commercial opportunities ...

Recycled plastics are essential to achieving circular economy goals, but they often suffer from batch-to-batch variability, making it difficult for industry to predict and control product performance. This PhD project will tackle that challenge by applying advanced polymer characterisation techniques to better understand and quantify the quality of recycled materials, particularly polyolefin...

We have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Salesforce Administrator / Developer (Technical Specialist) at NPL. The focus for this role is to lead on the design, development, and support of the platform. You'll be joining the Enterprise Systems team. This role will be looked upon to execute and lead on technical implementations and integrations, ensuring best practices a...

As our People Advisor, you'll be part of the team that's advising, guiding and coaching managers across the business to help us deliver our vision and mission. As we continue to grow, you'll: Be at the forefront in providing expert advice and support to our management population to navigate the full remit of employee relations (ER) cases from start to finish ...

Our world-leading Time & Frequency department are seeking an experienced and practicing Timing and Synchronisation Engineer with a background in Electronic Engineering. 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...