32 Vacancies

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. Some of the day to day duties and responsibilities of the Se...

Put simply, we set the standards by which everything is measured. In doing so, the National Physical Laboratory is helping to combat issues on a global scale such as climate change, curing diseases and the development of cutting-edge communications technology . In what is an exciting period of change, our Exec u tive team need s the highest quality support to allow them...

Please note internally this role is known as "Senior Strategic Procurement Business Partner" Put simply, we set the standards by which everything is measured. In doing so, the National Physical Laboratory is helping to combat issues on a global scale such as climate change, curing diseases and the development of cutting-edge communications technology. To further our success, it's import...

Addressing climate change, meeting targets such as net zero and creating a sustainable future for humanity are among the biggest challenges that society faces today. Scientific measurement plays a key role across the board, to understand the Earth system, to identify the potential for innovation, to assuring innovations do deliver as intended. To increase our understanding of the climate sy...

NPL's Intellectual Property underpins much of NPL's work and supports the real-world impact created through adoption of NPL technologies. We have a proud record of commercialisation - our IP has supported the growth of UK companies as well as the commercialisation of innovative NPL solutions through routes such as spin-outs, licensing and NPL's products and services. Recent examples inc...

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. Given the nature of our work, we take the health and safety of our people very seriou...

Please note, this role is known as 'Higher Engineer' internally. As a Project Engineer, you'll lead the engineering process on projects and at every stage you'll be looking to see that the highest quality technical solutions are applied, cost-effectively and within schedule. You'll also review technical submissions, generate estimates and use your technical knowledge to appraise equipme...

NPL has an ever-evolving IT and technical landscape. You will be joining our small Solution Architecture (SA) team near the start of our journey, to lead on Solution Architectures across a range of individual projects, developing ideas and solutions to meet the needs of the business: Pure SaaS, COTS, low code, custom coded software and database-only projects, through to full spectrum softwar...

The National Physical Laboratory is the UK's leading centre for measurement science, engineering, and technology. We develop national measurement standards, support scientific and commercial innovation, and collaborate with industries to ensure precision in products and processes. Through our important scientific and research work we address key challenges in health, energy, ...

Our world-leading Time & Frequency department seek an experienced and practicing Quality Lead . As Senior Quality Lead, you'll enjoy partnering with prominent Scientists, Engineers, leaders and specialists in Time & Frequency. You will be responsible for ensuring quality and compliance with NPL's quality management system in the development of novel science, running of time scale service...

Our world-leading Time & Frequency department are seeking an experienced and practicing Senior Software Engineer with proven expertise in DevOps automation and container orchestration . 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...

Our world-leading Time & Frequency department are seeking an experienced and practicing Unix Platform 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. This will address the risks associat...