43 Vacancies

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. So, when it comes to the standards that we need to meet ...

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 associate...

Our world-leading Time & Frequency department are seeking an experienced and practicing Windows 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 associated with our ...

Our world-leading Time & Frequency department are seeking an experienced and practicing Software 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 associated with our dependen...

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. T...

The National Physical Laboratory, UK, seeks a PhD candidate for a prestigious MSCA Doctoral Network position. The candidate will play a pivotal role in the MENTOR project on environmentally friendly indoor photovoltaics. Working on the topic "New methods for accurate and reproducible assessment of performance, losses and reliability in indoor PV cells a...

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...

We have a permanent position for an assistant scientist to work with our gamma-ray spectrometry team in the nuclear metrology group, supporting the vital role gamma-ray spectrometry plays in our scientific research and calibration services to deliver exceptional impact across medicine, nuclear power, and environmental monitoring. As an assistant scientist, you will be expected to be a hi...

Are you interested in developing a career in environmental monitoring and research? At NPL, we are looking for an MCERTS Level 2 emissions monitoring team leader with a real passion for tackling air pollution and climate change who can work within our active NPL industrial emissions team and who has an interest to develop their career in environmental measurement and metro...

We're seeking a talented Site Operations Leader to manage the delivery of a broad portfolio of operations and facilities management services across NPL's Teddington and Wraysbury estates. Working as a leader in the NPL Estates department and closely with NPL internal and external stakeholders, the role is required to ensure the provision of safe workplaces and effective and efficient operation o...

If you are expected to achieve at least a 2:1 in an analytical degree e.g., economics/statistics/mathematics/physics and would like to enhance your employability through relevant work experience, an industrial placement with the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) gives you the opportunity to provide hands-on support to our excellent team of economists and data analysts. The Analysis & Evalu...

Please note, this role is known internally as Higher Engineer We are looking for a Dimensional Metrologist to join our Manufacturing Metrology Group. This group is based in Huddersfield and has a mission to provide confidence in measurement to manufacturing companies across the UK. Due to an increasing focus on non-contact metrology techniques, we are looking for a metrologist to und...