Job Opportunities

Any vacancies related to BuildZero are below

For informal discussion about the role, please contact Dr. Stephen Allen on mn0sra@bath.ac.uk.

We are looking for a researcher to join our team work on an exciting multi-institution project on circular economy. Within this project, your focus will be on understanding the environmental footprint of circular ecomony strategies into the future. To do this, you will conduct prospective prospective life cycle assessment of BuildZero strategies. This is essential to ensure that selected strategies really do move us towards zero carbon and zero waste construction when the whole life cycle is considered. To conduct your work, you will be an integrak member of the large multidisciplinary BuildZero project team, and you will also contribute to wider project tasks, events and outputs. 

Our Ideal candidate will have: 

• Completed a PhD in a relevant discipline. 

• Expertise in life cycle assessment.

• Experience using Brightway 2 and/or openLCA, or other relevent experience in programming (particularly Python).

• Familiarity with issues of circular economy and the built environment, though this could be substituted by a strong ability for interdiscipinary collaboration and a willingness to learn. 

• The ability to organise and prioritise your own workload, and to work in a broad interdisciplinary team, both in Bath and across the wider project. 

• Excellent oral, interpersoanl and written communication skills.