Internship Opportunity at Granta Design:
Environmental Materials-Information Consultant

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Granta Design Limited is a leader in development of information and selection technology for materials and processes. Worldwide, our customers depend on our unique software, property reference databases, and customization services to implement material and process information solutions. Founded in 1994 as a spin-off from the work of Professor Mike Ashby, our investors include Cambridge University and ASM International—the US-based professional society for materials engineers.

Based in the beautiful city of Cambridge, we offer a friendly, informal work environment and a great chance to advance your career by joining a growing, high-calibre team at an exciting point in the company's development.

Granta is looking for a candidate with an engineering, materials or environmental background to join our team for a 12-month internship. The role will cover a range of technical and commercial projects that will support the development of Granta's eco design software solutions. Successful completion of the internship could lead to a long-term position. Salary is competitive and dependent on experience and qualifications with 25 days holiday (and 9 public holidays).

Main Duties

Environmental data research

• Develop environmental data products (for example energy, carbon footprinting): plan, research, build, and maintain information resources for materials, processes and entire product life cycles.
• Develop modelling capabilities for material and process eco properties. Data mining and estimation to create additional datasets for the Granta databases.
• Testing of software to ensure accuracy and consistency of calculations.
• Report to the Environmental Product Specialist and the internal team on project progress and the implementation of new analytical methods where applicable.

Software Training

• Help train customers to use the Granta Eco Audit software. Granta often does on-site or Internet-based training for its customers. The intern would be required to elp run these courses.
• Customise training courses for specific customer needs.
• Create additional course content, case studies and exercises as the need arises.

Why do our interns value their time at Granta?

• You will have a very good chance of getting full time employment either with Granta, our partners or our customers
• You will gain valuable experience working in a small, but innovative & international company
• You will work on highly relevant projects which ultimately form part of the Granta product line
• You will learn new skills, especially IT related ones.

Requirements

• A Bachelors or higher degree (e.g. PhD, MSc.) in materials science, engineering or environmental science.
• Good knowledge of one or more of the following:
• Materials & Processes—The minimum is for the candidate to have covered engineering materials as part of a general engineering course;  
• Environmental product assessment or eco design—Good understanding of the principles of energy, carbon footprinting and other environmental factors and some of the data-related challenges in this area i.e. precision, system boundaries etc.  You might have experience of Life Cycle Assessment.
• Some computing background. Good Excel skills at the minimum, preferably some programming experience, e.g. Visual Basic. A genuine interest in developing their IT skills.
• Must have a reasonable command of the English language.

Please send your CV or resume with a covering letter explaining how you suit the position to jobs@grantadesign.com.

Granta software is used by engineering enterprises in sectors including aerospace, energy, and medical

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