Senior Technical Officer Fire Research Lab Support
Prepare specimens for fire testing, and to cut and take sample cores for post fire analysis. Maintain specialized furnaces and thermocouple measurement equipment. Help to design cutting edge new equipment. Advise staff and students for the design of new experiments and equipment. This may involve steel fabrication as a fitter and turner, Repair and installation thermal insulation, and hydraulic actuators.Help to design and maintain specialized Instrumentation, such as high temperature thermometry, load cells, strain gauges, oxygen calorimetry and data logging.Responsibilities: Loading, set-up and helping with the operation and servicing of large-scale furnace, assembly of test rigs with complex electro-mechanical, hydraulic systems and thermocouple instrumentation.Achievements: Designed, constructed and installed borescope cooling systems, with both air and water-cooling. I helped to redesign the bi-axial rig heat shields. Constructed a movable wall standing trolley, Organized the repair of our old Oxygen gas analyzer for the ISO room and open combustion rig.