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If you want to make a difference and are looking for the best possible place to satisfy your personal ambitions and curiosity for developing composite materials technologies, you might be our new colleague. At DTU Wind and Energy Systems, you will join a team of dedicated scientists, engineers, and research technicians – working together with the overall goal of exploring and understanding fiber-reinforced composite materials for wind turbine blades. 

Over the last 40 years, wind turbine blades have grown in magnitude and complexity. This development is closely linked with an improved understanding of the performance of composite materials. Experimental work in the DTU Wind and Energy Systems MaterialsLab is coupled with research and development on the special characteristics of composites covering central themes of cure cycle design, manufacturing, leading edge erosion, recycling, and Mechanical performance. 

The job
The position will be anchored in the Composites Manufacturing and Testing Section with 28 employees. You will become a member of the MaterialsLab team where you will contribute to the work on developing technologies across the lab core competences linked to manufacturing, characterization and testing of fiber-reinforced composites. Furthermore, some activities in our ComponentsLab part of the same division could require your competences.   

Your focus will be on manufacturing, characterizing, and testing composite material involving examination of the entire chain from single glass and carbon fibers and their properties to documented processing of composite laminates, and finally to accredited mechanical testing by standard methods, as well as the development of new techniques linked to composites testing, coatings erosion or other materials.  

Your main responsibilities can be summarized in: 

• Responsible for test campaigns linked to our industrial partners and research projects under a wide variety of loads 
• Perform and document permeability measurements campaigns 
• Perform and document manufacturing of test laminates by vacuum infusion process 
• Perform and document Component or Blade manufacturing by vacuum infusion process 
• Characterization of constituents and composites with gas pycnometer, DSC and DMA 
• Development of scripts for data analysis using Python and Matlab 
• Evaluation of data and reporting  

Our expectations of you
The successful applicant will have the following qualifications: 

• Master's degree in a relevant engineering discipline (e.g. Materials Engineering/Mechanical Engineering/Processing Engineering), or equivalent  
• Experience in manufacturing, characterization and testing of fiber-reinforced polymer composites for wind turbine blades or other applications 
• Experience in programming, e.g. Python, Matlab 
• Flexible, proactive, autonomous, structured, easy-going, team player  
• Practical and result-oriented 
• Experience with project work and delivering at deadlines 
• Experience, and interest in, writing scientific publications, conferences as well as project proposals 
• Fluent in English in writing and speaking (English is the work language) 
• Quality driven and awareness around accreditation (ISO17025) is an advantage 
• Have a high level of awareness on Health and Safety 
• Industrial experience is an advantage  

What we offer in return
We offer an interesting and challenging job in an international atmosphere with focus on research, teaching, innovation and scientific advice for the benefit of the society, contributing to accelerate the green transition. We place emphasis on a high level of professionalism among our staff, so skills development is an integral part of our organization. We offer a great flexibility in the position. 

Salary and appointment terms
Salary and employment conditions in accordance with the OAO-S joint agreement and organization agreement for Engineering Assistants and research technicians at research institutions or the collective agreement with the Danish Confederation of Professional Associations. 

The position is a full-time position, and the workplace is DTU Risø Campus. The daily working language is English. 

Application and contact
Please submit your online application no later than 20  April 2025. Open the “Apply now” link, fill out the form and attach your motivated application, CV and exam certificates. 

If you would like additional information about the position, please contact Head of Section Anthony Fraisse, tel.: +45 93511564, antf@dtu.dk ,  

Applications received after the deadline will not be considered. 

Applications received after the deadline will not be considered.

All interested candidates irrespective of age, gender, disability, race, religion or ethnic background are encouraged to apply. As DTU works with research in critical technology, which is subject to special rules for security and export control, open-source background checks may be conducted on qualified candidates for the position.

DTU Wind and Energy Systems has more than 400 staff members, including 150 academic staff members and approximately 50 PhD students. DTU Wind and Energy Systems has a considerable degree of innovation and cooperation with companies and sector associations within the wind industry in Denmark and abroad. DTU Wind and Energy Systems is one of the largest and most prominent research institutions within wind energy.  

Technology for people
DTU develops technology for people. With our international elite research and study programmes, we are helping to create a better world and to solve the global challenges formulated in the UN’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals. Hans Christian Ørsted founded DTU in 1829 with a clear mission to develop and create value using science and engineering to benefit society. That mission lives on today. DTU has 13,500 students and 6,000 employees. We work in an international atmosphere and have an inclusive, evolving, and informal working environment. DTU has campuses in all parts of Denmark and in Greenland, and we collaborate with the best universities around the world.

• Job Identification 5012
• Job Category TAP
• Posting Date 04/04/2025, 11:28 AM
• Apply Before 04/20/2025, 10:59 PM
• Locations Frederiksborgvej 399, Roskilde, 4000, DK