Department

Environment and Geography

Salary

£37,694 - £46,049 per year

Grade

Grade 6

Contract status

Fixed term

Hours of work

Full-time

Based at

University of York campus

Interview date

w/c 05/10/2026

Posted Date

20/08/2026

Apply by

10/09/2026

Job Reference

15270

Documents

Job description 15270.pdf (PDF, 251.02kb)

Role Description

Department

The Department of Environment and Geography at the University of York wishes to recruit a Technical Manager to manage and oversee the custom-designed INTERIORS (The Interdisciplinary Facility for Indoor Air Quality Research) Facility. INTERIORS combines realistic home environments (a ’Passivhaus’ and a house typical of current UK housing stock) and state-of-the-art air pollution instrumentation. A central laboratory between the two houses, will enable measurements of key indoor air pollutants while experiments are carried out in the houses (e.g. cooking and cleaning).





The successful candidate will be part of a supportive and community-oriented department with a strong commitment to upholding our core values (embracing diversity, making a positive difference, environmental sustainability, being friendly and helpful, and always learning). The department is proud to hold an Athena Swan Silver Award. The successful candidate will also work closely with staff in the Wolfson Atmospheric Chemistry Laboratories (WACL) in the Department of Chemistry, an experimentally intensive research facility, with more than £3M in state-of-the-art equipment. WACL supports an exceptional research setting with a wide range of interdisciplinary expertise.

Role

You will maintain and operate the equipment in the INTERIORS facility, including undertaking regular calibrations. Instruments in the facility measure a range of key indoor air pollutants, including CO2, CO, NO, NO2, HONO, HCHO, NH3, O3, CH4, a range of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and both fine and coarse mode particulate species. A large part of the role is to

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