Open positions at Teknova
Teknova is a research institute located in the southern part of Norway with offices in Kristiansand and Grimstad. Among our customers are world leading, regionally located companies. Teknova’s customers include equipment suppliers to the oil and gas industry, companies within renewable energy, and companies operating large scale processes for metal production.
Author: Teknova
Published: Tuesday 12. February 2013
We are an institute with strong focus on further developing the good relations with our local industrial partners, as well as building national and international collaborations and networks. Our team consists of highly educated, motivated and enthusiastic researchers who combine their theoretical strength with practical problem solving.
Would you like to join our team?
We are looking for:
· The ability to cooperate with both industry and academia
· Interest and ability for project generation
· Experience from writing applications / financing applications
· Experience from project management
· Initiative and interest of acquiring new knowledge
· The ability to apply knowledge to solve problems
· Good communication and presentation skills
· Minimum level of education: Master
As a team member at Teknova, you must be prepared to face challenges of great complexity and be able to apply your knowledge to several markets / areas. You will be working on project- and R&D-assignments in collaboration with industry and other research institutions.
We are looking for researchers with relevant background within:
Oil & Gas related projects:
· Industrial mathematics
· Applied mathematics
· Statistics
· Condition monitoring and analysis
· Machine vision
· Technical physics
· Data mining
· Reliability analysis towards:
o Hydraulic systems
o Mechanical systems
o Electronic systems
· Process modelling
· Scenario based prediction:
o Physics
o Mathematics
Mathematical Modeling:
Mathematical modeling of process metallurgical challenges, such as Physical based models for Up-Scaling. For this and other challenges you will need a strong theoretical base within:
· Mathematics
· Physics
· Chemistry
· Metallurgy
We are looking for people with relevant knowledge and experience for the development of intelligent and integrated systems for Renewable Energy, in particular the application of renewable energy in buildings (including building-integrated photovoltaics and thermal systems), grid-integration of renewable energy, smart grid and power transmission, storage and control of renewable energy, instrumentation and measurement of energy flow, simulation and modeling of energy systems. For this we are looking for relevant skills in one or more of the following areas:
· Electric control systems
· Electric power engineering
· Mathematical modeling and simulation
· Physics
· Building physics and instrumentation
· Thermodynamics
· Statistics
We seek outgoing individuals with internal drive to take a leading role in Teknova’s development in this area.
Cybernetics and control:
· Multivariate statistical process control
· Knowledge discovery and data mining
· Machine learning
· Mechatronics
· Fault detection and diagnosis
· Decision support systems
Non destructive contactless testing of materials:
· Laser ultrasound
· EMAT
· Eddy current
Send your applicaction to: post@teknova.no before 4th of March 2013.
Attachment: CV, list of courses (with grades) from your master / PhD. Abstract from your Master- and/or PhD-thesis.

