Technician (Data Support) - Parkgate, United Kingdom - SRUC Scotland's Rural College

SRUC Scotland's Rural College
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Title:
Technician (Data Support)


Type:
Permanent, Part-Time (22.2 hours per week)


Salary:
£25,889 -£29,807 per annum, pro rata


Strength in Places - Digital Dairy Chain
The UK is the third-largest milk producer in Europe and eleventh in the world. It produces 14.9 billion litres each year, with a farm-gate value of £3.7 billion.

Global demand is expected to grow by around 5% per annum to 2025. The UK is cost competitive and well placed to take advantage of emerging markets. Processors have made significant capital investment (£867M in five years), pursuing innovation strategiesand new market opportunities.


Led by SRUC, the Digital Dairy Chain could generate an additional £60m a year for a region which produces nearly two billion litres of milk a year.

Globally, the industry produces around 3 per cent of greenhouse gases related to human activity.

As well as helping to decarbonise the region's dairy industry, the project will help to develop and retain a skilled and innovative workforce in the area tocreate new products and new ways of working.


These will be special to the region but also globally relevant in best practices and changing the perception of dairy as a high-value product.


Working with partners operating in the region, including the University of Strathclyde, University of the West of Scotland, CENSIS, First Milk, Lactalis UK & Ireland, Kendal Nutricare, Cows & Co Group, National Milk Records and SmartSTEMS, the project willprovide a platform for research and business innovation in advanced, sustainable, high-value production and processing.


The project team will work with the dairy industry to develop and implement technologies for sensing and data handling, as well as infrastructure to support innovation and growth for local businesses, nurturing young entrepreneurs and teaching and trainingof new skills and capabilities.

It will deliver advanced manufacturing processes to create a fully integrated and traceable supply chain as well as help businesses to develop new products and explore new markets.

After receiving £21.3m from the UKRI Strength in Places fund, the project will be based at SRUC's Barony campus near Dumfries, as well as at sites in Cumbria and across South-West Scotland


Based in SRUC's Dairy Research & Innovation Centre in Dumfries and working with a wide range of project partners and stakeholders across South-West Scotland and Cumbria, the purpose of this post is to develop data driven R&D projects as part of the excitingnew Strength in Places Project "Digital Dairy Value-Chain for SW Scotland and Cumbria."SRUC is leading this 5-year, £21.3 million project along with University of Strathclyde, University of the West of Scotland, CENSIS, First Milk Limited, LactalisMcLellandLimited, Kendal Nutricare Limited, Cows & Co Group Limited, National Milk Records PLC and SmartSTEMs.


  • Monitoring, checking, entry and reporting of data relevant to carbon and biodiversity KPIs. Initially this will involve work with the Langhill database, and this will build to involve databases for the 'DigitalAgrecalc' project.
  • Liaison with SAC consultants and labs over feed analysis and entry on the Langhill database.
  • Identification and implementation of new opportunities to record farm data (or increase granularity of recording) relevant to carbon footprinting and biodiversity.
  • Support researchers in recording data from new instrumentation.
  • Contribute to reporting of carbon footprint and biodiversity metrics, including current Arla requirements, and anticipated future metrics.
  • Producing a dashboard of carbon and biodiversity metrics for publication on the SRUC website and in teaching and consultancy programmes.

Closing date:10 February 2023

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