Research Associate, Infrastructure Life Cycle

6 months ago

Ottawa, Canada National Research Council Canada Full time

Great Minds. One Goal. Canada's Success.

Help bring research to life and drive your career forward with the National Research Council of Canada (NRC), Canada's largest research and technology organization.

We are looking for an **early-career** Research Associate, Infrastructure Life-cycle Assessment (RA, Infrastructure LCA), to support our Construction Research Centre. The RA would be someone who shares our core values of Integrity, Excellence, Respect and Creativity.

For the following years, the work will focus on bridges and roadways, construction materials and products. Work in support of other LCI/LCA opportunities is possible. Other main duties include:

- Development of proposals for new research initiatives, project management, and providing service to NRC clients.
- Providing technical leadership that will guide and contribute to research and development activities that provide the technical underpinnings to a large multi-party initiative that aims to produce guidelines, benchmarks, industry collaborations, and calculation tools.
- Interacting with diverse stakeholders, including representatives of government, industry and academia.
- Providing input into the overall direction and research priorities or the program area within the context of the Construction Research Centre strategic plan.

**Screening Criteria**:
**Education**:
As part of the RA Program you must have received your **PhD or Masters** in Engineering with an emphasis on Civil Engineering infrastructure and life cycle assessment (LCA) within the last five years or you expect to receive the degree within the next six months.

A PhD or Master’s degree in a related field received within the last 5 years or to be received within the next 6 months, combined with significant experience of applied research in life cycle assessment, may also be considered.

For information on certificates and diplomas issued abroad, please see Degree equivalency

**Experience**:

- Significant experience in research proposal development, project execution, documentation, and reporting.
- Significant experience in written and oral communication to a broad range of audiences, such as industry, conferences, trade shows, community professionals, and review committees.
- Experience in working with diverse stakeholders and/or clients;
The following may be considered assets:
- Experience in Life Cycle Cost Analysis LCCA of civil engineering infrastructures.
- Experience related to climate sustainability and resilience and of the built environment.
- Experience working on guideline development, standard, or code, and leading and developing the documentation for consultative exercises.
- Experience in infrastructure codes/standards, and the building design and construction process would be an asset.
- Experience in programming (e.g. SQL, Python, R).

**Significant experience: 2 - 6 years of related experience

**Condition of Employment**:
Reliability Status

**Language Requirements**:
English

Information on language requirements and self-assessment tests

**Assessment Criteria**:
**Technical Competencies**:

- Solid ability to conduct life cycle assessment (LCA) including gathering data, creating models, interpreting results, and using LCA software.
- Solid understanding of infrastructure systems and components.
- Solid ability to develop and execute research and/or LCA projects.
- Familiarity with LCI databases and solid ability to develop Life cycle inventory (LCI) datasets.
- Knowledge of infrastructure design, construction and management would be an asset.
- Knowledge of Life Cycle Cost Analysis (LCCA) of building and infrastructure would be an asset.

**Behavioural Competencies**:

- Research - Creative thinking (Level 2)
- Research - Communication (Level 2)
- Research - Networking (Level 2)
- Research - Teamwork (Level 1)
- Research - Initiative (Level 2)

**Competency Profile(s)**:
**Compensation**:
The intent of this hiring action is to staff through the Research Associate (RA) Program at the** RCO-2/AsRO** level, which is an **early-career level** position with a salary range of **$74,230 to $103,093 a**nnually.

NRC employees enjoy a wide-range of competitive benefits including comprehensive health and dental plans, vacation, sick, and other leave entitlements, disability insurance and pension plans.

**The NRC Advantage**:
The National Research Council of Canada (NRC) is the Government of Canada's largest research organization supporting industrial innovation, the advancement of knowledge and technology development. We collaborate with over 70 colleges, universities and hospitals annually, work with 800 companies on their projects, and provide advice or funding to over 8000 Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) each year.

We bring together the brightest minds to deliver tangible impacts on the lives of Canadians and people around the world. And now, we want to partner with you. Let your expertise and inspirations make an impact by joining the NRC

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