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Director Strategic UG Mine Planning Peabody Energy Brisbane
Peabody Energy Australia is a subsidiary of Peabody Energy (NYSE: BTU), the world’s largest private-sector coal company and a Fortune 500 company.  Peabody Energy has been active since 1883 and currently has majority interests in 30 mining operations worldwide.  Within Australia, Peabody Energy has eleven operations in Queensland and New South Wales...

Director Engineering Narrabri Shire Council NSW
Narrabri is one of the thriving centres in NSW, with its strong agricultural economy and major growth of mining and coal seam gas extraction. The Council is at a crucial stage of rebuilding to meet these challenges with a new and more responsive Community Strategic. Plan ready to be adopted. Council is seeking to appoint a suitably qualified and highly motivated...

Project Manager - Building Services - Perth - Newly Created Role FMPLUS Recruitment Consultants Perth
Mechanical – Electrical – Fire - Hydraulics Report straight to the Directors – Excellent career prospects This award winning Australian Multi Discipline Engineering Design Consultancy provides technical excellence in the Commercial, Industrial and Resources sectors throughout Australia. With their...

Early Childhood Teacher - 1445279TW Early Learning Placements Sydney
Inner West location 4 x 10 hour days or 5 x 8hr days (you choose) Ability to have input into a new centre's environment Early Learning Placements offers jobseekers Sydney’s best recruitment service. We currently have numerous roles with fantastic centres available for Early Childhood staff across Sydney on both a permanent,...

Principal Civil Engineer | Management & Business Development - Perm - Melbourne Aspect Personnel VIC
About the company Delivering projects in a multitude of sectors, this is a consultancy synonymous with quality and innovation. Within the group capabilities extend through all stages of a project from project conception to completion.  Whilst they have offices nationally and globally, their Melbourne hub lies conveniently close to public...

Auditors Assistant | Mid Tier Environmental Consultancy | Melbourne Aspect Personnel Melbourne
Located on the CBD fringe our client is a mid-size environmental consultancy servicing loyal clients on a broad range of projects across contaminated land and remediation projects. they have established themselves as a reputable and reliable consultancy with a track record for successful project delivery. E They now have a great opportunity for an...

One Planet Living Australian Tour - Sydney Series BioRegionalAustralia Sydney
  BioRegional Australia is proud to bring to Sydney from the UK Pooran Desai co-founder of BioRegional One Planet Living and One Planet Communities. One Planet Living (OPL) is a vision of a sustainable world in which people can lead healthy and happy lives within their fair share of the Earth's resources. Using the above 10 One Planet...

Team Leader, Strategic Water Planning - 00001NZC NSW Government Water Solutions Sydney
Reference No.  00001NZC Location:   Sydney Region-Sydney City Work Type:   Full-time Total Remuneration Package:   Package includes salary ($115,359 -$117 631), and employer’s contribution to superannuation [and annual leave loading.] Job Category:   Engineering...

Information Geoscientist Department of Primary Industries Melbourne
Status: Full Time Fixed Term Location: 55 Collins St Melbourne Salary: $69 242 to $78 563 + super. Position No: 706417 The Geological Survey of Victoria (GSV) is investigating the potential impact of coal seam gas and large coal mining development on Victoria’s groundwater resources and is seeking to appoint an Information...

Senior Environmental Oil and Gas Engineer/Scientist Reference No. WVE00FYM Sinclair Knight Merz Perth
Job Number:   WVE00FYM Schedule :   Full-time Primary Location :   Australia-WA-Perth Description Great opportunity to lead and mentor teams as well as maintain technical exposure Successful applicants must have O&G experience as well as writing...


Latest Research Jobs

Postdoctoral Research Associate University of Technology Sydney Sydney
The ithree institute at the University of Technology has an exciting opportunity for a Postdoctoral Research Associate. Fixed Term 2 Year Contract Lead a team which is focused on continuous improvement of their services Flexible working environment with 17% Superannuation contributions The ithree institute at the University of...
Postdoctoral Fellow Crop Physiology International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) International
Join Us - Make a Difference!   PDF-2013-05-MD The International Rice Research Institute is calling for excellent candidates for a 3-year PDF project funded by private sector. It aims at analyzing the phenomics and genetic control of lodging resistance (LR) traits and their trade-offs with yield potential (YP) through physiological...

Research Jobs and Careers in Australia

The role of the Research and Development (R&D) manager is to determine, implement and monitor R&D strategies and plans to support commercial and policy developments. They are often required to assess business operations, deliver reports and opinions to management and perhaps publish R&D findings.

R&D managers are well qualified, 100% have tertiary qualifications, predominantly a bachelor or higher degree. Wages are commensurate with qualifications: the average weekly wage is $1668, that is $86,736 annually. The gender break up of R&D managers is 70:30 in favor of men, and within the sector the vast majority (almost nine in ten) work full-time.

In the research industry, the average age is 45 years, more than half are aged over 45 (in contrast with national average of 35.2%), but from the years 2006 to 2011, employment levels of R&D managers plummeted by 21.5% to a nationwide tally of 7600 which is in sharp contrast to the average growth across all occupations of 10.2% during that same period.

During each of the years to 2017, employment is tipped to fall 1.7%. And in other statistics –derived from research, of course! – around 8.2% of R&D managers leave the occupation each year. This is lower than the national average of 14.2%.

References: ABS Labour Force Survey, DEEWR, www.jobsoutlook.gov.au, wikipedia.
 

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