Research Department
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| Research Department | |
| Date Organised | 20XX |
| Current Director | Megan Truhausen |
| Employee # | ~50,000 |
Overview
ANRC's Research Department is the largest and most important department to the operations of the company, being where nearly 40% of employees end up working. It is active across almost every ANRC site globally, and also maintains a slurry of sub-departments relating to specific needs of some sites.
Primarily, Research handles the scientific side of ANRC's operations, supporting researchers and scientists along their journey of hypothesis, tests, and etcetera. The Department is similarly responsible for all products that the company pushes out. They often end up collaborating with the Engineering & Technology Department on a regular basis.
Asakura Nakatomi has a personal interest in the Department, and is a senior advisor to the department.
Chain of Command
To effectively operate, the Department has a clear and short structure.
- Director of Research
- Board of Science
- Leading Researcher / Project Leader
- Senior Researcher
- Researcher
- Junior Researcher
- Intern / Lab Assistant
Most employees never achieve higher than Researcher or Senior Researcher during their employment at ANRC, with Leading or Board being extremely rare positions to have.
Project Leader is an individual rank issued to anybody currently in charge of a research project, which is not very common. Most staff end up assisting various projects rather than leading their own, as only the brightest and most encouraged staff will end up going through the proposal process.
To individualize certain ranks, the RD established a coat-line system to indicate who is of what rank. (Graphic image TBD)
Board of Research
The Board of Research was established roughly 4 years after the department's organisation, and consists of some of the most experienced or oldest scientists among Research staff, with the current Board member count being only 12 members.
The Board primarily convenes on matters regarding proposed research projects or issues with on-going projects, often meeting with Project Leaders to receive updates and to issue on-the-fly orders or cancellations. They're considered as the first line to meet with when proposing the project.
The Board of Research is under the direction of the current Director of Research, and responds to nobody else but the CEO or COO of ANRC.
Notable Staff
ANRC has hired multiple notable staff under the Research Department, of which some of the more relevant are mentioned below.
- Daniel Quarrion Project Leader
- Oliva Steffe Project Leader
- Miles Hanton Project Leader
- Lily Haute Researcher
- Erin Franz Project Leader / Board of Research
Projects
As the name implies, the Research Department has hosted a variety of projects that ended up in various outcomes.
- Project Name
- Short Description if Necessary