Lecturer / Senior Lecturer / Reader in Engineering Supply Chain Management (624156)

Salary: Lecturer £45,585 - £56,021, Senior Lecturer £57,696 - £64,914,  Reader £66,857 - £70,918

FTE: 2 X1.0

Term: Open-ended

Closing Date: 2 August 2024

The Department of Design, Manufacturing and Engineering Management (DMEM) is an internationally leading department, Delivering Total Engineering for responsible and sustainable futures. We seek to appoint two positions as Lecturer, Senior Lecturer or Reader in Supply Chain Engineering Management. These posts are part of a wider talent and thought leader recruitment strategy. In the UK, a Lecturer is tenured and at Assistant Professor level, a Senior Lecturer is tenured and at Associate Professorship level, and a Reader position is tenured and at next level following an Associate Professorship, equivalent to a promoted Professorship as it is, for example, termed in Sweden.
We are part of the Faculty of Engineering in the University of Strathclyde, our vision is bold and ground breaking, placing us amongst the world’s leading international technological universities. The University is situated in the heart of Glasgow, with an international community including 22,000 students and more than 3,000 staff from 100 countries. Strathclyde is ‘the place of useful learning’ and is recognised internationally for its close working relationships with businesses and its partnerships with industry, government and industry.

We are proud of our well-established collaborations with academic and industrial partners. With more than 150 staff including the technical specialist centre, more than 100 Postgraduate Research (PGR) students both PhD and EngD, and more than 650 students from over 30 nations, we are a vibrant, international community.
Are you passionate about working on global challenge and societal transitions, including sustainability, healthcare, food systems, or manufacturing systems?
The position is aimed at research leaders who have a technical background, e.g. in operations and production engineering or related disciplines bridging to business and social sciences. Engineering Management is a core area and one of the three main pillars that DMEM is founded on and critical to it being a unique Department in the UK with a rising number of students registering for associated programmes.

You will thrive on theory-driven and empirically-validated research excellence, learning and teaching with and for engineering leaders of the future. In addition to research and teaching, there are also opportunities for career progression through industrial engagement / knowledge exchange tracks.
Operations and production management or engineering supply chain management expertise plays a vital role across the Department’s key activities of research, teaching and knowledge exchange.

You must have research experience and interests consistent with the strategic direction of the Department, Faculty and University and you will have experience of research leadership, including support of senior researchers in a University or industrial environment and management of research teams/projects/programmes. You will have extensive experience of delivering high quality teaching to undergraduate and postgraduate students including experience of developing and managing large teaching programmes and you will have experience of PhD/EngD research project supervision in Higher Education.

You will have an outstanding/sustained track record of published research in high quality publications demonstrating standards of excellence, with an international reputation. You will have an outstanding/substantial track record of securing research funding through relevant successful collaborative research grant applications and you will have an established national/international reputation as an expert and leader within Supply Chain Engineering Management. You will be an excellent educator and mentor and will show leadership in identifying key research questions and attracting funding support. You will have excellent interpersonal and communication skills, strong people skills and an ability to operate as part of a team.

Informal enquiries about the post can be directed to Professor Anja Maier, Head of Department (anja.maier@strath.ac.uk).