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Senior Lecturer - £59,966 - £67,468

Reader - £69,488 - £73,709

Professor - Competitive (per annum)

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 a Professor /Reader/Senior Lecturer (SL) in Engineering Management, with an envisaged start as soon as possible. In the UK, a SL 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.

Are you passionate about working on global challenge and societal transitions, including sustainability, healthcare, food systems, or manufacturing systems? And are you thriving on theory-driven and empirically-validated research excellence, learning and teaching with and for engineering leaders of the future? We’d love to hear from you with research interests especially in engineering project and programme management, large- or mega project management, digitalisation of production and service systems, smart, circular, and green supply chain management, technology and innovation management, and industrial- and systems engineering management. Come with your expertise and you will be given the space to develop and grow.

DMEM brings together expertise in creative and engineering design, manufacturing and engineering operations management. Our research centres and groups focus on through-life product and system development, with core research themes being creativity and innovation, materials exploration, sustainability and technology. We are proud of our substantial and well-established collaborations with academic and industrial partners throughout the world. 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 more than 28,000 students and approximately 3,000 staff from more than 80 countries. Strathclyde is ‘the place of useful learning’ and is recognised internationally for its close working relationships with businesses and its partnerships with government and industry.

DMEM has a strong international reputation for research and teaching, and is one of the premier departments in the UK. Our significant partnerships with industry, national and international academic partner institutions, and a variety of global research agencies, and governmental agencies ensure the industrial applicability of our courses and our research outputs, and enable us to provide our students with state-of-the-art teaching and learning facilities. DMEM have an attractive portfolio of courses in engineering design, manufacturing and engineering management Engineering management is at the core of the Department’s current educational offerings across 4 Undergraduate (UG) >10 Postgraduate Taught (PGT) and multiple Continuous Professional Development (CPD) programmes. This includes Engineering Project Management, Manufacturing Engineering with Management, Engineering Management for Process Excellence, Digital Manufacturing, Supply Chain & Sustainability Management, Systems Engineering Management, Mechatronics and Automation, Product Design Engineering, Product Design Innovation, Technology and Innovation Management, Systems Thinking, People, Organisation and Leadership, Strategic Technology Selection for Digital Transformation, Lean Six Sigma, or Advanced Project Management). Our programmes are accredited by professional institutions, including: The Institution of Engineering Designers (IED), the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), and the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE) and selected with APM (Association for Project Management) and CIPS (Chartered Institute of Procurement and Supply).

Initial interviews have been scheduled for late October or early November 2026, with the most likely dates being Thursday 22 October 2026 or Tuesday 27 October 2026.

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

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