Faculty of Engineering and Environment

City Campus, Newcastle

The Faculty of Engineering and Environment is passionate about the principles and applications of Science and Technology in all its forms and strives to be excellent in research, teaching and innovation.

Working within the Department of Mechanical and Construction Engineering, you will provide expertise in an area of Construction Project Management to further enhance research, teaching and entrepreneurial activities. This will include designing, developing and delivering high quality teaching activities, undertaking individual and joint research to produce quality academic outputs and inform teaching and participating in external activity to generate income and promote the subject.  

The department has particular strengths in Building Information Modelling, Construction Technology, Mechanical and Automotive Engineering, Advanced Materials & Manufacturing and Sustainable & Renewable Energy Systems. We are particularly looking for candidates with expertise in Construction Project Management; Digital Construction and Building Information Modelling; modern methods of construction; and construction informatics. 

You must hold a first degree and be qualified to Doctoral level in a relevant discipline and have subject expertise in mechanical engineering, architectural engineering or project management with specialist knowledge gained through research activity, professional practice or consultancy. Proven ability to deliver high quality research led teaching within an appropriate field and a publication profile are essential. Membership and chartered affiliation of a relevant professional body is desirable.

For informal enquiries about this vacancy, please contact Professor Laurent Dala: laurent.dala@northumbria.ac.uk

To apply for this vacancy please click 'Apply Now', and submit a Covering Letter and your CV, including research / education statements, and grants and publications list. Please highlight your highest quality research outputs (please indicate a rank from 1 to 5) up to a maximum of 5, since 1st January 2014.  In addition, candidates are asked to provide copies of the top 2 research outputs (Journal / book chapter / practice-based portfolio).Where possible candidates are asked to combine all of these documents into a single file.

Northumbria University takes pride in, and values, the quality and diversity of our staff. We welcome applications from all members of the community. The University holds an Athena SWAN Bronze award in recognition of our commitment to improving employment practices for the advancement of gender equality and is a member of the Euraxess network, which delivers information and support to professional researchers.

Please note this vacancy will close on 19/01/2020