Job Alert - W3 Chair of Mobile Machinery and Commercial Vehicles

June 26, 2024 June 26, 2024

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The Technical University of Braunschweig is one of the leading technical universities in Germany and offers you an inspiring working environment with a wide range of research and teaching opportunities in excellently equipped institutions. The approx. 3,800 employees in research and teaching - including more than 400 international scientists - as well as in administration, technology and crafts together ensure that the university fulfills its research and educational mission for its approx. 16,000 students and approx. 100 trainees successfully fulfilled.

Our research focuses on mobility, metrology, engineering for health and the city of the future. Strong engineering and natural sciences form our core disciplines. These are closely networked with the economic and social sciences, educational and humanities.

Our university is located in the middle of one of the most research-intensive regions in Europe. With the more than 20 internationally renowned research institutions in our neighborhood, we work together just as successfully as with our national and international partner universities.

Faculty of Mechanical Engineering

We offer a

W3 Chair of Mobile Machinery and Commercial Vehicles

The occupation is scheduled for 01.10.2025.

Your tasks

The Institute for Mobile Machines and Commercial Vehicles is a core institute with basic and application-oriented contributions in the field of vehicle technology and mobile machines in the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and in the Lower Saxony Research Center for Vehicle Technology (NFF). The professorship is assigned to the research focus Mobility of the TU Braunschweig and also works interdisciplinary with the other research focuses. The institute is excellently networked with federal research institutions through joint projects and courses.

The focus of future research should be in the following areas:

Digital networking in mobile systems
Intelligent automation of process and driving functions
Sustainable systems of mobile machines and commercial vehicles
Efficient process technology in mobile machines
Innovative drive systems and chassis

The job holder is expected to carry out the executive management of a larger institute and research on the aforementioned priorities. The research topics are to be developed theoretically and demonstrated by means of experiments and on test vehicles, for which an extensively equipped workshop is available.

The teaching covers basic-oriented courses for all bachelor's and master's degree programs of the faculty as well as further offers for students of the degree programs in automotive engineering and mobile systems, mechanical engineering, aerospace engineering, industrial engineering; bio-, chemical and pharmaceutical engineering as well as sustainable engineering.

Our expectations

Proven competence in the field of mobile machines and commercial vehicles from a university, research institution or industry
Ability to engage in the implementation, coordination and management of interdisciplinary research projects and associations
Very good command of the English language and willingness to hold courses in English
Willingness to take over German-language teaching in bachelor's and master's degree programs
Willingness to participate in the self-government of the university
Willingness to participate in the internationalization of the university as well as the cooperation and assumption of management tasks in international research
Willingness to cooperate closely in research and teaching with working groups of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and the other faculties of the TU Braunschweig as well as in particular within the Lower Saxony Research Center for Vehicle Technology (NFF) and the research focus on Mobility.
Experience with and willingness to attract third-party funding and the management and implementation of basic and application-oriented third-party funding projects

The successful candidate (m/f/d) is expected to be committed to the central strategic topics of the university in all performance dimensions (research, teaching and study, transfer, governance and administration): internationalization, sustainability, digitization, equality and diversity, transfer to the knowledge exchange.

We encourage you to apply if you meet the expectations and at least three of the research priorities listed above. One focus of the research should be on sustainable solutions for agricultural machinery in innovative plant production systems.

International experience in teaching and research, very good command of the English language as well as the ability and willingness to offer an English-language course are expected.

Individual career paths as well as the effects of care and nursing times on the academic career and publication performance of the candidate (m/f/d) are taken into account by the appointment committee.

Recruitment requirements, § 25 NHG

Completed university studies
Proven pedagogical-didactic aptitude
Special ability to in-depth independent scientific work, which is usually proven by an above-average doctorate.
Additional scientific achievements, which have usually been provided as part of a junior professorship, a habilitation or through habilitation-appropriate services.

Notes

The Technical University of Braunschweig makes personnel decisions according to suitability, competence and professional performance.

Since we strive to increase the proportion of female professors, we particularly welcome the application of female scientists. Women are given priority if they have equivalent qualifications. Severely disabled people or persons equivalent to them have priority over legally non-privileged applicants (m/f/d) of equal suitability, competence and professional performance.

The Technical University of Braunschweig is certified as a family-friendly university. We represent the compatibility of work and family and offer a dual career service as well as support for new professionals. Our family office will advise you on all questions relating to family, childcare and family care. Our professor program offers exclusive status-related exchange and consulting formats and is particularly aimed at newly appointed people with its welcome offer.

The Central Personnel Development promotes the professional development of employees of all career levels through a diverse range of courses and measures.

The university is actively committed to equal opportunities and diversity and promotes diverse perspectives that contribute significantly to the success of the university in research, teaching, transfer and administration.

It is a permanent full-time position. On request, part-time employment can be made possible.

Applicants (m/f/d) who at the time of the intended appointment are 50. If you have already reached the age of 18 and are not already in a civil servant position, are generally hired as an employee.

We look forward to receiving your application!

Applicants (m/f/d) are asked to submit the following documents: