Principal Engineer (Composites Team Lead) (790437)

Contract type: Open-ended 

The University of Strathclyde has a long history of working with industry to deliver strong business growth from access to research and innovation expertise. The latest major initiative continuing to deliver on this track record is through the National Manufacturing Institute Scotland (NMIS).

As a magnet for innovation in advanced manufacturing, the National Manufacturing Institute Scotland (NMIS) group of specialist R&D centres, supports manufacturing, engineering and associated tech businesses of all sizes, to thrive domestically and internationally through accelerating productivity, embracing new digital technologies and achieving net-zero targets.

We turn smart ideas into reality and deliver ground-breaking research.

Coming from diverse backgrounds and disciplines, our passionate team works alongside industry, academia, and the public sector to solve problems, train the workforce of the future and generate the creative ideas that will transform manufacturing.

Ultimately, we are growing the economy, developing a vibrant and skilled talent pool and helping create prosperous, sustainable communities.

The Opportunity

As a member of the NMIS group the Team Lead (Composites) will lead and manage the composites theme to drive industry impact through commercial and collaborative R&D activity. You will contribute to the development and delivery of NMIS’s programmes ensuring that NMIS remains at the forefront on manufacturing innovation nationally and internationally through leading the composites activity and shaping the strategic outlook. As an Investigator, lead the development and submission of proposals to appropriate external bodies for knowledge exchange funding of significant value and technically manage grants awarded. You will support the NMIS engineering knowledge exchange teams and line manage the NMIS composites team delivering the NMIS composites capability providing technical leadership and guidance to colleagues. You will play a key role in the strategic development of NMIS, working with the CTO to develop impact driven strategies while ensuring current and future capability is established for composites. You will lead and develop internal and external networks of researchers and leading thinkers in the field to foster knowledge exchange collaborations, to identify and deliver common research/knowledge exchange objectives and to generate income. You will also lead the development of knowledge exchange activities by establishing knowledge exchange links with industry and influencing public policy and the professions. You will contribute to NMIS, Institute, Faculty and/or University senior administrative and management functions by convening or participating in relevant committees.

This role is a fantastic opportunity for a composites expert to lead acceleration of digital manufacturing innovation and industrial application across a wide range of manufacturing technologies, many of which are currently failing to change at a pace that will allow them to remain globally competitive, or even survive.

This role will require candidates who have the right blend of technical understanding, business acumen, strategic vision, leadership and people skills to deliver capability, programme commitments and achieve the impact expected by our government, academic and industrial stakeholders.

Informal enquiries about the post can be directed to Stephen Fitzpatrick, Director of Digital Factory (s.fitzpatrick@strath.ac.uk).

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