Research fellow in Systems Engineering and Innovation
Deadline: 12.12.2020
University of South-Eastern Norway
University of South-Eastern Norway has about 18 000 students and about 1500 employees. The university is organized in four faculties, with instruction and R&D activities on eight campuses. The main profile of the university is to provide socially relevant education, geared towards specific professions, and adapted to the requirements of the workplace, as well as to produce applied research and development.
The Faculty of Technology, Natural Sciences and Maritime Sciences/Department of Maritime Operations have a vacancy for a position as Research fellow in Systems Engineering and Innovation
About the position
The Faculty of Technology, Natural Sciences, and Maritime Sciences has a vacancy for a position as Research Fellow in Systems Engineering from 01.01.2021.
The position is attached to the Department of Science and Industry Systems and reports to the Head of Department. The place of employment is Kongsberg.
Our Systems Engineering research program is positioned towards the industry needs to cope with disruptive technologies and innovation. We collaborate with a number of national and international universities. Systems Engineering, systems architecting, digitalization, sustainability and human-centered design are key areas of focus for our research. We strive to help our industry to create systems that are there for a purpose, and that create values for the company as well as for people, our society, and the environment. Our staff is internationally recognized, and nationally merited. We received the Quality in Higher Education Award in 2019 by the Norwegian Ministry of Education for our close collaboration with industry.
About the PhD-project
The position is connected to an industry-driven R&D project that includes the following high-tech companies:
Semcon, Ulstein Gruppen, Kongsberg Maritime, Kongsberg Defence and Aerospace, Indra Navia, Kongsberg Innovasjon, Statens Kartverk i Norge og Technip FMC.
And universities:
University of South-Eastern Norway (USN), Arkitekt- or Design Høgskolen i Oslo (AHO), ETH Zürich, Chalmers Tekniska Högskola.
The title of this research project is: “Harvesting value from Big data and Digitalization through a Human Systems-Engineering Innovation Framework”, H-SEIF.
The Norwegian high-tech industries face rapidly changing market needs. The customers demand new and integrated systems that are attractive to use. The partner companies, supplying complex systems in challenging markets, must increase the effectiveness of their engineering and innovation processes. These high-tech industries search for methodologies that increase their value proposition, cope with complexity, and at the same time reduce development risk. Large-scale complex systems are hard for people to understand and visualize the behaviours, especially before they are made. Such systems, though, have abundant related data from multiple sources, both operational (in-company) and contextual (public). In the project we will create a collaborative framework enhancing effective systems development, specifically directed towards making data-supported early decisions.
The PhD position will have a central position within the project together with two researchers/Post-docs, and collaborate with professors and master’s students.
The research fellow will focus on one of the project’s main objectives:
Create and validate a process that ensures that companies can effectively utilize big data in development processes.
The PhD position will also contribute to the overall objective of the project.
Appointment is for a period of three years.
Qualifications
Applicants to the PhD position must have a Master’s degree or equivalent higher education qualifications in Systems Engineering, Systems Architecting, Knowledge Management, Controls Theory, Innovation, Machine Learning, Product Design, Industrial Economy, relevant engineering- or computer science dicipline or equivalent. The degree must be accomplished before application deadline, and with grade B or higher.
Admission to one of the relevant doctoral programmes at USN[1] is a condition for appointment as a research fellow.
The research fellow will work in a professional network of academics and industry experts. We search for a candidate motivated to share his or her knowledge and interact with industry. The candidate must have the ability to work independently and at the same time have the motivation to share knowledge and take part in team work.
Personal suitability for the post will be emphasised.
We are looking for a person with several of the following skills:
Systems Engineering, Systems Architecting, Software Architecting, Multidisciplinary engineering, Engineering Manager, Project Manager, Conceptual modelling, Data scientist, Software engineer, Industrial engineering, Civil engineering, or other relevant engineering, management or data scientist discipline.
Systems perspective
Data management interest
Relevant work experience.
Experience and/or ability and interest to operate in academia and industry
Industrial experience will be valued as positive. This could be a position for an expericned industrial practitioner
Open for travel to all partners within Norway.
Good communication skills.
Practical
Able to conceptualise
Collaboration skills
Project manager skills
Self-driven
very good command of English and a Scandinavian language.
[1] (Maritime Operations, Applied Micro- and Nano Systems, or process, energy and automation technology, or alternative PhD program at USN.
We offer
A professionally stimulating working environment.
Colleagues with academic and industrial experience
Good opportunities to develop your career and your academic skills
A good social environment
A growing academic organization with strong ties to industry
Attractive welfare benefits in the Norwegian Public Service (State Pension Plan)
Opportunity for having fun and learn within working hours
Salary
PhD Research Fellow (code 1017): NOK kr 482 200 a year. Further promotion will be based on time served in the position.
A statutory contribution to the state pension plan will be deducted from the employee’s salary.
Other information
The Academic Appointments Board is responsible for appointments to academic positions at University College of Southeast Norway. An expert assessment of applicants will be carried out. Short-listed candidates will be called in for interviews and must be prepared to present and discuss their projects.
The person appointed must comply with the laws, regulations and agreements that apply at any given time to the post.
According to its human resources policy, the University of South-Eastern Norway targets a balanced gender composition and aims to recruit persons with a background as an immigrant.
The University contributes to the Inkluderingsdugnaden (a voluntary scheme to promote inclusion), and it is our aim that our employees, to the fullest extent possible, shall reflect the diversity of the general population. We therefore also encourage qualified applicants with disabilities to apply for the post. The University will facilitate the workplace for employees with disabilities.
Pursuant to section 25, 2nd paragraph of the Freedom of Information Act, information on the applicant may be disclosed even if the applicant has requested not be included on the list of applicants. Applicants will be notified if such requests are not allowed.
Contact information
For more information about the position, please contact:
The University of South-Eastern Norway makes use of online application management. Applicants to the post must register their application and CV with enclosures online via the Jobbnorge recruitment portal by clicking on the link on the right-hand side – “Søk stillingen” (Apply for the post).
The following documents shall be attached to the online application:
Certified diplomas and certificates from university college/university
Master’s thesis
Any scientific publications and a list of these
Three references (contact information)
Please note that all documents must be in a Scandinavian language or in English. Any translations must be certified.
Each applicant is responsible for ensuring that the required documentation has been uploaded with the application.
