Postdoctoral position on organisational behavior in predictive maintenance

The Position

The position contributes to research and education in the chair of Asset Management & Maintenance Engineering. In realising the university’s motivation to contribute to a sustainable society, asset management and maintenance engineering plays important roles as they link engineering research and education to the areas of life cycle management of products and capital assets. The postdoctoral position will strengthen the chair’s research profile by focussing on the organisation and application of predictive maintenance strategies by development of relevant theories, methodologies and tools. The tasks involve working on the intersection of asset management and maintenance engineering with a strong emphasis on research with industrial partners.

Job Description
The department is looking for a promising and passionate postdoctoral candidate.

As a postdoctoral researcher, you seek to support our research programme in Primavera and inside our research chair. Furthermore, you will contribute significantly to knowledge transfer in the broad field of maintenance engineering and life cycle management. Your main research focus will be on the multi-disciplinary field of organisational behavior in predictive maintenance.

The postdoctoral researcher will be partly involved in existing undergraduate and graduate courses as well as the development of new courses, and will aid in the supervision of doctoral, master, and bachelor students. These activities will mostly take place at the University of Twente, but on occasion also at other knowledge institutions or industrial partners.

Please submit your application, including your CV and a list of publications. The application deadline is April 15, 2024. Applications will be considered by the recruitment committee and preliminarily shortlisted candidates will subsequently be invited for informal conversations with the University, after which a formal shortlist of candidates will be invited for interview and campus visits.

For more information on this position please contact dr. A.J.J Braaksma (email: [email protected]).

The Faculty of Engineering Technology (ET) engages in education and research of Mechanical Engineering, Civil Engineering and Industrial Design Engineering. We enable society and industry to innovate and create value using efficient, solid and sustainable technology. We are part of a ‘people-first' university of technology, taking our place as an internationally leading center for smart production, processes and devices in five domains: Health Technology, Maintenance, Smart Regions, Smart Industry and Sustainable Resources. Our faculty is home to about 2,900 Bachelor's and Master's students, 550 employees and 150 PhD candidates. Our educational and research programmes are closely connected with UT research institutes Mesa+ Institute, TechMed Center and Digital Society Institute.