Procedure to fill a vacancy for an assistant professor, in the disciplinary/scientific area of Mechanical Engineering, sub-area of Industrial Management, Mechanical Technology and Materials

27 Mar 2024
Job Information

Organisation/Company

Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro

Department

Direção de Serviços de Recursos Humanos

Research Field

Other

Researcher Profile

Established Researcher (R3)

Country

Portugal

Application Deadline

13 May 2024 - 23:59 (Europe/Lisbon)

Type of Contract

Permanent

Job Status

Full-time

Hours Per Week

35

Offer Starting Date

28 Mar 2024

Is the job funded through the EU Research Framework Programme?

Not funded by an EU programme

Is the Job related to staff position within a Research Infrastructure?

No

Offer Description

Notice is hereby given that, at the University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro (UTAD), for a period of 30 working days, starting the day immediately following publication of this notice in Diário da República, an international vacancy is open for the recruitment of an Assistant Professor, in the form of a public employment contract, in the disciplinary/scientific area of Mechanical Engineering, sub-area of Industrial Management, Mechanical Technology and Materials, at UTAD, under the terms of articles 37 to 51, 61 and 62-A of the University Teaching Career Statute, republished by Decree-Law no. 205/2009, of August 31 (abbreviated to ECDU), and other applicable legislation, namely Regulation n.º 106/2019 - General Regulations for Competitions for the Recruitment of Full, Associate and Assistant Professors at UTAD, published in the Diário da República on January 25, 2019, hereinafter referred to as the Regulation.

In addition to the duties to be carried out at UTAD, the contracted Assistant Professor must also be able to carry out research activities, namely in research units or centers.

The person recruited will sign an employment contract in public functions for an indefinite period, in the category for which this vacancy was opened, with a trial period of five years.

This vacancy is open under the program contract to support the development of R&D activities, signed between FCT, IP and UTAD and in accordance with what is established in n.º 4 of Article 28 of the Scientific Employment Regulation (SER), published in the Diário da República by Regulation N.º 607-A/2017, of November 22nd , in its current wording.

In accordance with articles 37 to 51 of the ECDU and other applicable legislation, as well as article 8 of the Regulation, the following rules will be observed:

I - Authorization order from the Rector

This vacancy was opened by Order of the Rector, issued on 04/12/2023, following the conclusion of the above-mentioned program contract between FCT, IP and UTAD, confirmation of the existence of adequate budget funding and that the job now being advertised is foreseen and not occupied in the University's staff map and characterized therein, so that its holder must carry out the activities attributed to an Assistant Professor at UTAD, as defined, in particular, by article 4 and n.º 3 of article 5 of the ECDU.

II - Period of validity:     

The vacancy is valid only for filling the above-mentioned post and will end when it is filled.

 

III - Place of work

University of Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Quinta de Prados, 5000-801 Vila Real, Portugal.

IV - Requirements for administrative admission to the vacancy:

IV.1 - Under the terms of article 41-A of the ECDU, only those who hold a doctoral degree may be admitted to this vacancy.

IV.2 - The provisions of Chapter VI of the Regulations apply with regard to proof of and compliance with the requirements for admission and exclusion of candidates.

IV.3 - If the doctorate was awarded by a foreign educational institution, it must comply with the provisions of Decree-Law n.º 66/2018, of August 16th , and the formalities set out therein must be fulfilled by the deadline for applications.

IV.4 - Proficiency in spoken and written Portuguese. Applicants of foreign nationality, except those from Portuguese-speaking countries, must be proficient in spoken and written Portuguese at the common reference level B1 or higher. This requirement is officially recognized through a certificate or diploma of communicative competence in Portuguese from the Council of Europe's Common European Framework of Reference for Languages.

V - Absolute Merit Admission Requirements

V.1 - The provisions of Article 10 of the Regulations applies to the admission of candidates on absolute merit.

V.2 - The Jury will decide whether to approve or reject the candidate’s admission on absolute merit, by a justified roll-call vote in which abstentions are not allowed.

V.3 - With due regard for the quorum laid down in n.º 2 of Article 17 of the Regulations, a candidate shall be deemed to have been approved on absolute merit if he or she obtains the favorable vote of more than half of the voting members of the Jury.

V.4 - A vote against approval on absolute merit must be based on one or more of the following circumstances:

a) The candidate's scientific curriculum is manifestly outside the disciplinary/scientific area and sub-area of the vacancy; and/or

b) The candidate does not hold a doctorate in the field of Industrial Engineering and Management; and/or

c) The relevance, quality and timeliness of the candidate's curriculum vitae, and the most relevant and impactful academic contributions selected by the candidate, are clearly insufficient for the exercise of teaching functions at UTAD; and/or

d) The candidate has not published at least 3 scientific articles indexed in one of the SCOPUS/Clarivate Analytics Web of Science sources.

Exclusion or definitive rejection on absolute merit depends on a prior hearing to be held by the jury, which is also a necessary prerequisite for progressing to the next stage.

VI - Assessment parameters and ranking on relative merit, respective weighting and final evaluation system

VI.1 - The purpose of this open position is to assess the ability and performance of candidates in the various aspects which, under the terms of article 4 and n.º 3 of article 5 of the ECDU, form part of the duties to be performed if, as a result of this opening, they are hired.

VI.2 - Candidates will be ranked on the basis of the curricular assessment methodology, which focuses on the following elements:

A. Scientific performance (SP)

B. Pedagogical ability (PA)

C. Other activities relevant to UTAD's mission (OA), with emphasis on curricular aspects in the specific area for which the vacancy has been opened.

VI.3 - The parameters and respective items to be taken into account in the curricular assessment of candidates in each of the elements listed in VI.2 are as follows:

A. Scientific performance

A.1) Scientific and technological production and its relevance, measured by internationally accepted metrics.

1 - Patent registrations, including those in the provisional registration phase

2 - Scientific books (not resulting from the publication of conference proceedings)

3 - Chapters in scientific books (not resulting from the publication of conference proceedings)

4 - Publications in indexed journals (according to Web of Science or Scopus)

5 - Publications in journals indexed in other databases

6 - Publications of papers in indexed conference proceedings (according to the Web of Science or Scopus source)

7 - Publications in non-indexed journals or conference proceedings

8 - Products, prototypes and other software solutions

9 - Other publications or works

A.2) Coordination and participation in scientific or technological development projects and supervision of R&D fellows

1 - Coordination or participation in projects financed on a competitive basis by public funds through national or international agencies

2 - Coordination or participation in other funded projects

3 - Supervision or co-supervising fellows: post-doctoral, doctoral, research, science and technology management, research technician, scientific initiation and other R&D fellows.

A.3) Recognition by the scientific community and society in general

1 - Awards for scientific merit

2 - Coordination or participation in organizing or scientific committees of scientific events

3 - Giving lectures at scientific meetings, by invitation

4 - Member of juries for doctoral, master's and other academic examinations at higher education institutions (HEIs).

5 - Member of a research center.

B. Teaching ability

B.1) Teaching activities in higher education institutions

1 - Teaching curricular units

2 - Coordinating curricular units

B.2) Production of teaching material

Publication of textbooks with ISBN and other pedagogical texts (excluding slides or other material used for teaching)

1 - Pedagogical textbooks with ISBN, excluding publications in teaching series by universities or other HEIs

2 - Production of other relevant teaching material, including publications in teaching series from universities or other HEIs

3 - Other teaching material

B.3) Coordination and participation in teaching projects

1 - Creation or reinforcement of laboratory infrastructures or others of an experimental and/or computational nature to support teaching

2 - Creation of study plans, duly accredited and/or implemented

3 - Other coordination activities and participation in teaching projects

B.4) Supervision and guidance of students with completed degrees

1 - Supervising or co-supervising doctoral students

2 - Supervising or co-supervising master's students

3 - Supervising or co-supervising undergraduate students (internships, projects)

4 - Supervising or co-supervising final undergraduate work and/or pre-Bologna master's students and other student supervision

C. Other activities relevant to the mission of the higher education institution

C.1) Management in institutions/organizations

1 - Positions on the boards of higher education institutions and their units, and other scientific and technological entities

2 - Positions in sub-units of higher education institutions and coordination of study modules

3 - Temporary positions and tasks assigned by the competent management bodies in higher education or research institutions or other scientific, technological or business entities

C.2) Extension

1 - Transfer of patents to the business community

2 - Publications and scientific or technological dissemination activities (not included in teaching and research)

3 - Participation in activities involving the business environment and the public sector, including the provision of services, drafting of technical standards, consultancy and expert opinions

4 - Participation in university extension projects with a financial return for the institution

VI.4 - The classification of the curricular assessment (CA) is obtained by the following formula, rounded to the nearest tenth:

CA = SP + PA + OA

taking into account the table below:

 

Scientific performance (SP), is obtained from the expression:

P1 × (A1 × P11 + A2 × P12 + A3 × P13)

 

Pedagogical ability (PA), is obtained from the expression:

P2 × (B1 × P21 + B2 × P22 + B3 × P23 + B4 × P24)

 

Other relevant activities (OA) for the mission of the higher education institution, is obtained through the expression:

P3 × (C1 × P31 + C2 × P32)

 

 

TABLE 1

Weighting assigned to the elements and respective parameters of curricular evaluation

 

Elements	Weight	Parameter	Weight
A – Scientific Performance	P1 = 0,55	Scientific and technological production, measured by internationally accepted metrics (A1)	P11 = 0,50
Coordination and participation in scientific or technological development projects and supervision of R&D fellows (A2)	P12 = 0,30
Recognition by the scientific community and society in general (A3)	P13 = 0,20
B – Pedagogical ability	P2 = 0,30	Teaching activities in higher education institutions (B1)	P21 = 0,50
Production of teaching material (B2)	P22 = 0,10
Coordination and participation in pedagogical projects (B3)	P23 = 0,10
Accompanying and advising students with completed degrees (B4)	P24 = 0,30
C - Other activities relevant to the mission of the higher education institution	P3 = 0,15	Management in higher education or research institutions (C1)	P31 = 0,25
Extension (C2)	P32 = 0,75

 

VI.5 - Once the classification of the curricular assessment has been obtained, based on the provisions of point VI.4, the jury will proceed to rank these candidates following the procedure established in article 20 of the Regulations.

VII - Submission and Application Form

VII.1 - Candidates must access and register on the Careers@UTAD electronic platform, available at https://careers.utad.pt , in order to submit their application, selecting the vacancy they wish to apply for.

VII.2 - Applications must be submitted exclusively in digital format, in portable document format (pdf).

VII.3 - The following documents must be submitted with the application:

a) Curriculum vitae, dated and signed, containing the information needed to assess the application, organized in accordance with the order and designations of each element (Scientific Performance, Pedagogical Capacity and Other Relevant Activities) and the assessment parameters set out in point VI of the notice; The curriculum vitae must also explicitly include the ''Scopus Author ID'', which allows to identify the list of publications, the number of respective citations and the H-index according to the Scopus source to be identified;

b) A copy of the qualifications certificates;

c) A separate copy of the 3 articles or chapters that have been scientifically refereed and are relevant to the disciplinary/scientific area/sub-areas for which the vacancy is open, in order to verify compliance with the provisions on no.4 of Article 10 of the Regulations;

d) Other work that the candidate considers relevant for the jury's assessment.

VII.4 - If the application contains a classified document that reveals a commercial or industrial secret, or a secret relating to literary, artistic or scientific property, the candidate must expressly indicate this reservation, failing which the work in question will be freely accessible to any of the other candidates when they consult the file.

VII.5 - On the electronic platform, the candidate must:

a) Declare, on their honor, that they meet the requirements for admission to the vacancy set out in the notice and in the law, and that all the information and documentation included in the application is authentic and subject to effective proof, whenever requested;

b) Express their consent for communications and notifications within the scope of the tender procedure to take place by email, indicating their address.

VIII - Language

Application documents must be submitted in Portuguese or English.

IX - Composition of the Jury

Under the terms of articles 45 and 46 of the ECDU, in conjunction with article 14 of the Regulations and in accordance with the approval of the CRUP, the jury is composed of the following members:

President: Rector of the University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro

Members:

Prof. Doutor Américo Lopes de Azevedo, Associate Professor, Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto;

Prof. Doutora Maria Sameiro Faria Brandão Soares Carvalho, Associate Professor, School of Engineering, University of Minho;

Prof. Doutor José António de Vasconcelos Ferreira, Associate Professor at the University of Aveiro;

Prof. Doutora Paula Varandas Ferreira, Associate Professor at the School of Engineering of the University of Minho;

Prof. Doutor Pedro Sanches Amorim, Associate Professor at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto.

If the President of the Jury does not belong to the scientific area or field for which this vacancy is open, he must, before knowing the identity of the candidates and their curricula, define the criteria he will use if, eventually, he is called upon to exercise tie-breaking powers, and if he does not do so, the criterion to be used will be the date on which the respective doctoral degrees were taken, with preference being given to the candidate who took them the longest.

In compliance with section h) of Article 9 of the Constitution, the University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro, as an employer, actively promotes a policy of equal opportunities for men and women in access to employment and professional advancement, taking scrupulous care to avoid any form of discrimination, which is why terms such as "candidate", "recruited", "professor" are not used in this notice to refer to people's sex or gender.

Likewise, no candidate may be privileged, benefited, disadvantaged or deprived of any right or exempted from any duty on the grounds of ancestry, age, sexual orientation, gender, marital status, family situation, economic situation, education, social origin or condition, genetic heritage, reduced working capacity, disability, chronic illness, nationality, ethnic origin or race, territory of origin, language, religion, political or ideological convictions and trade union membership.

 

2024-03-07 — The Rector, Emídio Ferreira dos Santos Gomes

 

 

 

 

 

 

Requirements

Research Field

Other

Education Level

PhD or equivalent

Languages

PORTUGUESE

Level

Good

Additional Information
Work Location(s)

Number of offers available

1

Company/Institute

Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro

Country

European Union

State/Province

Vila Real

City

Vila Real

Postal Code

5000-801

Street

Quinta de Prados

Where to apply

Website

https://www.careers.utad.pt

Contact

State/Province

Vila Real

City

Vila Real

Website

https://www.utad.pt/

Street

Quinta de Prados

Postal Code

5000801

E-Mail

[email protected]

STATUS: EXPIRED