At the University of Bremen, in Department 4 (Production Engineering - Mechanical and Process Engineering) at the Bremen Institute for Mechanical Engineering (bime), subject to the availability of funding, a position as a Doctoral Researcher (f/m/d) in the project “Development of decoupling strategies to build resilient production systems” full-time, working 100% of the weekly work hours, (39.2 hours per week) within the Salary Group 13 TV-L is to be filled at the earliest possible date and for a fixed term position for three years.
The employment is fixed-term and governed by the Act of Academic Fixed-Term Contract, §2 (1) (Wissenschaftszeitvertragsgesetz – WissZeitVG).
Therefore, candidates may only be considered for appointment if they still have the respective qualification periods available in accordance with § 2 (1) WissZeitVG.
Part-time work is generally possible.
In that case, details should be arranged with Department 4. The university as an employer: With approximately 20,000 students and about 3,500 employees, the University of Bremen is a medium-sized university.
It ranks among Germany’s leading universities in terms of external funding and research.
Employed at the Faculty of Production Engineering at the University of Bremen in the group of Production Design (Prof. Dr.-Ing.
Kirsten Tracht) at the Bremen Institute for Mechanical Engineering (bime).
The overall goal of the joint project „Development of decoupling strategies to build resilient production systems”, which is funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research, is to increase resilience in manufacturing companies by enabling them to deal with decoupling proactively and with foresight.
To create resilient production systems and an agile and adaptable organisation, critical supply chains within the production system are identified in a data-driven manner and, based on this, strategies for dealing with decoupling are developed using simulation and stress testing.
The project „Development of decoupling strategies to build resilient production systems” aims to develop an innovative method for discrete-event simulation to analyse strategies for dealing with decoupling at the production planning and control level, validate them using specific industrial scenarios and derive best practices from them.
Your responsibilities will primarily include: • Carrying out research work that should lead to a dissertation, • Independent and co-operative processing of research tasks in production planning and control, particularly in relation to decoupling processes, • Presenting your results to industry representatives and specialist audiences, • Collaboration in teaching in the field of ‘Production Design’ (e.g. supervision of internships, project work and theses, lecture assistance).