Official title: Tuotantotalouden lehtori — Lecturer in Industrial Management
Location: Karamalmi campus, Espoo, Uusimaa, Finland | Employment information: Full-time, permanent lectureship; hybrid working
This full-time lectureship brings together subject teaching, student guidance and the development of learning connected with industrial management. The successful lecturer will work across operational-development topics and may draw on experience in supply chains, enterprise resource-planning systems and related applications to support course delivery. Supervision extends from professional projects undertaken by students in different year groups to engineering theses. The role requires clear spoken and written Finnish and English because both languages are used in teaching Finnish and international students. Its schedule is mainly daytime classroom work, complemented by some evening blended learning.
Responsibilities
- Deliver teaching and student supervision on operational-development subjects relevant to technology, industrial and ICT sectors.
- Explain in teaching how IT and digital solutions can raise operational efficiency.
- Teach supply-chain management together with its constituent areas.
- Cover procurement, logistics, production and materials control, ERP systems, SAP, warehousing and inventory economics.
- Teach business and production simulation, industrial and technology-company operations, and sustainable development in industrial companies.
- Address process automation, RPA, artificial intelligence and machine learning in industrial and service production, business analytics, and information-systems development.
- Provide teaching in business economics and management accounting.
- Teach engineering project management and project leadership.
- Guide professional student projects across year groups and supervise engineering theses.
- Teach Finnish and international students in Finnish and English, mainly through daytime classroom sessions with some evening blended learning.
Qualifications
- Hold at least a relevant higher university degree, such as an MSc in Technology, a Master's degree or a Master of Engineering (YAMK).
- Demonstrate excellent spoken and written Finnish and English for teaching in both stated languages.
- Bring at least five years of relevant work experience in an engineering field.
- Have experience developing supply-chain management or one of its components.
- Have developed and implemented ERP systems or related applications.
- Show a genuine interest in teaching, student supervision and their continuing development.
- Preferred: Experience in operational or business development in companies, including project-work experience, is advantageous.
- Preferred: Supervisory and/or management duties, plus international duties or work periods abroad, are advantageous.
- Preferred: Teaching experience, pedagogical training, and a relevant licentiate or doctoral degree are advantageous.
Skills and Competencies
- Use supply-chain management knowledge to teach its development and component areas.
- Apply understanding of ERP systems and related applications within Industrial Management teaching.
- Teach SAP in the context of enterprise resource-planning systems.
- Connect procurement and logistics knowledge with operational-development learning.
- Explain production and materials control through relevant course content.
- Teach warehouse technology and inventory economics as part of industrial-management subjects.
- Address process automation and RPA in operational and production contexts.
- Discuss artificial intelligence, machine learning, business analytics and information-systems development in industrial and service production.
- Use expertise in business economics, management accounting, engineering project leadership, teaching, guidance and thesis supervision.
Benefits and Employment Information
- The role offers an opportunity to support students' professional and academic development through teaching and supervision.
- Metropolia describes the work as varied, independent and meaningful within a good work community.
- Courses, projects and thesis supervision provide work with current industrial-management themes.
- The teaching environment includes Finnish and international students.
- The lecturer can contribute to the development of the Industrial Management degree programme.
- The vacancy states that part of the working time may be performed remotely.
- This Lecturer in Industrial Management post is a full-time, permanent lectureship with hybrid working; the vacancy does not publish a salary amount, and pay and employment terms follow the Sivistysala ry collective agreement for universities of applied sciences.