Netherlands : PhD position Applied Research and Development Program Rolling Stock Life Cycle Logistics at NedTrain

The University of Twente is an entrepreneurial research university. It was founded in 1961 and offers education and research in areas ranging from public policy studies and applied physics to biomedical technology. The University of Twente is the Netherlands' only campus university.

The Faculty of Engineering Technology of the University of Twente has 375 employees and 1700 students within its four clusters: Civil Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Sustainable Energy. In the Design, Production and Management Department of the cluster of Mechanical Engineering a vacancy exists for:

PhD position Applied Research & Development Program 'Rolling Stock Life Cycle Logistics' at NedTrain

Background

In today’s open European market the manufactures of rolling stock are responsible for the design and construction, including the basic maintenance program. Usually the maintenance engineering is embedded in a ‘Reliability, Availability, Maintainability and Safety Program’ (RAMS Program).

Because significant technical differences between the national railway systems in Europe still exist, most manufacturers initially design general platforms for commuter, intercity and high speed trains. During the tendering and delivery process a specific model is engineered in several consecutive steps based on one of those platforms. The maintainability is a characteristic of that final and specific product. It will be expressed in terms of the mean distance between maintenance tasks, the mean time to carry out a preventive or corrective maintenance task and the average cost of maintenance. It should be emphasized that the contracted maintainability:

• is unique to the specific rolling stock which is ordered and might be different from other final designs based on the same platform;
   
• does not equal the future operational and financial performance of the fleet under operational circumstance, because the latter depends on the logistics system as a whole, including the design and functioning of the logistic and maintenance support organisation.
   

Objective

The main objective of the Supportability Analysis applied research and development project is to obtain qualitative and quantitative methods together with tools to:

• Define initial supportability specifications for the selection of rolling stock suppliers;
• Evaluate and rank the offers from the perspective of supportability;
• Contract supportability related items of rolling stock as well as process requirements for the supplier;
• Create, execute and manage a concurrent iterative process to design optimal logistics support related to the detail design of rolling stock and characteristics of NedTrain;
• Assess and improve logistics support during the operation life cycle of rolling stock.

Profile

We are looking for a highly motivated and enthusiastic researcher with a master degree in Mechanical Engineering, Industrial Engineering or a closely related field, with outstanding results. A strong background in business modeling and maintenance management is preferred. Your excellent communication skills will make the difference for the succes of this project. We seek for candidates with good team spirit, who like to work in an multi disciplinary oriented environment. Fluency in Dutch and English are requirements. An interview will be part of the selection procedure.

Offer

We offer scientific education on a multidisciplinary subject. The assignment is for 4 years,with a go/no-go assessment at the end of the first year. The candidates are expected to finish the project with a PhD thesis and disseminate the results through patents (if applicable), publications in peer-reviewed journals and presentations at international conferences. The candidate will spend at least 2 days per week at NedTrain in the city of Utrecht.

Your starting salary will be € 2042,-,gross per month in the first year, leading up to € 2612, - gross per month in the last year, according to the Collective Labour Agreement for Dutch Universities. In addition, we offer our employees a broad package of secondary benefits.

Information and application

For more information, please contact Dr. Sipke Hoekstra (+31 53 4891196, s.hoekstra@utwente.nl), Ir. Frans Kokkeler (+31 53 4893278, f.g.m.kokkeler@utwente.nl) or Prof. Fred van Houten (+31 53 4892549, f.j.a.m.vanhouten@utwente.nl). Applications for this PhD position must include a Curriculum Vitae, a summary of your MSc thesis and a list of persons for reference purposes. Please send your application letter to personeelszaken@ctw.utwente.nl, before March, 8^th 2010, with reference to vacancy number 10/020.

Further Information

Application Deadline : 8 March 2010

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