Salary range: Up to £42.5k

FTE: 1 (35 hours per week)

Term: Fixed (35 months)

Closing date: 27/05/2025

The Department of Design, Manufacture and Engineering Management in partnership with anOrdain Limited (https://anordain.com/) are seeking to appoint a KTP Associate to manage the knowledge transfer and setup of a new advanced manufacturing department at anOrdain. The aim of this department is to manufacture highly complex watch hands using a modified CNC machine. The post will be based at anOrdain’s premises in Glasgow with visits to the University campus.

anOrdain are a Glasgow based watch designer and manufacturer. Their watch sales are reliant on their unique design. The market is driven by aesthetics, as well as the craft/complexity of designs, and anOrdain's ability to provide customers with information on how their watch is made.

The position offers the KTP Associate the following benefits:

• £2,000 per year to spend on personal training
• opportunity of a permanent position with the company; 70% of host companies make a permanent job offer to their Associate at the end of the project
• Take on a role that bridges academia and business
• You will ‘own’ your own project, linked to both a university and a business whose experienced teams will provide you with full support. Applying academic knowledge to a real world challenge, this is a chance to deliver impact and shape your career
• Gain a further professional qualification
• A KTP could be the perfect launchpad, helping enhance your career by managing a challenging project central to a business’s strategic development and long term growth.
• A fulfilling employment opportunity where you can apply your knowledge to turn a key strategic innovation idea into reality
• An opportunity to tailor-make your role, as each KTP Associate position is unique
• The chance to implement strategic development within an innovative company
• KTP Associates spend around 10% of their time in training and personal development. At the start of the KTP you get a training budget to manage – so you decide which courses would benefit you.

The project is part of the Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) programme that aims to help businesses to innovate and grow by working with UK universities. Successful Knowledge Transfer Partnership projects are funded by UK Research and Innovation through Innovate UK and are part of the government’s Industrial Strategy. To find out how KTP works and the vital role you will play if you successfully secure a KTP Associate position please visit: www.ktpws.org.uk

For informal enquiries, please contact Professor Xichun Luo at xichun.luo@strath.ac.uk.

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