Job description
Background of the recruitment and description of the project
The Department of Marine Systems Engineering consists of three chairs: Ship and Marine Dynamics (Marine Hydrodynamics, and Marine Dynamics and Control), Structural Engineering of Ship and Marine Systems (Structural Systems, and Fatigue, Fracture, Welding Mechanics and Production Systems), and Marine Systems Design (Functional Systems Engineering, Ship Design and Maritime Intelligence Technology, and Ocean Energy Resources). Additionally, the department has a chair, Systems Planning, in an endowed course of Naval Architecture and Marine System Engineering Human Resource Development which was established at the urging of related industries.
The associate professor or assistant professor will belong to the chair of Structural Engineering of Ship and Marine Systems and will be in charge of teaching and research related to structural strength estimation, safety assessment including structural reliability and structural optimization and vibration of ships and offshore structures, and their structural components.
The role will also be to promote academic exchange with universities at home and abroad and collaborative research with domestic private companies.
Work content and job description
Specialties：Structural Mechanics of Ship and Offshore Structures, Estimation of Structural Strength, Structural Optimization, Vibration of Ship and Offshore Structures
Teaching Responsibilities：Undergraduate lectures (Structural Mechanics, Practice of Numerically Structural Analysis, Mechanics of Materials, Vibration Theory), Graduate lectures (Structural Mechanics of Ship and Offshore Structures, Theory of Numerically Structural Analysis), Core Education courses (Dynamics, Programing Seminar, and Introduction to Data Science) and so on.
Assigned department
Existing departments
Structural Engineering of Ship and Marine Systems, Department of Marine Systems Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Kyushu University
Job type
- Associate Professor
- Assistant Professor level
Research field
- Frontier Technology - Marine engineering
- Manufacturing Technology - Mechanics of materials and materials
- Manufacturing Technology - Design engineering
- Others - Others
- Structural Mechanics of Ship and Offshore Structures, Estimation of Structural Strength, Strcutural Optimization, Vibration of Ship and Offshore Structures
Wages
Associate Professor
Annual Salary : 7 million yen ~
The annual salary system, which was introduced on 1st of April 2020, will be applied. The annual salary is determined in accordance with the university's pay scale based on experience, etc. The above annual salary are general guidelines and may be less than the above annual salary in some cases.
Assistant Professor level
Annual Salary : 5 million yen ~
The annual salary system, which was introduced on 1st of April 2020, will be applied. The annual salary is determined in accordance with the university's pay scale based on experience, etc. The above annual salary are general guidelines and may be less than the above annual salary in some cases.
Working hours
Associate Professor
- Working hours :08:30-17:15
- Break time :12:00-13:00
- Holidays : Saturdays, Sundays, national holidays and the period from the 29th of December to the 3rd of January
- Overtime and other explanations : Based on the discretionary labor system for professional work based by consent, it is regarded that working hours are 7 hours and 45 minutes irrespective of how much time the employee actually spends on his/her work.
Assistant Professor level
- Working hours :08:30-17:15
- Break time :12:00-13:00
- Holidays : Saturdays, Sundays, national holidays and the period from the 29th of December to the 3rd of January
- Overtime and other explanations : Based on the discretionary labor system for professional work based by consent, it is regarded that working hours are 7 hours and 45 minutes irrespective of how much time the employee actually spends on his/her work.
Application requirements
Qualifications
Education and Degree Requirements
Ph.D. / Doctor
Description
- Doctoral or PhD degree.
- Have sufficient teaching ability (including instruction and lectures in English) and enthusiasm and ability to take charge of the administration of the undergraduate and graduate doctoral programs.
- Have particularly outstanding leading research achievements or equivalent research results and work experience in the above-mentioned specialized fields.
- The applicant should have the willingness and ability to actively engage in interdisciplinary research with other areas of specialization and the development of new research fields from a long-term perspective, in addition to the above-mentioned areas of specialization.
- Have the ability and enthusiasm to actively develop education and research activities from an international perspective and social cooperation with industry, government, etc.
Employment Type
- Associate Professor: Regular employee
- Assistant Professor level: Regular employee
Contract period
Associate Professor
Tenured - Non-tenure track
Probationary period present
Trial employment period（Three months）
Assistant Professor level
Nontenured - Non-tenure track
Full-time (5-year term（*）). Converted to full-time (no term of office) upon review and approval of education, research, etc,during the term of office.
(*) If the period of continuous employment at the University exceeds five years, until the total period of employment exceeds ten years.
Probationary period absent
Work location
819-0395 Fukuoka 744 Motooka, Nishi-ku, Fukuoka, 819-0395, Japan
Compensation
Various systems
- Pay increase system : available
- Bonus : available
- Retirement allowances : available
- Transportation expenses : available
- Retirement age : available
Insurance
- Employees' Health Insurance : available
- Employees' Pension Insurance : available
- Worker's accident insurance : available
- Employment insurance : available
Measures for preventing passive smoking at the workplace
No smoking is permitted on the university premises.
Number of hired
1 person(s)
Starting date : 2027/04/01
Application period
2026/09/01~2026/10/30 Deadline for receipt
Application method
Attached documents
Application Form : Online Submission, Mailing
(1) Curriculum vitae（Include a photograph and a statement of education, employment history, and qualifications. Include contact information and e-mail address.）
Achievements and Activities : Online Submission, Mailing
(2) Application Documents
Ⅰ Research achievements
(Classified into (1) Academic Papers (differentiated by refereeing), (2) Proceedings of International Conferences (differentiated by refereeing), (3) Books/Edited Works, (4) Review Papers/Academic Materials, etc., (5) Inventions, Devices, Patents, etc., and (6) Others (papers and works confirmed for publication, etc.)).
Ⅱ Educational accomplishments
（Including public lectures, in-house education, etc.）
Ⅲ Any other relevant information
（Memberships of academic societies and their officers, committee members, international conference committee members,committee member of national and local governments, foundations,etc.,organizer and chairperson of academic research meetings,awards received, etc.）
Ⅳ Acquisition of competitive research funds such as Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, joint research, and funded research (representative portion)
Other online application forms
(3) Summary of previous research (2,000 words or less)
(4) Future research plans (2,000 words or less)
(5) Motivation for application and aspirations for education and research (1,000 words or less)
(6) Reprints of Major Publications (up to five)
(7) Names and Contact Information of Two Referees
Upload the application documents electronically to the designated URL the application documents by the file-sharing system of Kyushu University：
Please contact the e-mail address below with the subject line "Faculty Application". We will send you the URL for the shared folder, so please upload your application documents. Please upload your documents in a single PDF file.
Other Mailing Documents
(3) Summary of previous research (2,000 words or less)
(4) Future research plans (2,000 words or less)
(5) Motivation for application and aspirations for education and research (1,000 words or less)
(6) Reprints of Major Publications (up to five)
(7) Names and Contact Information of Two Referees
Sending the application documents by mail：
Please send one printed copy of the above documents and a USB flash drive containing the PDF file of the documents in a sealed envelope with "Application for faculty positions" written in red ink, by registered mail to the faculty member indicated in the "Submission address/inquiry" below.
Return of application documents
We will dispose of all application documents responsibly.
Please note that the submitted documents and data will not be returned.Personal data contained in the submitted material will not be used for any purpose other than selection.
Application document submission method (physically mailed documents)
819-0395 Fukuoka 744 Motooka, Nishi-ku, Fukuoka, 819-0395, Japan
Department of Marine Systems Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Kyushu University Professor Daisuke Yanagihara
JREC-IN Portal web application
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E-mail Application
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yanagihara(at)nams.kyushu-u.ac.jp
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Recruiting Institution's Web application system
Not available
Selection / Notification of result
Selection
Initial document screening (1st round) followed by interviews (2nd round). The interviews may be conducted online.
Notification of result
You will receive an email from us informing you of the results.
Contact details
Kyushu University
Department of Marine Systems Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Kyushu University
Daisuke Yanagihara
0928023456
yanagihara(at)nams.kyushu-u.ac.jp
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Notes
- Candidates may be requested to come to the campus for an interview. The University does not cover travel costs or other expenses relating to interview attendance.
- "In line with the Basic Act for a Gender-Equal Society (Act No. 78 of 1999), Kyushu University is an equal opportunity employer.https://danjyo.kyushu-u.ac.jp/en/
- Kyushu University is an equal opportunity employer and follows the principle of the Act on Employment Promotion etc. of Persons with Disabilities (Act No. 123 of 1960, revised in 2013) and Act on the Elimination of Discrimination against Persons with Disabilities (Act No. 65 of 2013).
- The accompanying spouse employment system has been implemented at Kyushu University from July 2017.
- If you have been disciplined in the past for sexual violence, including sexual harassment, against students, please be sure to enter the nature of the disciplinary action and the specific reasons for it in your resume or other documents. False statements may result in cancellation of employment or disciplinary action.
- For more information on the Department of Marine Systems Engineering, please refer to the following URLhttps://www.nams.kyushu-u.ac.jp/en/
- Please review the latest faculty requirement posted on the above website before submitting the application documents.
