Lecturer in robotics technology for Absalon's engineering programs - re-advertisement

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Would you like to help build a new English-language diploma engineering education in robotics? Are you passionate about developing a new program in close collaboration with capable and engaged colleagues, students and local companies? Then you may be the one we are looking for to support our students on the diploma engineering programs and at the continuing and further education in Automation and Operations.

At Absalon you will have the opportunity to combine your experience from robotics, automation or machinery with teaching. At the same time you will leave your professional imprint on the curriculum, laboratories and collaboration with industry.

Absalon will establish in September 2027 a new English-language diploma engineering program in robotics. The program focuses on integration of robotics and automation solutions and an understanding of the whole production system where the solution must be integrated. Diploma engineering program in robotics is closely linked with the diploma engineering program in mechanical engineering as well as the continuing and further education at academic level in Automation and Operations.

In the engineering programs it is our ambition to educate the best engineers in Denmark. We tailor our education to the labor market by closely collaborating with the Danish automation, mechanical and process industry as well as companies and other actors in Biotekbyen Kalundborg and in the Campus Kalundborg collaboration. Read much more here. https://www.biotekbyen.dk/

Your profile

We are seeking an instructor who is passionate about educating within the border area between robotics, automation, production management and mechanical engineering. It is therefore important that you can recognize yourself in the following:

Skilled and motivating instructor,

who is engaged with the students. You contribute together with your colleagues to create an active, academic and social study environment. It is important that you can contribute positively to the close professional relationship we have between teachers and students.

Contribute to making the academic, practical and the collaboration work well.

We are more than a workplace, and you should, like us, be driven by a strong camaraderie and a shared professional interest. You will consult with your colleagues about your teaching, and together we find solutions to practical tasks.

You also easily engage in dialogue with companies, both regarding opportunities for continuing and further education and regarding collaboration with students on the diploma programs.

You want to join a working community and help establish a new education.

We are building and continuously developing our engineering programs, and a lot needs to be done for the first time. You will have a central role in describing and building the new education in robotics and automation. You will, among other things, help arrange and procure the right equipment for upcoming robotics and automation laboratories.

Your engineering professionalism comes into play

when you teach, advise and consult with colleagues within parts of the following areas

• Integration and programming of industrial robots, e.g. Universal robots, ABB, KUKA, FANUC
• Industry 4.0
• Siemens TIA-portal
• Industrial networks
• Vision systems and sensor technology
• Safety systems and cyber security
• CE marking and applicable standards for the field
• Integration of AI in robot and automation solutions
• PLC-, HMI- and SCADA solutions
• CAD and 3D printing

In addition we expect that you

• have a background as engineer, e.g. robotics/automation engineer, production engineer, electrical engineer, mechanical engineer or similar
• have relevant professional experience within the engineering profession
• can teach in English and preferably also in Danish
• are preferably evaluated as associate professor
• have insight into industry needs for engineering competencies within robotics and automation. Not a requirement, but advantageous.

Your duties

As a teacher on the diploma programs and in Automation and Operations you have a range of different tasks during a workweek.

Build an education.

You have an interest in playing a central role in establishing a new education in robotics and possibly have a coordinating role in describing the program, preparing a study plan, establishing student and company networks and procurement of equipment and laboratory setup. If you have experience with and interest in certain administrative tasks it would be an advantage.

Teach and supervise students in projects.

You shall primarily teach and supervise our students both theoretically and in laboratories and project-based within your subjects. You shall plan, implement and evaluate the teaching yourself. You shall also contribute to ongoing development of our teaching.

Teach in continuing education (EVU) and in basic education.

You shall teach students in full-time study as well as course participants with full-time work alongside their education in EVU. For EVU teaching there may also be tasks with outreach to companies and presentation of the educational offerings.

Professional collaboration as part of daily life.

You will become part of a professional community where you spar and collaborate with your colleagues. Together you ensure, for example, to design good teaching programs, develop teaching materials, and maybe there is an event attached to the center that needs to be arranged.

Teaching in the various programs will predominantly be at our Campus Kalundborg, but in EVU areas teaching may occur at Absalon’s campus in Roskilde. You should be prepared for some teaching to take place on weekends or evenings.

Your colleagues

You will be employed in the Centre for Engineering and Science, which runs the programs Bioanalyst, Radiographer, Diploma Engineer in Biotechnology, Diploma Engineer in Mechanical Engineering as well as continuing and further education Diploma in Biotechnology, Process Technology and Chemistry, Academy programs in Automation and Operation and Academy program in Innovation, Production and Production.

You will be part of a team with the educational manager, associate professors and lecturers. On our engineering programs in Kalundborg we are about 20 teaching staff. We are working to create the best engineering education in close collaboration with the biotechnology industry in Northwest Zealand, as well as our engaged students. We value high professionalism and solve tasks, as well as challenges in a community, where we all are aware of the importance of contributing to the community and to the center’s overall objectives.

We are located in a newly built campus building from 2021 and in the adjacent building Helix Lab. Absalon is also part of the Campus Kalundborg initiative, where we work closely with five other educational institutions, and from 2028 we will be part of a new joint Campus Kalundborg building.

There may be appointment as associate professor. Please indicate in your application what type of appointment you are seeking.

How to apply

Appointments are made according to the applicable collective agreement in the state sector.

• For those who are newly educated and appointed as adjunct, the expected starting salary is 41,232 DKK including pension. For those who are an experienced instructor and appointed as associate professor, the expected starting salary is 53,537 DKK including pension. There is an opportunity to negotiate a qualification supplement based on qualifications and experience.
• The position is full-time with a start date of January 1, 2027, preferably earlier
• If you have any questions about the position, you are welcome to contact Educational Leader Jesper Stensbo Knudsen, [email protected], 7248 3224
• Application and relevant documents are sent via our recruitment system here: https://phabsalon.dk/job-i-absalon/ledige-stillinger, or by clicking on 'Søg stillingen' on the right side of this page no later than November 15, 2026
• We expect to hold interviews subsequently, but no later than week 47 and 48.

We want the staff composition to reflect the surrounding society, and therefore we encourage all interested regardless of gender, cultural and ethnic background to apply for the position.

For the position it applies that you are appointed as adjunct or associate professor depending on your qualifications.

At Absalon the adjunct is a 4-year educational position. We support this through Absalon’s lecturer qualification program, which all newly appointed adjuncts participate in, and where everyone gets assigned a supervisor. To be employed as associate professor requires a positive associate professor evaluation within the position structure.

When employing associate professors who were evaluated as associate professors before the 2013 position structure, appointments are made according to the previously centrally fixed salary and employment terms. Depending on your qualifications, weighed against the specific content of the position, renewed associate professor evaluation under the current position structure (fast-track arrangement) may possibly be agreed. Read more here in chapter 5: https://www.retsinformation.dk/eli/lta/2020/673

You can read more about the framework for appointments as adjunct or associate professor in our position structure here: https://www.retsinformation.dk/eli/lta/2021/1458

About Absalon

Absalon University College is Region Zealand's largest educational institution, where we, with our 14 programs, educate people who with high professionalism and expertise create value in the society they are part of. Our programs are close to the individual student’s dreams and potential, close to the practice they will work in and to the people and communities they will make a noticeable difference for.

In a new large Zealand region it is crucial to have an eye for both the big lines, the local and the near. The people who graduate from Absalon lift other people and create opportunities and development where they live and work.

It is our ambition to create practice-oriented high-quality education and give the students the best conditions to develop into competent professionals. And we want to strengthen the possibilities for them to create a career that at all times matches their professional interests and ambitions - and the responsibility they take in our society.

We are 850 employees, we have 8,000 students in our basic programs and we educate 3,500 course participants each year.