Deputy CTO - NMIS (829733)

Salary: £69,488 - £73,709 per annum
FTE: 1
Term: Fixed to 06 April 2028*
Closing date: 28 July 2026

The University of Strathclyde has a long history of working with industry to deliver strong business growth from access to research and innovation expertise. The latest major initiative continuing to deliver on this track record is through the National Manufacturing Institute Scotland (NMIS).

As a magnet for innovation in advanced manufacturing, the National Manufacturing Institute Scotland (NMIS) group of specialist R&D centres, supports manufacturing, engineering and associated tech businesses of all sizes, to thrive domestically and internationally through accelerating productivity, embracing new digital technologies and achieving net-zero targets.

We turn smart ideas into reality and deliver ground-breaking research.

Coming from diverse backgrounds and disciplines, our passionate team works alongside industry, academia, and the public sector to solve problems, train the workforce of the future and generate the creative ideas that will transform manufacturing.

Ultimately, we are growing the economy, developing a vibrant and skilled talent pool and helping create prosperous, sustainable communities.

The Opportunity
As a member of the NMIS CTO group the Deputy CTO will support and lead as a deputy development and delivery of NMIS’s programmes ensuring that NMIS remains at the forefront on manufacturing innovation nationally and internationally while leading the Sector aligned strategic pursuits. They will oversee the coordination of a strategic industry sectors collaboratively with other NMIS leading centres, providing the vision, leadership and drive to ensure NMIS delivers transformational capabilities to Scottish Industry, working with the wider HVM Catapult network to deliver similar improvement across the UK. The NMIS Deputy CTO will deputise for the CTO to embed processes and promote a culture that will deliver a well-informed and bold research strategy.

This role is a fantastic opportunity for a strong sector leader to significantly accelerate digital manufacturing innovation and industrial application across a wide range of manufacturing sectors, many of which are currently failing to change at a pace that will allow them to remain globally competitive or even survive.

This high-profile role will require candidates who have the right blend of leadership, influencing power, strategic vision, technical understanding, people skills and business acumen to deliver programme commitments and achieve the impact expected from our government, academic and industrial stakeholders.

*This role is backfilling the Deputy CTO who is currently on secondment to 6 April 2028. Should their secondment end early or the postholder return to their substantive position, the backfill would cease, with appropriate notice given.

Informal enquiries about the post can be directed to Stuart Laidlaw, Director of Org. Resilience and Growth at stuart.laidlaw@strath.ac.uk