Assistant/Associate Professor - Operations Management (Open Rank)

Overview
Georgia Tech prides itself on its technological resources, collaborations, high-quality student body, and its commitment to building an outstanding and diverse community of learning, discovery, and creation. We strongly encourage applicants whose values align with our institutional values, as outlined in our Strategic Plan. These values include academic excellence, diversity of thought and experience, inquiry and innovation, collaboration and community, and ethical behavior and stewardship. Georgia Tech has policies to promote a healthy work-life balance and is aware that attracting faculty may require meeting the needs of two careers.

About Georgia Tech

Georgia Tech is a top-ranked public research university situated in the heart of Atlanta, a diverse and vibrant city with numerous economic and cultural strengths. The Institute serves more than 45,000 students through top-ranked undergraduate, graduate, and executive programs in engineering, computing, science, business, design, and liberal arts. Georgia Tech's faculty attracted more than $1.4 billion in research awards this past year in fields ranging from biomedical technology to artificial intelligence, energy, sustainability, semiconductors, neuroscience, and national security. Georgia Tech ranks among the nation's top 20 universities for research and development spending and No. 1 among institutions without a medical school.

Georgia Tech's Mission and Values

Georgia Tech's mission is to develop leaders who advance technology and improve the human condition. The Institute has nine key values that are foundational to everything we do:

1. Students are our top priority.
2. We strive for excellence.
3. We thrive on diversity.
4. We celebrate collaboration.
5. We champion innovation.
6. We safeguard freedom of inquiry and expression.
7. We nurture the wellbeing of our community.
8. We act ethically.
9. We are responsible stewards.

Over the next decade, Georgia Tech will become an example of inclusive innovation, a leading technological research university of unmatched scale, relentlessly committed to serving the public good; breaking new ground in addressing the biggest local, national, and global challenges and opportunities of our time; making technology broadly accessible; and developing exceptional, principled leaders from all backgrounds ready to produce novel ideas and create solutions with real human impact.

About the Scheller College of Business at the Georgia Institute of Technology
Scheller College's undergraduate and MBA programs are ranked top five in both management information systems as well as business analytics specialties by US News and World Report (2023 - 2024). The College's Full-time MBA Program is ranked No. 4 and No. 9 among public universities by Bloomberg BusinessWeek (2022 - 2023) and U.S. News & World Report (2023 - 2024) respectively. Georgia Tech is one of the nation's leading research universities and consistently ranks among the top public universities in the country. Atlanta is the 8th largest metropolitan area in the U.S. and serves as a cultural and economic hub for the region.

Atlanta, GA

The Operations Management (OM) Area consists of a collegial and distinct group of faculty dedicated to doing high-impact research and educating the next generation of researchers and managers. Areas in which we conduct pioneering research include supply chain operations, data-driven service operations, innovation and technology management, and sustainable operations. Beyond publishing and holding key editorial positions in leading operations management journals, our faculty cares deeply about translating their research to practice. As a result, OM Area faculty regularly interact and collaborate with companies and startups. As a group, we strongly endorse various research methods to address different managerial challenges in operations management. The OM Area also has a robust PhD program in Operations Management. For additional information about our group, please visit https://www.scheller.gatech.edu/academics-research/operations-management/index.html

Faculty candidates should possess demonstrated potential for excellent scholarly research and ability to teach at undergraduate and/or graduate level. Salary and teaching load of three courses per year are competitive with leading research universities. Responsibilities for this position include:

• Excellence in classroom instruction in subjects related to Operations Management at the undergraduate and graduate levels.
• Dedication to participation and leadership in professional activities, such as presenting at professional conferences, peer-review, and editorial positions in relevant journals.
• Commitment to service and student-engagement at the Institute level and beyond.
  

Candidates should have completed or be sufficiently advanced in their doctoral work in Operations Management or an associated area by July 1, 2025.

To apply, please visit: https://bit.ly/3CJQifn to submit the following documents.

1. A cover letter.
2. Vita including education, research interests/publications, work experience, and other relevant information.
3. One to three representative research papers.
4. A research statement and a teaching statement. Each should be no more than three pages.
5. Applicants are also requested to arrange for three confidential recommendation letters to be submitted at the following link: https://www.scheller.gatech.edu/om-fac-recommend

A number of faculty members from the group will be at the INFORMS Annual Meeting (2024) and meet with interested and qualified candidates. Candidates attending the conference are strongly encouraged to submit their applications with information about their presentations no later than October 15, 2024. The committee will continue reviewing applications until the position is filled.

For questions regarding the application process, please contact: operations@scheller.gatech.edu

The University System of Georgia is comprised of our 26 institutions of higher education and learning as well as the System Office. Our USG Statement of Core Values are Integrity, Excellence, Accountability, and Respect. These values serve as the foundation for all that we do as an organization, and each USG community member is responsible for demonstrating and upholding these standards. More details on the USG Statement of Core Values and Code of Conduct are available in USG Board Policy 8.2.18.1.2 and can be found on-line at https://www.usg.edu/policymanual/section8/C224/#p8.2.18_personnel_conduct.

Additionally, USG supports Freedom of Expression as stated in Board Policy 6.5 Freedom of Expression and Academic Freedom found on-line at https://www.usg.edu/policymanual/section6/C2653.

The Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. The University is committed to maintaining a fair and respectful environment for all. To that end, and in accordance with federal and state law, Board of Regents policy, and University policy, Georgia Tech provides equal opportunity to all faculty, staff, students, and all other members of the Georgia Tech community, including applicants for admission and/or employment, contractors, volunteers, and participants in institutional programs, activities, or services. Georgia Tech complies with all applicable laws and regulations governing equal opportunity in the workplace and in educational activities.

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More information on these policies can be found here: https://www.usg.edu/policymanual/section6/c2714 Board of Regents Policy Manual | University System of Georgia (usg.edu).

The candidate of choice will be required to pass a pre-employment background screening. http://policylibrary.gatech.edu/employment/pre-employment-screening.