Assistant Research Professor

We need to output only HTML fragment, no html/body tags, no markdown fences. Use

for section headings: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Include sections only if posting has real specific content. We need to extract content. Job description includes: - About the role: description of position, initial two-year fixed-length academic-year appointment, start Jan 1 2027, role in AS2 project, focus on accelerated mineral carbonation to soil stabilization, contribute to teaching, etc. Also mention teaching two courses per year, etc. Also mention location, department info, etc. Could be "About the role" includes overview. - Responsibilities: lead research activities, supervise/coordinate graduate/undergrad students, develop/evaluate/document lab- and field-scale testing, analyze/interpret data, prepare scholarly/technical products, field testing at secured sites, teach two courses per year, develop complementary research, pursue external funding, mentor students. - Requirements: Ph.D. in Civil Engineering or closely related field by start date. Demonstrated research experience relevant to geotechnical engineering, soil stabilization, geomaterials, mineral carbonation, cementitious materials, or related chemical and physical processes. Ability to conduct/communicate high-quality research (peer-reviewed publications, technical reports, conference presentations). Ability to work collaboratively. Effective written and oral communication skills. Ability to obtain/maintain authorization to access federal government, military, other secured sites. - Preferred qualifications: Bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering or related. Research experience involving ground improvement, chemical stabilization, mineral carbonation, soil-binder interactions, geomaterials, lab/field testing of stabilized soils. Experience developing/conducting lab-scale, pilot-scale, field-scale research. Experience supervising/mentoring undergrad/grad researchers. Teaching experience or demonstrated potential to teach undergrad/grad courses in geotechnical engineering. Experience preparing research proposals or contributing to externally funded research. Record of peer-reviewed scholarly publication. - Skills: maybe combine some of the above? Could list skills: research, teaching, communication, collaboration, ability to obtain security clearance, etc. But we should not duplicate. Could create a Skills section summarizing abilities: research, teaching, communication, collaboration, technical writing, data analysis, etc. However we must not invent details; we can extract from text. The posting mentions "Ability to work collaboratively", "Effective written and oral communication skills", "Ability to obtain and maintain authorization", "Ability to conduct and communicate high-quality research". Those could be skills. - Benefits: The posting mentions "The University of Maine offers a wide range of benefits for employees including, but not limited to, tuition benefits (employee and dependent), comprehensive insurance coverage including medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and short and long term disability as well as retirement plan options." Also mentions quality of life, cultural activities, etc. So we have benefits content. - Pay: "Typical hiring salary for this position is $80,000 - $90,000 commensurate with qualifications and experience." That's specific pay range. So we can include Pay section with that sentence. - Schedule: Not explicitly mentioned besides "initial two-year, fixed-length, academic-year appointment". Could be schedule: academic-year appointment (likely 9 months). But we need real specific content. The posting says "initial two-year, fixed-length, academic-year appointment". That is schedule info. So we can include Schedule section with that. We must not include sections with filler like "commensurate with experience" etc. But Pay section includes the range; that's okay. Schedule section includes "initial two-year, fixed-length, academic-year appointment". That's specific. We must not repeat job title as heading. Not include Job ID etc. We must remove boilerplate like EEO, Clery Act, application instructions, etc. Also remove navigation, legal, etc. So we need to strip out the "Other Information" about application, references, deadlines, contact, background screening, equal opportunity, Clery Act, etc. Also remove "About The University" paragraph? That is about UMaine; could be considered part of About the role? Might be considered generic but it's specific to UMaine. The instruction: "Prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones." We could include a section "About the University" but not in allowed headings list. Allowed headings are only those listed: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. So we must fit content into those headings. The "About The University" paragraph could go under About the role or maybe Benefits? But it's about the institution, not role. Could be placed under About the role as context. We'll include relevant details about UMaine in About the role. We must preserve all substantive information; do not invent or summarize away detail. So we need to keep all details from the posting that are relevant to those sections. However we must not include boilerplate like EEO, application instructions, etc. So we need to filter. Let's parse the posting and extract substantive info for each allowed heading. First, identify sections: - About the role: The initial paragraph: "Job Description The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CIE) at the University of Maine (UMaine) invites applications for a non-tenure-track Assistant Research Professor position. This is a unique research and teaching position with an initial two-year, fixed-length, academic-year appointment, anticipated to start January 1, 2027. The successful candidate will play a central role in the Accelerated Soil Stabilization (AS2) project, with a primary focus on the application of accelerated mineral carbonation to soil stabilization, while also contributing to undergraduate and graduate instruction in geotechnical engineering." Also later: "The successful candidate will join a dynamic engineering program dedicated to high-quality teaching, scholarship, and service - where faculty support work-life integration." plus department info about MCEC, etc. Also "About The University" paragraph. We'll incorporate relevant details about department, university, resources, etc. But we must avoid fluff? The instruction: "Prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones." So we can include a decent About the role section with all relevant details about the position, department, university, resources. - Responsibilities: list of duties: lead research activities associated with AS2 project, supervise/coordinate research activities of graduate and undergraduate students; develop, evaluate, and document laboratory- and field-scale testing, demonstration, and implementation methodologies; analyze and interpret research data; prepare scholarly and technical products (peer-reviewed journal articles, technical reports, conference presentations, presentation materials for project sponsors and other stakeholders); position may include field testing and demonstrations at federal, military, or other secured facilities requiring site-specific background screening, credentialing, and access authorization; teach two courses per academic year (normally one undergraduate and one graduate course in CIE); teaching assignments based on departmental needs and candidate expertise, emphasis on geotechnical engineering; encouraged to develop complementary research initiatives, pursue external funding, mentor graduate and undergraduate students. - Requirements: Ph.D. in Civil Engineering or closely related field by start date; demonstrated research experience relevant to geotechnical engineering, soil stabilization, geomaterials, mineral carbonation, cementitious materials, or related chemical and physical processes; evidence of ability to conduct and communicate high-quality research (peer-reviewed publications, technical reports, conference presentations); ability to work collaboratively with faculty, students, project sponsors, external partners; effective written and oral communication skills; ability to obtain and maintain authorization to access federal government, military, and other secured research and demonstration sites. - Qualifications: The posting has "Qualifications Required:" and "Preferred". So we can split into Requirements (maybe required) and Qualifications (preferred). But the allowed headings include Requirements and Qualifications separately. So we can put required under Requirements, preferred under Qualifications. However we already used Requirements for required qualifications. Might be overlapping. But we can treat Requirements as mandatory, Qualifications as preferred. That matches typical usage. Thus: Requirements (mandatory): - Ph.D. in Civil Engineering or closely related field by position start date. - Demonstrated research experience relevant to geotechnical engineering, soil stabilization, geomaterials, mineral carbonation, cementitious materials, or related chemical and physical processes. - Evidence of ability to conduct and communicate high-quality research, including through peer-reviewed publications, technical reports, or conference presentations. - Ability to work collaboratively with faculty, students, project sponsors, and external partners. - Effective written and oral communication skills. - Ability to obtain and maintain authorization to access federal government, military, and other secured research and demonstration sites, as required for performance of assigned duties. Qualifications (preferred): - Bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering or a closely related engineering discipline. - Research experience involving ground improvement, chemical stabilization, mineral carbonation, soil-binder interactions, geomaterials, or laboratory and field testing of stabilized soils. - Experience developing or conducting laboratory-scale, pilot-scale, or field-scale research. - Experience supervising or mentoring undergraduate or graduate researchers. - Teaching experience or demonstrated potential to teach undergraduate and graduate courses in geotechnical engineering. - Experience preparing research proposals or contributing to externally funded research. - Record of peer-reviewed scholarly publication. Skills: Could be derived from both required and preferred, but we might combine some like "research skills", "teaching skills", "communication", "collaboration", "technical writing", "data analysis", "ability to obtain security clearance". However we must not invent details; we can list skills explicitly mentioned: ability to conduct and communicate high-quality research, ability to work collaboratively, effective written and oral communication skills, ability to obtain/maintain authorization, teaching experience/potential, research experience, supervising/mentoring, proposal writing, etc. We'll create a Skills section with bullet list of those skills. Benefits: The posting mentions benefits: tuition benefits (employee and dependent), comprehensive insurance coverage including medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, retirement plan options. Also quality of life aspects: beautiful Central Maine, cultural activities, excellent public schools, safe neighborhoods, high quality medical care, little traffic, reasonable cost of living. We'll include those. Pay: "Typical hiring salary for this position is $80,000 - $90,000 commensurate with qualifications and experience." Schedule: "initial two-year, fixed-length, academic-year appointment" and start date Jan 1 2027. So schedule: two-year fixed-length academic-year appointment, anticipated start Jan 1, 2027. We must not include filler like "commensurate with qualifications and experience" in Pay? It's part of the sentence; it's okay. The instruction: "never emit a heading followed by filler/placeholder text (e.g. 'commensurate with experience', 'not specified', 'N/A', 'varies', 'TBD')". The Pay section includes the range and then "commensurate with qualifications and experience." That's not filler; it's part of the description. It's okay. Now we need to output HTML fragment with

headings and

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  for prose. We must not include any markdown fences. We'll produce something like:

  About the role

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  Responsibilities

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  Similarly for Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. We need to ensure we don't duplicate content across sections. For Skills we can list distinct skill statements not already covered as responsibilities? Might be okay to have some overlap but we should avoid redundancy. However instruction: "Preserve ALL substantive information". So we need to keep all info; duplication may be okay if it's present in multiple places? But we should try to not repeat same sentence verbatim across sections unless it's naturally part of both. But we can keep it if needed. Better to extract distinct pieces: About the role: includes description of position, department, university, resources, start date, appointment length, focus on AS2 project, teaching contribution, work-life integration, department info, MCEC, university stats, etc. Responsibilities: list of duties. Requirements: mandatory qualifications. Qualifications: preferred qualifications.