Working at Centrale Lyon

Every year, Centrale Lyon recruits teaching and research staff for its two campuses in Lyon-Écully and Saint-Étienne. The company carries out numerous QWL initiatives and offers training courses for its staff. It has a gender equality plan and a disability master plan. Centrale Lyon has been awarded the HRS4R label.
2 campuses
in Lyon-Écully and Saint-Étienne
3 000
students
530
staff members
55%
share of Teaching-Research staff
2
staff associations
40%
of women in management positions
32%
telecommuting agents

Recruitment

Centrale Lyon regularly recruits staff for its various departments under the following status:

  • Fonctionnaire
  • Agent contractuel

Opportunities (excluding competitions) are published on the Recruitee platform. Candidates are invited to apply directly on this tool.

 

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Because excellence in teaching relies on excellence in research, Centrale Lyon is committed to recruiting the best teacher-researchers in France and internationally.

120
research contracts signed with companies
15,5M€
in sales
100
annual publications (articles and conferences)
23 000 m²
assigned to research

In 2007, Centrale Lyon embarked on aprogressive approachconcerning the recruitment, career and mobility of researchers, signing the European Researcher's Charter and the Code of Conduct for the Recruitment of Researchers. In pursuit of this approach, Centrale Lyon was awarded the HRS4R labellisation in July 2020, establishing its human resources strategy for researchers. This labeling enables it to extend its visibility at European and international levels, increase the School's attractiveness and pursue its activity in the European Research Framework Program.

To go further, the establishment's practices have been led to evolve in order to come as close as possible to the recommendations set out in the code of conduct for the recruitment of researchers. The implementation of an Open, Transparent and Merit-based Recruitment Policy (OTM-R) is a key action for improving internal practices.

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The teacher-researcher recruitment campaign is open from 4 March 2025 to 4 April 2025, 4pm. Centrale Lyon is recruiting 5 lecturers and 1 university professor for the start of the academic year.

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A complementary recruitment campaign for secondary school teachers is open from Wednesday 12 March 2025 to Tuesday 22 April 2025 via the VEGA module of the Galaxie portal.

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The ATER recruitment campaign usually opens between March and April. Please check back at this time for application opportunities.

To apply as a temporary lecturer, you must directly contact the teaching supervisor or teaching department corresponding to your field of expertise. Once you have been shortlisted, you will receive an e-mail inviting you to follow the dematerialized application procedure to be submitted on : https://scol.ec-lyon.fr/

In all cases, work can only take place once the application has been submitted and validated.

Recruitment procedures and status of part-time lecturers

Part-time lecturers covered by Decree 87-889 fall into 2 categories: part-time lecturers and part-time temporary staff.

Chargés d'enseignements vacataires

Chargés d'enseignements vacataires are people chosen for their expertise in a particular field who also have a main professional activity.

Those recruited must meet the following two conditions:

  • be under 67 years of age,
  • exercise a principal activity which may consist of:
    • the management of a company,
    • a salaried activity of at least 900 hours of work per year (at least 300 hours when teaching activities are involved),
    • a non-salaried activity (self-employed, self-employed entrepreneur) on condition that they can prove by any means that this activity provides regular means of subsistence.
       

Vacationary temporary agents

Those recruited must meet one of the following two conditions:

- be enrolled in preparation for a post-graduate diploma in higher education
- benefit from a retirement pension, pre-retirement allowance or end-of-activity leave, on condition that at the time of termination of their duties they have exercised a main professional activity outside the Ecole Centrale de Lyon
- They may only provide TD, BE or TP within the limit of 96 hours TD or 64 hours for contract doctoral students.

Pro bono speakers

Pro bono speakers must submit an application to be authorized to intervene. They are not remunerated for their work.

Pay rate

The current rate is €43.50 gross per hour of Tutorial Work. All hours are remunerated in TD equivalent hours.

Conversion method (CM, TD, TP)

  • 1 hour lecture is equivalent to 1.5 hour equivalent of Travaux Dirigés
  • 1 hour tutorial is equivalent to 1 hour equivalent of Travaux Dirigés
  • 1 hour practical work is equivalent to 2/3 hour equivalent of Travaux Dirigés

Administrative, technical and library staff are grouped together under the name BIATSS.

The competitive examinations for Research and Training Engineers and Technical Staff (ITRF) concern all professional fields and are open to all, subject to diploma requirements. These research and training professions are divided into 8 Branches d'Activité Professionnelle (BAP), comprising 35 professional activity families and 242 job-types.

ITRFs perform their duties in higher education establishments, major establishments (Collège de France, Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers, Muséum national d'histoire naturelle, Observatoire de Paris, etc.), establishments under the supervision of the French Ministry of Education (INRP, CNDP, CNED, ONISEP, CEREQ) or the decentralized departments of the French Ministry of Education (rectorats and academic inspectorates).

Graduation requirements
For external competitive examinations (open to people from outside the civil service as well as to internal candidates), diploma requirements depend on the recruitment category:

  • Category C: minimum level CAP/BEP
  • Category B: minimum level bac to bac+2
  • Category A: bac +2 to doctorate depending on the body

Equivalences may be required.
These major categories are themselves divided into grades, which comprise several steps.

Application 
The 2025 campaign for ITRF competitions - professional technical competitions - is open from 2 April 2025 (12 noon) to 30 April 2025 (12 noon).

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