Integral Project Manager - Mechatronics Systems - Sioux Technologies B.V.

We are currently looking for a medior and a senior project manager.

Our position

As an Integral Project Manager, you are end-to-end responsible, from project initiation until industrialization, for the development of complex mechatronic systems and modules. Your ambition is to manage a multi-disciplinary project team of development engineers. You like to accept responsibility to successfully complete your project. You play a central role in the communication between the customer and the team and in achieving customer satisfaction. You understand the business case your project is working on, look ahead and timely anticipate changes in organization, technology and project. You can allude to these changes and prepare decisions in a clear way. You realize projects for customers in the (high-tech) industrial, medical or automotive market.

Your daily activities include:

• Preparing quotations together with the account manager
• Preparing project plans and subsequently following up and monitoring the time schedule and associated budget
• Preparing progress reports, both internally as well as for the customer
• Risk management and scope management
• Daily management of the project team
• Efficient and effective communication with all stakeholders at all levels; team, colleagues and customers, ranging from engineers to senior management: prepare and facilitate steering committee meetings, preparing decisions to be made, etc.

Our client develops and produces state-of-the-art technology for top organizations within international high-tech industries. Examples includes lithography machines, electron microscopes, smart home automation systems or electric self-charging cars. Our client raises the bar high and often achieves the (near) impossible. They employ teams of enthusiastic electronics, software, mechanics, mechatronics and mathematics specialists with mainly academic backgrounds.

YER Technology offers you the possibility to join as Engineering Professional and to combine challenging assignments with extensive application and career guidance. The following conditions are applicable:

• Attractive salary according to the standards of our client (80 - 100k+ gross per year)
• 33 holidays per year and the option to buy more holidays
• A temporary or permanent contract with YER for 32-40 hours per week
• The possibility to join (y)our client directly after one year
• Travel expense reimbursement
• Good pension scheme according to STIPP
• Every hour of overtime will be compensated
• Open and transparent communication with your personal consultant
• Free Dutch classes
• Personal career coaching from our occupational psychologists
• Broad technical and softs skills training opportunities
• A Service Desk ready to answer all your practical questions

Hard skills:

• You have a technical degree on a higher professional or university education level
• You have at least 10 years of experience in high tech systems development, of which at least 3 to 8 years in the field of managing/ leading projects
• You have experience with assessing and realising multi-disciplinary development projects for mechatronic systems, (series) production and/or NPI (end-to-end projects)
• You have an eye for the business interests of both the customer and your own organisation
• You have demonstrable experience with product development approaches, such as V-Model, Waterfall, Agile or Scrum
• You are familiar with methodological development processes and project management approaches such as Prince II, IPMA, PMBOK and/or CMMI
• You are fluent in English, both verbally and in writing, and you have excellent communication skills

Soft skills:

• You are able to play a solid bridging role between the customer and the technical team.
• You are flexible, you are able to deal with the customer’s ever-changing requirements and at the same time, you are able to find a balance between relenting and sticking to agreements
• With a pragmatic approach you monitor quality and you take care of utilization of the right processes