Project Manager R&D

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 multidisciplinary 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 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. 

The organization develops and produces state-of-the-art technology for the top end of the international high-tech community. Examples include a complex lithography machine, a compact electron microscope, a smart home automation system or an electric self-charging car. They raise the bar high and they often achieve the impossible. They do so together, as a team of enthusiastic electronics, software, mechanics, mechatronics and mathematics specialists. 

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 clients
• 25 holidays per year and the option to buy more holidays. Together with that it's possible to get ATV days if applicable
• A temporary or permanent contract with YER
• The possibility to join (y)our client directly after one year
• Travel expense reimbursement
• Good pension scheme
• 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

This is what we're looking for 

• You have a technical degree on a higher professional or university education level 
• You have at least 12 years of experience in high tech systems development, at least 8 years of which as a project leader or a team leader 
• You are able to play a solid bridging role between the customer and the technical team. you have experience with assessing and realizing multidisciplinary development projects 
• You have experience in (series) production and/or NPI 
• You have an eye for the business interests of both the customer and your own organization 
• 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 
• You have demonstrable experience with Agile and 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 Dutch and English, both verbally and in writing, and you have excellent communication skills