Lead Control Engineer - Space & Semicon

Main responsibilities 

• You will take the responsibility for monitoring schedule and progress of the control team within a project. You will focus on steering the control team towards the desired results within time and budget.
• You know the importance of dynamic modeling, both lumped-mass and finite-element, especially when designing complex mechatronic systems from scratch, and can communicate with experts in these fields. 
• You are aware of the importance of feedback control and frequency-domain analyses, both in design and experimental phases, and are familiar with the language and terminology of control specialists; you can interpret Bode and Nyquist diagrams and spectral density plots, and can relate these to mechanical system properties or disturbance sources.
• You are able to oversee the required mechatronics- and control-related efforts in a new project, are able to make realistic schedule and cost estimates, and put the right people on the right tasks. If needed, you will be able to do some hands-on work.
• You also enjoy the managerial part of the lead role, in terms of monitoring the team’s progress and facilitating your team with tools and resources. 
• You can interface with the system engineer to downflow and translate relevant requirements to the control team and return important results back to the system engineer. 
• You will interface with suppliers and partners and derive specifications for required hardware and defining acceptance tests.  

Requirements

• You have a MSc, preferably a PhD, in Mechanical Engineering, with a specialization in control.
• You have at least 5 years of experience.
• You have a pioneering mentality and are comfortable with the uncertainty that comes with scientific and engineering challenges.​
• You have excellent communication skills, energy, creativity and boundless curiosity.
• You are able to motivate, convince and inspire colleagues and partners.
• You are creative and have a good understanding of the concepts of control design and engineering, being aware of the possibilities and challenges of high-performance control in mechatronic systems.
• You enjoy interfacing with partners, subcontractors, suppliers and customers.
• You are honest, transparent, have trust in your control specialists and dare to take responsibility of their results. ​