Lead Control
As Lead Control, you will mainly participate as a Control Engineer in the Software department but you will also have some lead tasks. You will keep an overview of the Control deadlines, plan Control meetings and you are the main point of contact for the other departments.
As Lead Control, you will keep track of the Control team inside the Software department. You will make sure everybody is on track and look ahead for possible problems to arise. Besides that, you are able to assess the delivered work on their quality, based on your function specific knowledge. Your function does however mainly focus on engineering related activities, you will be conducting research into improving the current control systems and identifying new and potentially better control methods.
What you will do as Lead Control
As Lead Control, you will always be up to date on the progress of the other Control Engineers. You will oversee the entire control system and inform the Control team about the high-level software and embedded systems software. Furthermore, you will update the Chief Engineer on the progress and the possible problems that could evolve. Together with them and the leads of the other technical departments, you will discuss the decisions that have to be made on a system level.
Roughly 20% of your time will be spent doing lead tasks, and for the other 80% you will be contributing as an engineer in the department. You will look critically at the performance of your control systems and you will be testing and tuning them on the test-setup.
You recognize yourself in
You enjoy helping other people when needed.
You have an affinity for programming and have some experience with either Python or C++.
You enjoy cooperating with people from different disciplines.
You are interested in control systems and have a basic knowledge in them.
You have strong communicative skills and are able to transfer technical knowledge.
You are enthusiastic to fill up any knowledge gaps you may have.
You want to become (even) better at
Analyzing and solving problems in a practical way.
Putting your theoretical knowledge about control systems into practice.
Implementing controllers on a physical system.
Working together in a big multi-disciplinary team.
Working with deadlines and other responsibilities.
Working independently within a team, setting your own deadlines while taking into account many others.
You get in return
Technical and personal skills.
Experience in working together in a large multi-disciplinary team.
Working independently within a team, setting your own deadlines while taking into account many others.
Contacts at big and well known (Control) companies.
The space to make mistakes and learn from them.
A year full of unforgettable memories and new friends.