Senior Group Leader – Integration, Verification, and Validation

Guide a team of 20-35 mechatronic engineers to integrate complex systems, verify design requirements, and validate solutions that impact the semicon industry. In this dynamic organisation, we focus on change management while maintaining performance in our current large projects (totalling +/- 700 colleagues). These changes aim to enhance professional competence and people management, fostering creative system thinking within each competence group and creating a great workplace for our highly skilled engineers.

 Your Role

Guide technical talent, support their growth, and enhance IVV competence by continuously improving processes and ensuring the highest quality designs that shape the future of technology.

Your key responsibilities include:

• Leadership: Lead a group of approximately 20-35 mechatronic engineers in conceptual design, analysis, and development of new products and innovative enhancements to existing products.
• People Management and Development: Oversee recruitment, onboarding, training, mentoring, coaching, and performance evaluations to nurture the growth and career development of your team.
• Competence Ownership: Take responsibility for the IVV competence, continuously improving processes and ensuring the highest quality designs.
• Knowledge Retention and Continuous Improvement: Foster cumulative growth of the IVV competence by ensuring knowledge is retained and advanced, while simultaneously leading projects that enhance the quality and efficiency of our organisation.
• Roadmap Development and Quality Assurance: Build and manage technical and group roadmaps while prioritising quality in all engineering processes to maintain high standards of operational excellence and drive projects to fruition.
• Cross-Disciplinary Collaboration: Work with multiple engineering disciplines and co-developers to ensure timely realisation of competitive, serviceable products that advance the semiconductor industry.

We seek a technical and people-oriented manager with a hands-on mentality, capable of shaping the strategy and development of our organisation at a transcendent level.

The ideal candidate will possess:

• Leadership Track Record: Experience in a group leader role, managing engineers at an academic level for over five years.
• Proven IVV Experience: Expertise in system integration, machine operation, verification, qualification, validation, issue resolution, quality assurance, measurement engineering, and data recording.
• Semicon Machines and Facilities: Experience with semiconductor machines and production/test facilities (cleanroom).
• System and Conceptual Thinker: Ability to bridge concepts into pragmatic, evolutionary steps.
• Change Agent: Effective in implementing changes from ideas to execution across the company.
• Adaptability: Comfortable with fast-paced engineering environments, and resilient to change.
• Organisational Efficiency: Skilled in organising resources across multiple engineering facilities and projects, implementing structured processes.

a challenging working environment, competitive salary and the opportunity to play a crucial role in the growth of our innovative company. Working at Technology & Development (T&D) means working at an innovative, enterprising company where 'strength through collaboration' is central. We attach great importance to a collegial, pleasant working atmosphere. In addition to challenging work and nice colleagues, we also offer you: