

Schunk Gruppe
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Within the R&D team, the R&D Manager will drive our R&D roadmap and lead and inspire the R&D team. As a R&D manager, you will also contribute to the technology roadmap. The selected candidate will work within our global organization. Are you ready for the next step in your career? Please, apply today!
R&D Manager
- Working time: full-time
- Job location: Helmond – NL
What are your main responsibilities?
As a R&D Manager, you’ll be leading around 10 R&D Engineers and staff of the Laboratory. Tasks you have as a manager are:
- Establish in collaboration with the CTO and your peers within the Innovation & Technology group our technology roadmap.
- Successfully drive and realize the R&D roadmap, including coordination of R&D programs and projects, in close coordination with the Product Marketing, Quality and Process Engineering departments group.
- Participate in, set up and manage (international) development programmes, often in collaboration with research institutions and universities.
- Oversee the analytical laboratory in Helmond, set appropriate targets, KPI’s and service metrics.
- Management of standard personnel topics, such as conducting performance & appraisal interviews of the teams, work planning, development, promotions, recruitment, etc.
What are your skills?
To be considered for this position we ask that you:
- Have at least a Master degree or PhD in Physics, Chemistry, Material Science or related field.
- Have sound experience in a managerial or project leading position within a high tech R&D environment.
- Be a natural leader and team builder; can keep an overview in a complex environment; are enthusiastic and know how to win stakeholders for R&D programs.
- Possess innovation as part of your DNA as you drive towards development, whereby new and original ideas are identified, generated, and implemented.
- Be customer-oriented; think along with internal and external customers in the interests of the long-term strategy of the company.
- Be analytical, think in processes, clarify challenges, and be solution-oriented.
- Be decisive, steadfast, yet flexible.
- Have a good command of the English language (written and spoken) (Dutch is not mandatory but appreciated).
- Your home base will be at our Helmond site.
And, last but not least, to live up to the core competencies of Schunk Xycarb Technology: Innovation, Collaboration, and Customer Focus.
What Schunk Xycarb Technology offers you:
- A high-tech working environment within an ambitious and growing company in the global semiconductor market.
- An informal culture with employees from more than 25 nationalities.
- A challenging position with plenty of development opportunities, in which you are stimulated in your professional and personal development.
- An attractive remuneration package consisting of a good salary, bonus system, and secondary benefits (e.g., 27 days of holidays, 13 ADV days).
- Out-of-the-office activities (e.g., Sinterklaas for children, annual BBQ, diverse sporting activities).
About the Schunk Group
The Schunk Group is a global materials and engineering multinational technology group with approximately 10,000 employees from 29 countries. Its headquarters is based in Germany with consolidated sales of over 1.65 billion. The company is a leading supplier of products from high-tech materials – such as carbon, technical ceramics, and sintered metal – and machines and systems – from environmental simulation to air-conditioning technology and from ultrasonic welding to optical machines.
Are you the right candidate? Send your CV!
Are you the R&D Manager we are looking for? Then send your CV directly to Tycho Dorleijn via this link. If you need more information, email or call Tycho directly at +31 6 4459 6041. Follow us on LinkedIn at #SchunkXycarbTechnology. Acquisition in response to this vacancy is not desired. We are filling this vacancy through our own recruitment channels. Candidates sent unsolicited by agencies will be treated as direct applicants.
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