Lead Control Engineer - Space & Semicon

About this job

We are currently looking for a Lead Control Engineer to join the team in Delft.

As a Lead Control Engineer, you will work on complex Space and Semicon projects, being responsible for leading a team of 2-3 dynamics & control specialists and engineers, and act as the point-of-contact for the control discipline within mechatronic projects.

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.

Company

At S[&]T we contribute to a safer life on earth by translating space data into valuable and actionable insights. We oversee data from instruments to application, and apply our expertise within our software frameworks, information products and consultancy.

Our society relies on space and scientific instruments for climate change monitoring, navigation, defence and national security, and other crucial services we all use in our daily lives. These instruments produce an enormous quantity of complex data, and our goal is to unlock its value.

We have more than 20 years of experience working on instrument calibration, the creation of data quality monitoring tools, the development of real-time data processing frameworks, and the development of application-specific algorithms. With this, we help organisations, governments and industries to strengthen their information position and thereby improve their decision making. We focus on the following domains: Space & Science, Defence & Security, Environment & Sustainability, and High-Tech Consulting.

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