R&D Project Manager
IMS Almelo
What is required?
- Bachelor's or Master's degree
- Minimum of 5 years work experience
- Project management skills
- Good command of the Dutch and English languages, both verbally and in writing
- Organizational skills
What will you get?
- €5.000 - €7.500 gross p/m, depending on knowledge and experience
- 40-hour working week
- 27 holiday days + 7 atv days
- Personal training budget
What will you do?
- 60% Coaching and guiding colleagues, coordinating projects
- 10% Aligning colleagues
- 10% Aligning System Architects
- 10% Aligning clients
- 10% Project administration
This vacancy has been created based on interviews with employees to help you get a realistic preview of the job.
Vacancy
As a R&D Project Manager at IMS, you are responsible for leading R&D development projects and the success of these projects. You will lead the internal R&D project team and make sure that by taking the right decisions, the project deliverables will be delivered on time, with the right quality and within budget.
Moreover, you regularly brainstorm with the System Architect about the first designs, which are often in the form of a system or a machine. So you not only coordinate and manage, but also advise and collaborate on the content. A project starts with an extensive introduction and kick-off, after which the client's requirements are clear. You work these out and communicate them to your team members accordingly. From then onwards, you remain closely involved by continually fine-tuning matters.
Especially in R&D projects, proper communication is essential because it is often necessary to adjust goals. While doing this, you also keep commercial project objectives in mind and know how to find the balance between a good result and the investments previously made to achieve this result.
You will work in the R&D team consisting of various Engineers, for example in the field of Mechanics, System & Control and Applied Mathematics. It differs per R&D project what your team exactly looks like, how much budget and time you get from your supervisor and the client, and what the (internal or external) project deadline is.
Acquisition in response to this vacancy is not appreciated. We do not derive rights or obligations from profiles and cv's that are sent unsolicited. Therefore, we regard them as not being sent.
If you enjoy communicating with all kinds of colleagues and parties, conveying your story with determination, and find it challenging to be decisive when an R&D project is slow, then this is a job for you.
Working week
During an interesting working day, you have meetings with the Business Developers, the Managing Director and some Mechanical Engineers. You are also working on the preparations for the kick-off of a project, which gives a lot of energy.
During a less enjoyable day, a client asks if the project deadline can be postponed for a week. As a result, you have to rearrange the planning and make a lot of arrangements to meet this deadline.
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- 11:00
- 12:00
- 13:00
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- 15:00
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- 18:00
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- Lunch
- Project administration
- Project coordination
- Meeting R&D Project team
- Project coordination
- Project coordination
- Call with client
- Evaluate project progress and adjust follow-up plan
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- Lunch
- R&D stand-up
- Meeting Business Developer and R&D Director
- Meeting Mechanical Engineers
- Meeting Project Managers consortium
- Preparing project kick-off
- Preparing presentation stakeholders
- Project administration
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- Lunch
- Project kick-off
- Travelling
- Travelling
- Reviewing project designs
- Meeting System Architect
- Project coordination
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- Lunch
- Project coordination
- Adjusting the planning
- Urgent meeting Engineers R&D Project team
- Adjusting the planning
- Meeting Optical Engineers
- Learning Cycle Event (internal project)
- Meeting Project Managers consortium
- Supporting R&D Engineers
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- Lunch
- Project administration
- Working on risk analysis
- Meeting Salesteam
- Meeting Manager
- Project coordination
- Meeting R&D Project team
- Meeting System Architect
- Reviewing deliverables
Firsthand experience
Growth
The growth path within IMS is not fixed. You will be given the opportunity and room for personal and professional growth, for example by following training courses. IMS makes a budget and set time available for this. In addition, initiative and entrepreneurship are highly valued within IMS.
Working at IMS
IMS (Integrated Mechanization Solutions) develops and supplies highly accurate production systems. IMS has been doing this for twenty years, with Almelo as its place of business. IMS specialises in building (automated) assembly lines and in process automation for small, complex products and assemblies. IMS always strives for accuracy and high volumes in the assembly lines.
The customers IMS supports are mainly OEMs and TIER 1 suppliers in the field of automotive, photonics, smart devices and the medical world.
*Acquisition in response to vacancies is not appreciated. We do not derive rights or obligations from profiles and cv's that are sent unsolicited. Therefore, we regard them as not being sent.
- Headquarters in Almelo
- Installations based in more than 20 countries
- 120 employees in the Netherlands
- 20 % / 80%
- Average age 40 years
- Possibility to work from home 20% of your time