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Project Manager

Project Manager


Are you a Project Manager who is motivated to deliver customer-facing projects within the project boundaries (time, scope, budget, and quality)? Do you thrive in a young, passionate team of engineers with multidisciplinary backgrounds? If your answer is yes, then you are the person we are looking for!

You will be working together with the team on defining, steering, and delivering various customer projects. Your job will vary from project planning, monitoring, reporting, and interacting with internal and/or external clients.

Besides working on the most innovative and challenging projects and products, we also find it important to celebrate our successes and do a lot of fun things together as a team such as team barbeques, sporting events, and a yearly team weekend.

RESPONSIBILITIES AND TASKS

  • Define and execute (customer) projects; write a project plan, define, and maintain the planning, monitor, and report on the progress.

  • Identify and act on potential risks and opportunities.

  • Manage customer relations and expectations

  • Facilitate the team in their day-to-day work; e.g. define and estimate activities, identify and remove impediments, facilitate reflection and encourage improvements.

  • Continuously improving our way of working and proactively identifying and implementing ideas to make the project team even higher performing.

    YOUR SPECS

You are familiar with project management, you take initiative, you are able to oversee your own and your team’s tasks and responsibilities, and you can work autonomously. With your excellent communication skills and technical knowledge, you can easily communicate with different disciplines and backgrounds to ensure alignment both within and across the teams. You thrive in a young and dynamic environment where you can bring structure and contribute to further professionalizing the organization. On top of that you:

  • Have a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in a relevant technical area.

  • At least 5 years of relevant project management experience in a technology or R&D driven environment.

  • A team player who works well in a multidisciplinary environment and is able to inspire and motivate the team.

  • Pro-active and in possession of good analytical and problem-solving skills to help the customer by understanding their problem and how this translates into project deliverables.

  • Outstanding planning, coordination, and organizing skills.

  • Hands-on mentality, getting the job done while seeing the bigger picture.

  • Driven and willing to take ownership.

  • Excellent proficiency in spoken and written English, and preferably Dutch.

  • Affinity with mobile robots and autonomous systems.

The following is a plus:

  • Knowledge of PRINCE2, IPMA, or other project management methods.

  • Knowledge of Agile Scrum and/or Kanban.

  • Knowledge of or experience with Atlassian Jira and/or Confluence.

    OUR OFFER

  • Join a fast-growing tech company transforming the future of robotics.

  • Be part of our dynamic, passionate, multi-disciplinary team of professionals representing all disciplines of robot development. 

  • Plenty of room for personal development, implementing new ideas, and opportunities. 

  • Game nights, Friday afternoon drinks, and all kinds of team events.

  • Enough time to rest and relax with 30 paid vacation days (excl. national holidays). 

  • Participation plan so you can benefit from the growth and success of our company. 

  • Non-contributory pension scheme. 

  • A reimbursement for your travel costs.

  • The best fuel: good coffee & weekly fresh fruit. 

  • Location: Strijp-T, Eindhoven, where you’ll be surrounded by other innovative companies. 

    WHO ARE WE

     

“With Gorgeous Tech, we accelerate the creation of Mobile Robotic Applications that shape a Brighter Future for all.” 

We are a fast-growing high-tech robotics scale-up from Eindhoven. At Avular, we believe that robots are essential to sustain our society as a whole. Therefore, we aim to make the implementation of robots in practice as easy as possible. We develop the core technology for autonomous robots and build our own drones and driving robots from the ground up. We focus on modularity, making us versatile and adaptable to specific client wishes or changing market conditions. We firmly believe in collaborating with other companies that have their own expertise outside the robotics domain. Our robots can be found in various industries, focusing on Agriculture and Construction, Industrial drones, Hospitality, Care, and Service.

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Are you our new colleague?

Send your application, including your resume and motivational letter, to our Talent Acquisition Partner Esther Haes via [email protected].

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