Head of Engineering

The organisation

SRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research is the Dutch institute for space research. SRON is an institute of NWO, the Organization for Scientific Research. As a national expertise institute, SRON advises the Dutch government and coordinates national contributions to international space missions.

The position

& Female Capital is searching for a Head of Engineering (EG) for SRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research. 

Tasks & responsibilities

The head of engineering is a culture bearer of EG and is able to ensure the quality level of EG's contribution to the SRON organization and its projects and improve it where necessary. You are a role model for colleagues and an ambassador who puts EG on the map internally and externally.

You lead SRON's Engineering Department (EG) and thus also the EG Management Team consisting of the four section heads referred to above. You are also a permanent member of the SRON Management Team (MT, direction of the SRON Institute).

Your main tasks are the staffing and co-steering of the realization of the projects, the strategic vision, policy and development of EG and the institute as a whole, leading EG (55 - 60 FTE) indirectly and directly to 4 section heads and maintaining of contacts with national industry and knowledge institutes in the field of engineering.

Candidate profile

A few terms that fits the position (based on intake interviews with colleagues:

Confidence - Decisiveness - Visibility - Ability to develop vision for EG - Self-aware- Integrity - Firmness - Sensitivity - Refreshing - Ability to listen well - 
Openness - Often to be seen in department - Equal partner for the program leaders - Representing the engineers - Empathic - Having both feet on the ground - Feeling for the Engineers - Always able to be there for the employees - Connecting leadership

Interested?

You can apply to this position by using the form below. For more information please contact Henriette Verbeem (06 15268113) or Frank van Veen (06 15676399).

Nota bene: & Female Capital is an executive search agency that deliberately places exclusively women in order to make its contribution to greater diversity at the top of organizations in the Netherlands.