Sander van der Maat
Sr. Talent Acquisition +31(0)40-2677100
As Group Lead Drive & Control your role involves taking on challenging tasks and responsibilities within our Mechatronic System Design Department.
At Sioux Technologies, we develop and build complex high-tech products, often at the limit of what is technologically possible. We do this together, within a close-knit team of enthusiastic specialists in electronics, software, optics & physics, mechanics, mechatronics and mathematics. This is how we bring high-tech to life that makes society healthier, safer, smarter, more sustainable and more fun. This could be for a large project at a renowned multinational or for a promising start-up developing the next breakthrough technology.
What excites you as a Group Lead Drive & Control
As a group leader you ensure that the group is qualitatively and quantitatively in balance with the projects, and you also make a substantive contribution to our mechatronic projects in understanding the resource needs. You are eager to improve your teams’ competences and strive for coordination with Sioux Technologies program managers. Together with the Manager Mechatronics and the other 2 group leads, you form the heart of Systems Engineering at Sioux Technologies.
- People management: You are responsible for a group of 15-25 employees. Associated tasks are career and assignment counseling. You’re leading the assessment of (potential) team members. You ensure a good working environment and stimulate personal development of your team.
- Competence management: You ensure that the required knowledge within the group matches the technology roadmap. For example, by initiating technical training courses or spotting opportunities in on the job learning of employees.
- Projects: By understanding the project signature, you make a substantial contribution in identifying resource needs. You are regularly involved in the acquisition process of projects.
- Recruitment and selection: You support recruitment events (trade fairs and ‘open days’), think along with the labor market campaigns and conduct selection and recruitment interviews with applicants.
Our Manager Mechatronics & Program Manager about Drive & Control: “Extreme positioning is key in many of our systems. At the front of the creation process, the team identifies which drivetrain is appropriate for the specified movement. Questions that shall be addressed are for example, what type of actuator are we going to use? (stepper, BLDC, voice coil, reluctance?) What should the drivetrain look like between the actuator and the load? (belt, spindle, or direct drive?) Does the previous choice have implications for the calibration strategy? For many drive topologies it must be indicated what the requirements are for control engineering. What should the bandwidth be and are the dynamics of the drivetrain compatible with those requirements? The solution is often interwoven in the system, which makes the Drive & Control team an incubator for future system architects.”
Your future workplace
This is what brings you to the table
- A completed academic education in mechatronics, preferably affinity with dynamics.
- At least 5 years of experience in managing a multidisciplinary team of professionals.
- Interest and preferably experience with model-based systems engineering.
- A broad view of technology and (preferably a lot of) experience with control technology
- Strong Leadership skills and the ability to coach and guide engineers, designers, and architects, but also enabling effective stakeholder management within the organization, as well as with suppliers and customers.
Why you want to work here
- You will work within a pleasant working environment, in which High-Tech, High-Fun & High-Value are central.
- A 32-40 hour working week, with room to work from home. A healthy work-life balance is very important to us!
- No matter how experienced you are, you will continue to develop yourself on a personal and technical level. You have a personal training budget of €6000 available for this, every year.
- A VitaliTech budget that you can use, for example, to pay for your sports subscription or the purchase of a smart watch, laptop or bicycle.
- We love continuous development, people, good ideas and Sioux!
- We also find it incredibly important to have fun together - no joke! We organize a lot for our employees from family festivals to inspiring knowledge sessions.
- You work on the Sioux Campus and can use our Sioux Labs living room every day to have lunch, play sports or music and share your knowledge with colleagues.