Jack Houet
Recruitment Manager
As Department Manager Mechanical Development your role involves taking on challenging tasks and responsibilities within our Mechanics Department.
Sioux Technologies develops and produces state-of-the-art technology for the top end of the international high-tech community. Examples include a complex lithography machine, a compact electron microscope, a smart home automation system. We raise the bar high and we often achieve the impossible. We do so together, as a team of enthusiastic mechanics, electronics, software, mechatronics and mathematics specialists.
What makes you enthusiastic as a Department Manager Mechanical Development
As Department Manager in Mechanics, you will oversee our Mechanics programs for high-end systems and manage the entire portfolio of our projects together with your two Group leads. You will cultivate and lead your team, attract top talent and nurturing our competence in Mechanics at Sioux. Your team will serve as the linchpin, connecting customers, development teams, operations, and suppliers. Your responsibilities will encompass defining and implementing operational and organizational processes to ensure world-class Mechanical development.Your future workplace
Why you want to work here
- You will work within a pleasant working environment, in which High-Tech, High-Fun & High-Value are central.
- Within Sioux, everyone gets a lot of freedom and responsibility to perform their work in the best possible way.
- No matter how experienced you are, you will continue to develop yourself on a personal level and in terms of content. You have a personal training budget of €6000 available for this, every year.
- 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.
Sound good so far? We'd love to tell you more...
Working in high-tech.
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, mechanics, mechatronics, physics, optics 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.
High Tech, High Fun, High Value
We can tell you all about the typical Sioux-culture and the high-tech challenging projects. About how you can develop yourself, like nowhere else. But we’d rather have you hear it from our own employees, including physicists Elif and Marnix.
This is what you bring to the table
- A completed MSc degree in Mechanical Engineering (or comparable)
- You have significant experience in complex, multi-disciplinary high-tech systems development and Mechanical engineering, with at least 5 years in a leadership role, preferably in the High Tech Domain.
- Strong communication skills and the ability to coach and guide other Engineers, designers and architects.
- Your communication skills are outstanding, enabling effective stakeholder management within the organization, as well as with suppliers and customers.
- Your leadership abilities are exemplary, capable of inspiring and influencing others while adeptly managing a team.
This is what you can expect in return from us
- A 32-40 hour working week, with room to work from home. A healthy work-life balance is very important to us!
- Personal coaching and a training budget of €6000 per year, so that you can continue to develop yourself.
- 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.
- You get a lease car, travel allowance or public transport pass. If you prefer to use one of our electric shared cars, this is of course also possible!
- Invitations to fun socials and activities for you, as well as for your partner and family.