R&d Manager

For the R&D department of Schunk Xycarb Technology, we are looking for a

R&D Manager
- working time: full-time
- job location: Helmond - NL

**What are your main responsibilities?**:
As a R&D Manager, you’ll be leading around 10 R&D Engineers and staff of the Laboratory.

Tasks you have as a manager are:

- Establish in collaboration with the CTO and your peers within the Innovation & Technology group our technology roadmap
- Successful drive and realize the R&D roadmap, including coordination of R&D programs and projects, in close coordination with the Product Marketing, Quality and Process Engineering departments group.
- Participate in, set up and manage (international) development programmes, often in collaboration with research institutions and universities,
- Oversee the analytical laboratory in Helmond, set appropriate targets, KPI’s and service metrics.
- Management of standard personnel topics, such as conducting performance & appraisal interviews of the teams, work planning, Development, promotions, recruitment etc.

**What are your skills?**:
To be considered for this position we ask that you:

- At least a Master degree or PhD in Physics, Chemistry, Material Science or related field
- Sound experience in a managerial or project leading position within a high tech R&D environment;
- Leadership; You are a natural leader and team builder; can keep an overview in a complex environment; are enthusiastic and know how to win stakeholders for R&D programs;
- Innovation is in your DNA as you drive towards development, whereby new and original ideas are identified, generated, and implemented
- Customer oriented; you think along with internal and external customers in the interests of the long term strategy of the company.
- You are analytical, thinks in processes who clarifies challenges and are solution-oriented;
- You are decisive, steadfast, yet flexible.
- A good command of the English language (written and spoken) (Dutch is not mandatory but appreciated);
- Your home base will be at our Helmond site.

And, last but not least, to live up to the core competencies of Schunk Xycarb Technology: Innovation, Collaboration, and Customer Focus.

**What Schunk Xycarb Technology offers you**:

- A high-tech working environment within an ambitious and growing company in the global semiconductor market;
- An informal culture with employees with more than 25 nationalities;
- A challenging position with plenty of development opportunities, in which you are stimulated in your professional and personal development;
- An attractive remuneration package consisting of a good salary, bonus system, and secondary benefits (e.g., 27 days of holidays, 13 ADV days)
- Out-of-the-office activities (e.g., Sinterklaas for children, annual BBQ, divers sporting activities).

**About the Schunk Group**:
The Schunk Group is a global materials and engineering multinational technology group with approximately 10,000 employees from 29 countries. Its headquarter is based in Germany with consolidated sales of over 1.65 Billion. The company is a leading supplier of products from high-tech materials - such as carbon, technical ceramics, and sintered metal - and machines and systems - from environmental simulation to air-conditioning technology and from ultrasonic welding to optical machines.

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