Group Leader – Measurement Technology and Systems Integration
Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft
full-time
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Location Type: Office
Location: Wachtberg • 🇩🇪 Germany
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Senior
About the role
- Responsibility for the strategic direction and research focus of your group, as well as the development of novel methods, applications and products.
- Acquisition and coordination of relevant projects funded by public grant agencies and industrial clients – including jointly with other organizational units, institutes or cooperation partners.
- Assuming professional and disciplinary personnel responsibility in coordination with the department management.
- Responsible for the professional development of team members and the scientific competencies of the group.
- Defining and aligning the strategic direction of the group with the department management.
- Coordinating projects and cooperation with internal and external stakeholders.
- Designing transfer activities to translate research results into industrial and military applications.
Requirements
- University degree in electrical engineering, information technology, mechatronics or a related field.
- Several years of relevant professional experience in the development of experimental systems.
- Several years of relevant professional experience in radar development (system design and setup).
- Experience in measurement technology for FMCW and multi-channel radar systems.
- Experience conducting and evaluating customer-specific measurement campaigns.
- Proven experience leading industry and public-funded projects.
- Leadership experience in a technical, disciplinary or project management capacity.
- Excellent analytical skills, enjoyment of abstract thinking and conceptual work.
- Experience in project acquisition and an entrepreneurial mindset.
- Independent yet team-oriented working style with a hands-on mentality.
- Very good English and good German skills, both written and spoken (C1–C2).
Benefits
- Open and collegial working environment within a professional research institution equipped with state-of-the-art technology.
- Additional performance- and success-based variable compensation components.
- Freedom to develop innovative ideas within your research area and support for publications to build reputation and visibility in academia and industry.
- Regular exchange and contact with professional colleagues and renowned national and international partners from science and industry.
- Above-average, supported continuing education culture with a wide range of personal development opportunities, e.g., participation in conferences, workshops and seminars, internal funding programmes, and more.
- Flexible working hours to support a good work–life balance for combining family and career (39-hour week, flexitime system, bridge-day arrangements, option for mobile/home working).
- Company pension scheme (VBL) and subsidy for the Deutschlandticket.
- Cafeteria at the main site and nearby shopping facilities.
- Family-friendly culture, parent-and-child office (bring-your-child workspace).
- Programs for career development of female scientists and women in leadership, debiasing programmes and much more.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
electrical engineeringinformation technologymechatronicsexperimental systems developmentradar developmentmeasurement technologyFMCW radar systemsmulti-channel radar systemsproject managementproject acquisition
Soft skills
leadershipanalytical skillsabstract thinkingconceptual workentrepreneurial mindsetteam-orientedindependent working stylehands-on mentalitycommunication skillscoordination