ICEYE

Engineering Operations Lead

ICEYE

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: Warsaw • Poland

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Job Level

Senior

About the role

  • - Project Oversight:
  • - Support Engineering Manager in daily operations and activity planning.
  • - Communicate and follow-up with various internal and external stakeholders, ensuring execution progresses.
  • - Facilitate efficient technical decision-making by assembling the right experts, resolving most issues directly, and escalating major implications to Directors or senior leadership.
  • - Use available tools to motivate teams and enable project leads to work effectively, prioritizing team morale and collaboration for project success.
  • - Critical Planning & Execution:
  • - Perform work breakdown (WBS).
  • - Build, monitor, and maintain the project timeline.
  • - Identify, assess, and mitigate risks proactively.
  • - Facilitate the decision-making process, identifying bottlenecks and escalating risks to the team.
  • - Ensure comprehensive planning and foresight across the project lifecycle.
  • - Process & Best Practice Enablement:
  • - Run the project management process, including resource allocation and reporting.
  • - Develop and implement ways to share best project management practices across the organization.
  • - Align with the supply chain on the prioritization of orders and provide visibility on critical items.

Requirements

  • - Technical Acumen and Systems Thinking: Able to understand the technical requirements and complexity of the project and dissect what the main bottlenecks and challenges would be.
  • - Hands-on Experience: Possess hands-on experience in relevant technical domain (degree in Science or Engineering) and knows how long things take because you have done them or worked closely with stakeholders.
  • - Risk Management: Able to understand where to take risk and comfortably take that risk when needed for project success. On the other hand, ability to communicate risks to the stakeholders and work with them on mitigation strategies.
  • - Contingency Thinker: Know that the project needs a Plan A, B, C, D... and is always ready to change direction to succeed.
  • - Proactive Drive: you respond to challenges by saying, "let me take a look," and immediately devise a plan with compromises to achieve success.
  • - Attention to detail: you are able to diligently comprehend project documentation and overview, break it down and identify gaps, bottlenecks and possible issues.
  • - Team player and people person: you love to work with people and are an excellent communicator, not scared to flag identified issues. You are able to work with limited information and resources first and create reasonable assumptions and adjust them, until ambiguities are resolved.
Benefits
  • **What’s In It for You?**
  • - A job that matters in a dynamic Earth Observation environment with a scale-up approach
  • - An independent role with a supportive and diverse work environment
  • - A yearly benefit budget to spend as you wish (MyBenefit i.e. on sport, transport, wellness, lunch, tourism, etc.)
  • - Relocation support (i.e. flight tickets, accommodation, relocation agency support etc.)
  • - Time for self-development, research, training, conferences, or certification schemes
  • - Polish language lessons
  • - Occupational and private healthcare and life insurance
  • - Inspiring and collaborating offices and silent workspaces enable you to focus
  • - A wide variety of the best coffee, tea, snacks, and sweets to accompany your daily space mission
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
project managementwork breakdown structurerisk managementresource allocationproject timeline managementtechnical acumensystems thinkingcontingency planningprocess improvementstakeholder communication
Soft Skills
team playercommunicationproactive driveattention to detailproblem-solvingcollaborationdecision-makingadaptabilityleadershipmotivation
Certifications
degree in Sciencedegree in Engineering