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R&D Manager (Freelance or Contract fixed term of 1 year)
Function
As R&D Manager, you are responsible for coaching the team, setting priorities and helping to resolve escalations. Your focus is not on strategy, but on people-focused management and support of your team members. You are a connector who encourages and leverages expertise in others.
- Responsible for providing technical support to sales on customer visits and preparing quotations.
- Responsible for ensuring that delivered projects meet external and internal requirements.
- Ensure effective transfer to production so that the concept of reproducibility (meeting customer requirements) can be met.
- Responsible for setting and achieving departmental objectives in line with corporate goals.
- Responsible for defining and measuring key parameters that support departmental objectives.
- Responsible for identifying, initiating, operating and managing improvement actions.
- Operational management of the engineering group: evaluation, selection, training and motivation.
- Manage and coordinate necessary internal and external relationships.
- Technology: create a network with suppliers and partners as a basis for identifying technology gaps and opportunities.
Profile
- University Master's degree (engineering level) or equivalent through experience.
- Communication and coordination/leadership skills
- Knowledge of plastic product manufacturing or related processes is an advantage.
- General knowledge of financial reporting and translation to operational PIs.
- Familiar with automotive industry, including standards (such as IATF 16949, ISO 14001, VDA,...) is an advantage.
- You speak very good Dutch and English, German is an advantage.
Organisation
Our client is a leading company specialising in the production of plastic products and related processes. The organisation is known for its innovation, quality and customer focus.
Offer
We offer a challenging position as R&D Manager with a fixed-term contract of 1 year or as a freelancer. In this role, you will have the opportunity to contribute strategically to the company's growth and development within the automotive and industrial sectors.
Wage or rate to be discussed together.
Questions or interest?
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