Sensing Programme Manager – Field Deployments

Onodrim Industries; Zürich; On-site; CHF 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Onodrim Industries is building Europe's largest defence and industrial platform. The Programme Manager for Sensing leads a single engagement from scope to delivery, coordinating budget, milestones and partners across field deployments.

You'll chair design reviews, manage real-world tests and hand off to portfolio manufacturers, traveling across Europe to sites while ensuring compliance, schedules and tests meet user needs and security requirements.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in sensing or sensor systems, including at least 3 years hands-on as an engineer.
• 2+ years running programmes or projects with real ownership: budget, schedule, external partners.
• Clear understanding of how physical signals become detections and how noise limits modalities.
• Experience with field deployments or tests in defence or critical infrastructure contexts.

Responsibilities

• Run the engagement: own scope, plan, budget, risk register and schedule; report weekly.
• Write the requirement: translate needs into operations concepts and acceptance criteria.
• Manage the partner: SOWs, milestones, data sharing, IP terms; resolve conflicts.
• Judge the engineering: chair reviews, evaluate data, decide readiness to proceed.
• Run the trials: plan and execute lab tests and field deployments; turn results into decisions.
• Coordinate engineers: align software/hardware work with partner needs.
• Support the deal team: contribute sensing-view to diligence and negotiations.
• Plan the hand-off: ensure outputs can be industrialised and owned by a manufacturer.
• Keep it compliant: manage test-site approvals, data handling, export control, security.

Skills

Programme management

Sensing systems

Budget management

Field deployment

Education

Electrical/Mechanical Engineering or Physics

Job description

Onodrim Industries is building Europe's largest defence and industrial platform. The Programme Manager for Sensing leads a single engagement from scope to delivery, coordinating budget, milestones and partners across field deployments.

You'll chair design reviews, manage real-world tests and hand off to portfolio manufacturers, traveling across Europe to sites while ensuring compliance, schedules and tests meet user needs and security requirements.