Sensing Programs Lead - Field Trials & Partners

Onodrim Industries; Zürich; Presencial; CHF 140.000 - 190.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Onodrim Industries is building Europe’s largest defence and industrial platform, focusing on sensing systems for perimeter, border and battlefield awareness. The Programme Manager for Sensing leads a single engagement at a time from scope to hand-off, ensuring budget, milestones and partner relationships stay aligned while field deployments occur at partner sites.

You will chair design reviews, translate partner needs into system requirements, and coordinate engineers across hardware and

Formación

• A degree in electrical or mechanical engineering, physics, geophysics, acoustics, digital signal processing or a closely related discipline.
• 5+ years in sensing or sensor systems, including at least 3 years hands-on as an engineer – sensor hardware, signal processing, data acquisition, systems or test – before moving into programme or product responsibility.
• At least 2 years running programmes or projects with real ownership: budget, schedule, external partners and a customer who signs off.
• Working knowledge of how physical signals become detections: sensor physics and placement, signal conditioning, digital signal processing, detection and classification, and the environmental and noise effects that limit each modality.
• Experience with at least one of acoustic, seismic, vibration or similar mechanical-waveform sensing, and the curiosity to pick up others.
• Experience with field deployments or operational testing of sensors, ideally with military, border or critical-infrastructure users.
• Comfort managing external engineering partners – companies, institutes, subcontractors – and holding them to commitments.
• Structured, numbers-driven working style: risk registers, test plans and status reports that someone can act on.
• Clear, direct communication in English, written and spoken, with engineers, partners and users alike.
• Willingness to travel extensively across Europe – partner sites, field deployments, portfolio companies.
• Right to work in the UK, Switzerland or the EU, and eligibility for a national security clearance in at least one of our operating countries.

Responsabilidades

• Run the engagement: Own scope, plan, budget, risk register and schedule for the engagement you're assigned; report status weekly in numbers, escalates early, and execute well to completion.
• Write the requirement: Turn a partner's or customer's need into a concept of operations, a system requirement and acceptance criteria that engineers can build to and users can test against.
• Manage the partner: Be the day-to-day counterpart for the partner company, institute or portfolio company with SOWs, milestones, data sharing, IP and commercial terms in coordination with deal and legal teams.
• Judge the engineering: Chair design reviews, read test data, challenge sensor, processing and deployment choices, and decide when the system is good enough to proceed.
• Run the trials: Plan and execute lab tests, field deployments and user demonstrations in realistic terrain and conditions.
• Coordinate our engineers: Bring R&D's software and hardware engineers onto the engagement with clear work packages, and keep their work and the partner's integrated.
• Support the deal team: Contribute the sensing-domain view to technical diligence of acquisition targets and partnerships.
• Plan the hand-off: Design the engagement so outputs can be industrialised and owned by a manufacturer – documentation, BOM, test and qualification.
• Keep it compliant: Manage test-site approvals, data handling, export control and security classification.
• Feed the strategy: Bring what you learn back to Head of Research & Development to shape future targets.

Conocimientos

Programme management

Sensing system engineering

Budget ownership

Schedule management

Field deployments

Stakeholder communication

English communication

Travel willingness

Security clearance eligibility

Educación

Bachelor's degree in Electrical or Mechanical Engineering

Descripción del empleo

Onodrim Industries is building Europe’s largest defence and industrial platform, focusing on sensing systems for perimeter, border and battlefield awareness. The Programme Manager for Sensing leads a single engagement at a time from scope to hand-off, ensuring budget, milestones and partner relationships stay aligned while field deployments occur at partner sites.

You will chair design reviews, translate partner needs into system requirements, and coordinate engineers across hardware and