Radio Communications & EW Systems Programme Lead

Onodrim Industries; Województwo mazowieckie; On-site; PLN 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Onodrim Industries is seeking a Programme Manager for Radio Communications and EW to run multi-year programmes from scope to acceptance. You’ll own budgets, schedules, risks and supplier relations while guiding engineering teams and partners across Europe.

You’ll bring 5+ years in radio communications, hands-on engineering, and a proven track record in running programmes with real ownership. Travel across Europe is required, and security clearance eligibility is expected.

Qualifications

• A degree in electrical engineering, communications engineering, physics or a closely related discipline.
• 5+ years in radio communications, including at least 3 years hands-on as an engineer – RF, baseband, protocol stack, systems or test – before moving into programme or product responsibility.
• At least 2 years running programmes or projects with real ownership: budget, schedule, suppliers and a customer who signs off.
• Working knowledge of modern radio: software-defined radio, 3GPP/LTE/5G and its use in private and tactical networks, mesh and ad-hoc networking, and what jamming, interception and spectrum contention do to each.
• Experience with field trials or operational testing of radio equipment, ideally with military or public-safety users.
• Comfort managing external engineering partners – vendors, 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, suppliers and customers alike.
• Willingness to travel extensively across Europe – partner sites, trials, portfolio companies.
• Right to work in Switzerland or the EU, and eligibility for a national security clearance in at least one of our operating countries.

Responsibilities

• Run the programme. Own scope, plan, budget, risk register and schedule for each programme you're assigned; report status weekly in numbers, elevate early, and execute well to completion.
• Write the requirement. Turn a customer need, an operational problem or a strategic decision into a concept of operations, a system requirement and a set of acceptance criteria that engineers can build to and users can test against.
• Manage the parties. Coordinate suppliers, semiconductor and module vendors, research institutes, partner companies and portfolio-company engineering teams; negotiate statements of work, hold them to milestones and resolve conflicts.
• Judge the engineering. Chair design reviews, read test and trial reports, challenge link budgets and architecture choices, and decide when something is good enough to proceed.
• Run the trials. Plan and execute lab tests, field trials and customer demonstrations – including in contested-spectrum and EW-stressed conditions – and turn the results into successful customer decisions.
• Support the deal team. Contribute the radio-domain view to technical diligence of acquisition targets and partnerships: what they have built, how well it works and what it would take to finish.
• Bridge to the portfolio. Take programme outcomes into the companies we own – a product to industrialise, a technology to integrate, a process to fix – and work with their teams and our Forward Deployed Operators to make it stick.
• Keep it compliant. Manage spectrum approvals, export control, security classification and customer qualification requirements on your programmes.
• Feed the strategy. Bring what you learn on the programme – technology, suppliers, customers, competitors – to shape what Onodrim invests in next.

Skills

Radio communications

Programme management

Budget management

Vendor management

English communication

Risk management

Education

Electrical/Communications engineering degree

Job description

Onodrim Industries is seeking a Programme Manager for Radio Communications and EW to run multi-year programmes from scope to acceptance. You’ll own budgets, schedules, risks and supplier relations while guiding engineering teams and partners across Europe.

You’ll bring 5+ years in radio communications, hands-on engineering, and a proven track record in running programmes with real ownership. Travel across Europe is required, and security clearance eligibility is expected.