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In this role, you will lead projects for the development and integration of sensing systems, create requirements, manage partners, and coordinate tests in realistic conditions for military applications.
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Your role in the team
- Onodrim is building Europe’s largest defence and industrial platform. We acquire specialist manufacturers in critical defence and dual-use supply chains, then invest in their growth with capital, technology and operational expertise.
- Sensing is one of the areas where our R&D unit is building real depth—systems that detect, classify, and locate activity from physical signals, and the companies and partners that make them. Today, that mostly means mechanical waveforms: acoustic, seismic, and vibration sensing for perimeter, border, and battlefield awareness. We don’t intend to stop there; the modalities will follow the problems our customers and portfolio companies bring us.
- The Programme Manager for Sensing owns the execution of a specific engagement in that domain—typically a joint development or integration project with a partner company, research institute, or one of the manufacturers we acquire—from the agreed scope through to the accepted result. You’ll be assigned to one engagement at a time, and it will be yours: the plan, milestones, budget, partner relationship, trials, and hand-off.
- This is a role for an engineer who has moved into running things. You'll need enough sensing depth to judge a design review, read a trials report and tell a partner's schedule from their hope, and enough programme discipline to keep budget, timeline, partners and users fully aligned when all four are moving. You'll spend time in the field and at partner sites, not only in meetings.
- Run the engagement. Own scope, plan, budget, risk register and schedule for the engagement you're assigned; report status weekly in numbers, escalate 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 (what to detect, at what range, in what environment, with what false-alarm rate, at what cost and power budget) 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: statements of work, milestones, data sharing, IP and commercial terms in coordination with our deal and legal teams; resolve conflicts before they stall the work.
- 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, weather and background-noise conditions, and turn the results into successful decisions.
- 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: what they have built, how well it detects, and what it would take to finish and industrialise.
- Plan the hand-off. Design the engagement so its outputs can be industrialised and owned by a manufacturer in the portfolio - documentation, bill of materials, test and qualification - and work with their teams and our Forward Deployed Operators to make it stick.
- Keep it compliant. Manage test-site approvals, data handling, export control and security classification on your engagement.
- Feed the strategy. Bring what you learn—about technology, partners, users, and competitors—back to the Head of Research & Development to shape what we take on next.
Our expectations of you
Education
- A degree in electrical or mechanical engineering, physics, geophysics, acoustics, digital signal processing, or a closely related discipline.
Qualifications
- 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.
- Comfort managing external engineering partners—companies, institutes, and subcontractors—and holding them to their commitments.
- Structured, numbers-driven working style: risk registers, test plans and status reports that someone can act on.
- Clear, direct communication in English, both 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.
Experience
- 5+ years in sensing or sensor systems, including at least 3 years of hands-on engineering experience in sensor hardware, signal processing, data acquisition, systems, or testing 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.
- 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.
What we offer
- We operate our business in English; knowledge of a European language other than English is beneficial.
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About your employer
Onodrim Industries B.V. is an advanced company based in Amsterdam that specializes in creating a platform for the European defense and industrial sector. The company provides support for critical businesses and supply chains through capital, technology, and operational and sales expertise. Onodrim Industries focuses on mission-critical solutions in defense manufacturing and industrial production.
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