Funded Project Manager (Compute Architectures/Semiconductor)

Funded Project Manager (Compute Architectures/Semiconductor)

Initial 6 month freelance contract + option to extend

Hybrid - Leuven, Belgium (2-3 days in the office per week)

Our client provides the flexibility to work both from their office premises and remotely from home. This to maintain a healthy work-life balance while being an integral part of the team.

For the sector Connected Compute

The assignment
Your work is at the cross-roads of advanced R&D, project execution and partner interface with a special focus on public funded projects (EU). You will be responsible to coordinate large consortia for projects focusing on silicon technology development in a variety of subjects such as Novel Compute Architectures, Scale out System Simulation Platforms, etc. leveraging our client's core expertise on advanced semiconductor research. You will be responsible for multiple projects as the coordinator of our client's owned tasks and in certain cases you will act as the work package leader or consortium coordinator. You will be our primary representative in consortia (which could include universities, research institutes and industry partners) and you will also interface with the our technical managers to ensure proper execution of the projects with respect to content, budget and timeline. You will also interface with our client's partners to help the execution of the transversal projects.

In this job, your main tasks will be:

• As project coordinator, you will be responsible to establish the schedule of meetings with the consortium and with the reviewers, you will ensure that each project partner is progressing towards the deliverables and milestones plan, and you will be the primary project interface with the public entity representative (project officer).
• You will ensure the proper completion of deliverables by maintaining a clear list of the deliverable owners and timeline according to the project work description and schedule. This will be achieved in agreement with the technical managers.
• You will coordinate the participation of our client's experts to project meetings and the proper execution of the related tasks, leveraging your technical and management skills.
• You will ensure that participation of staff in the projects is appropriately booked in our client's time monitoring system and accurately reported for every project.
• You will ensure that all costs, consumables, and wafer fabrication, are correctly booked in our client's system for every project.
• You will interface with the financial department to review financial reports and defend the report within the consortium and towards the project officer.
• You will report internally the progress towards the project objectives to the project office and senior management, with respect to success criteria, timeline and budget. You will escalate what you cannot resolve with your peers. In case the project timeline, content, or budget cannot be met, you will negotiate changes within the consortium.

Required knowledge and skills

• You master and you are enthused by all aspects of managing consortium-based technical projects with many partners.
• Familiar with the chip design process
• Familiar with compute architectures such as CPU, GPU, RISC-5
• MSc in electrical engineering, physics, material science is preferred. PhD or relevant industry experience is a plus
• At least 3 years of working experience in the semiconductor business are desired.
• A project management certification such as PMI or Prince2 is a plus