The Team Manager ensures that AeroDelft remains a cohesive and well-functioning organisation. You safeguard the long-term direction of the team while maintaining a healthy, high-performing culture. As spokesperson, you represent AeroDelft externally and ensure that internal alignment and external credibility go hand in hand.

You safeguard AeroDelft’s long-term direction and ensure alignment across departments. You oversee team wellbeing and development, guide Chiefs and Managers in their leadership, and maintain clarity in decision-making and organisational boundaries. At the same time, you act as AeroDelft’s primary spokesperson towards partners, media, and other external stakeholders.

You demonstrate strong judgement and emotional awareness, and you are clear in setting, communicating, and protecting boundaries. You are a confident and credible spokesperson who combines strategic thinking with a people-focused mindset. In complex situations, you remain calm and decisive.

The Project Manager ensures that AeroDelft’s engineering ambitions translate into structured and steady progress. You create focus, define priorities, and maintain clarity across departments so that technical effort results in tangible advancement.

You define and maintain the overall engineering planning, translating long-term goals into clear short-term priorities. You monitor progress across departments, identify and address bottlenecks, and allocate resources where they create the greatest impact. Together with the Chiefs and the Lead Engineer, you ensure that progress and quality remain balanced.

You are naturally structured and organised, with an open and solution-oriented mindset. You communicate clearly, think critically, and remain comfortable maintaining overview even under pressure.

The Lead Engineer safeguards the technical integrity and quality of AeroDelft’s aircraft. You ensure that systems function coherently, that engineering decisions are well-founded, and that qualification readiness remains central throughout development.

You oversee system interfaces across departments and supervise the overall systems engineering and qualification strategy. You safeguard technical standards and documentation quality, monitor design trade-offs, and support Chiefs in complex engineering decisions to ensure technical consistency across the aircraft.

You are technically adept and capable of thinking beyond textbook solutions. You are decisive under pressure, motivate others through your presence, and remain focused on delivering high-quality work while maintaining both depth and overall perspective.