Technical Workforce Development Coordination Manager

The semiconductor technology industry is facing a critical shortage of skilled workers, which threatens its competitiveness and innovation potential. imec, as the world-leading research and innovation hub in nanoelectronics and digital technologies, offers a wide range of workforce development actions to support the industry in tackling this skill shortage challenge. Imec’s current offering includes expert level courses for R&D engineers, internships, PhD and postdoctoral research programs, MOOCs, apprenticeships for technicians, etc.

As a Technical WorkForce Development Coordination Manager, your main tasks will be:

• To develop the strategy and coordinate the technical training program offering for R&D engineers and technicians of imec and its industrial partners in cooperation with the imec researchers, portfolio managers, sales team, imec academy, and IP & export compliance.
• To lead negotiations with imec partners on imec’s workforce development offering.
• To support the smart education program manager for defining and evaluating imec’s life-long learning research making on-the-job training in highly automated manufacturing environments scalable.
• To develop the strategy and coordinate the train-the-trainer package for academic master and for professional bachelor higher education programs.
• To choose content delivery formats for technical training that combine best experience for trainees with scalability of the offering.
• To guarantee the quality of imec’s workforce development offering.
• To act as the central point of contact for imec’s external workforce development offering to internal and external stakeholders, including imec’s industrial partners, public authorities, academic faculty, and university and community college presidencies in Belgium, Europe, the Americas and APAC.
• To represent imec on all public events where imec’s workforce development program is highlighted.
• You will report to the Corporate Strategy Officer (CSO).

What we do for you

We offer you the opportunity to join one of the world’s premier research centers in nanotechnology at its headquarters in Leuven, Belgium. With your talent, passion and expertise, you’ll become part of a team that makes the impossible possible. Together, we shape the technology that will determine the society of tomorrow.

We are committed to being an inclusive employer and proud of our open, multicultural, and informal working environment with ample possibilities to take initiative and show responsibility. We commit to supporting and guiding you in this process; not only with words but also with tangible actions. Through imec.academy, ’our corporate university’, we actively invest in your development to further your technical and personal growth.

We are aware that your valuable contribution makes imec a top player in its field. Your energy and commitment are therefore appreciated by means of a market appropriate salary with many fringe benefits.

Who you are

We are looking for a highly motivated person with the following assets:

• An engineering background in the field of electronics and its applications in health and industry.
• A pedagogical background that allows you to comprehend customer’s training needs, produce relevant training packages, and evaluate their delivery quality.
• A passion for talent development in an advanced technological environment.
• A team player mindset. You are diplomatic and capable of readily communicating with industrial customers, upper management, scientists, R&D engineers, technicians, and academic faculty.
• A proactive approach and a “get things done” attitude.
• A desire to keep yourself informed of the latest evolution of techniques and technologies in broad, allowing you to easily communicate with scientists.
• A thorough understanding of training delivery formats.
• Knowledge of AI-based tools to re-format or re-purpose content, to generate tests, and to answer questions is an asset.
• A straight-forward and solution-oriented approach that inspire s colleagues to submit high-quality and timely feedback.
• An ability to give constructive feedback that helps trainers to go the extra mile to deliver top quality.
• Fluency in English
• An active knowledge of Dutch and other languages like French, German or Spanish is an asset.

IMEC and its affiliates will not accept unsolicited resumes from any source other than directly from a candidate. IMEC will consider unsolicited referrals and/or resumes submitted by vendors such as search firms, staffing agencies, professional recruiters, fee-based referral services and recruiting agencies (hereafter “Agency”) to have been referred by the Agency free of charge. IMEC will not pay a fee to any Agency that does not have a prior written agreement with IMEC, validated by its HR department, in place regarding a specific job opening and allowing to submit resumes.