Programme Manager - Radar and Fire-Control Systems

About the role

Onodrim builds Europe's largest defence and industrial platform by acquiring specialist manufacturers and investing behind their growth. The Programme Manager for Radar Systems runs the programmes that deliver radar and sensing capability, from scope to acceptance. You will be assigned to specific programmes such as an active-protection or counter-UAS sensor, a joint development with a research institute, a customer trial or a technology integration at a portfolio company, and you will run them yourself.

Key responsibilities

• Own scope, plan, budget, risk register and schedule for each programme, report status weekly in numbers and escalate early
• Turn customer needs or threats into concepts of operations, system requirements and acceptance criteria
• Coordinate suppliers, vendors, research institutes and engineering teams, negotiate statements of work and hold them to milestones
• Chair design reviews, read test and trials data and judge whether a sensor is ready to proceed
• Plan and run lab tests, range trials and customer demonstrations against drones, projectiles and ground targets
• Contribute the radar domain view to technical diligence of acquisitions and partnerships
• Take programme outcomes into the portfolio companies and work with Forward Deployed Operators
• Manage spectrum and test-range approvals, export control, security classification and customer qualification
• Share lessons learned with the Head of RF Systems

Required profile

• Degree in electrical engineering, physics or a closely related discipline
• 5+ years in radar or RF sensing, including at least 3 years hands-on as an engineer before moving into programme or product responsibility
• At least 2 years running programmes with real ownership of budget, schedule, suppliers and a customer
• Right to work in Switzerland or the EU, and eligibility for a national security clearance in at least one operating country
• Extensive travel across Europe, including partner sites, test ranges and portfolio companies

Required skills

• Modern radar: phased-array and MIMO architectures, waveform design, detection and tracking, clutter and interference
• Range trials or operational testing of sensors, ideally against small drones, projectiles or ground targets with military users
• Managing external engineering partners and holding them to commitments
• Nice to have: military service in air-defence, artillery, EW or surveillance, counter-UAS or active-protection experience, commercial radar silicon, sensor fusion, export control exposure and start-up experience