Designing reflection methods for academic education is not enough: it’s all about embedding those methods. Co-creation is key to ensuring that all the stakeholders, including students, university teachers, professors, educationalists and faculty support staff, embrace such methods. And in the Reflective Engineer programme’s team you will play a crucial role in co-creation, supporting the various phases of our design projects.

Based on the team manager’s idea inception you organise, plan and lead workshops, identifying the relevant stakeholders and applying methods to extract their underlying needs and challenges. You will also analyse and process the data, including feedback, obtained from those workshops, which serve as input for subsequent design phases. And if you have ideas for new teaching concepts, such as the application of gaming, we encourage you to share them. In fact, you may even evolve to designing methods yourself.

Although our currently four-strong team operates from 3mE, our work is geared to the university as a whole. There’s no one-size-fits-all solution for all our faculties, where focus and cultures differ widely. This means that you will adapt your approach to faculty-specific and even department-specific stakeholders. That’s how you secure the development of user-centric methods with which stakeholders feel comfortable and which they’ll embrace and adopt. As our 18 months’ programme is still in its start-up phase, you’ll be helping us optimise our design, co-creation and implementation processes. And to enable you to develop your own skills and role, we will give you all the support and training you need! 

• You hold a Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in Industrial Design, or in other relevant subjects embracing stakeholder management, user-centric design or the design of training programmes.
• You have a couple of years relevant work experience.
• You thrive on working in a pioneering environment, ‘building the bridge as you walk on it’.
• Knowing how to adapt to changing circumstances, you secure resounding team results.
• Your excellent communication skills and organisational sensitivity help you engage with and convince people from different backgrounds and with different ambitions.
• Your visualisation skills help you get your message across.
• Knowledge of reflection and experience in working in an educational environment would be a plus.
• You have a good command of English and preferably of Dutch as well.

Should you not tick all the boxes in terms of specific qualification and background, but you like this job and think you have other relevant experience, we are happy to receive your application as well.  

• A salary based on scale 10  of the collective agreement (cao) for Dutch Universities between € 2.846,-  and € 4.490,- gross per month (for fulltime position) plus an 8% holiday allowance and an 8.3% end-of-year bonus.
• An excellent pension scheme at ABP.
• The possibility to compile an individual employment package every year.
• Health insurance discounts.
• A flexible working week.
• 232 hours of annual leave (based on a 38-hour working week). Your individual choice budget allows you to buy additional hours, or sell surplus hours.
• An extensive education and training offering.
• Partially paid parental leave.
• Access to our Health Coach Programme stimulating healthy working and vitality.
• A host of fun activities  and attractive discounts on products and services.

Delft University of Technology

Delft University of Technology is built on strong foundations. As creators of the world-famous Dutch waterworks and pioneers in biotech, TU Delft is a top international university combining science, engineering and design. It delivers world class results in education, research and innovation to address challenges in the areas of energy, climate, mobility, health and digital society. For generations, our engineers have proven to be entrepreneurial problem-solvers, both in business and in a social context. At TU Delft we embrace diversity and aim to be as inclusive as possible (see our Code of Conduct). Together, we imagine, invent and create solutions using technology to have a positive impact on a global scale.

Challenge. Change. Impact! 

Faculty Mechanical, Maritime and Materials Engineering

The Faculty of 3mE carries out pioneering research, leading to new fundamental insights and challenging applications in the field of mechanical engineering. From large-scale energy storage, medical instruments, control technology and robotics to smart materials, nanoscale structures and autonomous ships. The foundations and results of this research are reflected in outstanding, contemporary education, inspiring students and PhD candidates to become socially engaged and responsible engineers and scientists. The faculty of 3mE is a dynamic and innovative faculty with an international scope and high-tech lab facilities. Research and education focus on the design, manufacture, application and modification of products, materials, processes and mechanical devices, contributing to the development and growth of a sustainable society, as well as prosperity and welfare.

Click here to go to the website of the Faculty of Mechanical, Maritime and Materials Engineering. Do you want to experience working at our faculty? This video will introduce you to some of our researchers and their work.