Students, professors, PhD students, and postdocs use the Chemical Engineering Department’s laboratories for education and research. As a technician and lab manager in the Catalysis Engineering Section, you ensure a safe and reliable operation of a lab focused on developing and demonstrating new catalytic solutions for energy transition and sustainability.

This requires an innovative mindset as our lab is at the forefront of developing novel heterogeneous catalysts and catalytic processes aimed at reducing energy use and minimizing negative impacts on the environment and human health. We use a multi-disciplinary approach that combines materials science, reaction engineering, and in situ/operando methods to thoroughly understand the active sites and transformation pathways involved in catalysis.

Your main responsibilities include setting up, managing, and maintaining specialized equipment crucial for our research. You’ll actively contribute to developing and implementing new research methods and catalytic technologies. As lab manager you coordinate a healthy and dynamic environment in the lab, promoting collaboration between the scientific and technical staff within the section and beyond. It’s crucial to ensure all equipment operates safely and reliably, as a technical expert you're skilled in troubleshooting and resolving malfunctions, either on your own or with maintenance specialists and colleagues.

You’ll instruct users on safe equipment operation and assist in educational labs, providing technical support and advice for specific research and educational projects. Your expertise in materials characterization, chemical engineering, and equipment operation is vital to our success.

In the Chemical Engineering Department, you’ll be part of a team of twenty enthusiastic lab technicians. Each member is responsible for their own lab but collaboration is key. Our team is diverse, with members from various nationalities, and we highly value your ideas and input.

• You have at least a bachelor/HBO-degree in chemical technology, chemical engineering, physical chemistry, or another relevant field.
• You have experience with reactor systems and spectroscopic characterization techniques.
• You have an affinity with lab automation and using code to save time, improve safety and ensure reliability of the research data.
• You enjoy building new equipment and learning new methods!
• You’re energized by sharing your knowledge and able to communicate clearly with students, faculty, professors, and direct colleagues.
• You have a keen eye for safety, as chemical research carries inherent risks.
• You are proactive in initiating improvements in research and education within your lab.
• You are proficient in English. If you do not already speak Dutch, you are willing to learn the language.

Fixed-term contract: 1 jaar met uitzicht op vast.

• As a technician, you will receive a salary according to scale 9 of the collective labour agreement (CAO) for Dutch Universities, with a minimum of €3377 and a maximum of €4640 gross per month based on a fulltime contract (38 hours), plus 8% holiday allowance and an end-of-year bonus of 8.3%. We also have opportunities for entry-level technicians (scale 8), where we invest extra in training and guidance. In addition, it is possible to advance or start in a senior position involving more complex reactor design and coordinating tasks (scale 10, up to a monthly gross salary of €5090).
• A position for 32 to 40 hours a week.
• An excellent pension scheme via the ABP.
• The possibility to compile an individual employment package every year.
• Discount with health insurers.
• Flexible working week.
• Every year, 232 leave hours (at 38 hours). You can also sell or buy additional leave hours via the individual choice budget.
• Plenty of opportunities for education, training and courses.
• Partially paid parental leave
• Attention for working healthy and energetically with the vitality program.

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 as one of our core values and we actively engage to be a university where you feel at home and can flourish. We value different perspectives and qualities. We believe this makes our work more innovative, the TU Delft community more vibrant and the world more just. Together, we imagine, invent and create solutions using technology to have a positive impact on a global scale. That is why we invite you to apply. Your application will receive fair consideration.

Challenge. Change. Impact!

Faculty

With more than 1,100 employees, including 150 pioneering principal investigators, as well as a population of about 3,600 passionate students, the Faculty of Applied Sciences is an inspiring scientific ecosystem. Focusing on key enabling technologies, such as quantum- and nanotechnology, photonics, biotechnology, synthetic biology and materials for energy storage and conversion, our faculty aims to provide solutions to important problems of the 21st century. To that end, we educate innovative students in broad Bachelor's and specialist Master's programmes with a strong research component. Our scientists conduct ground-breaking fundamental and applied research in the fields of Life and Health Science & Technology, Nanoscience, Chemical Engineering, Radiation Science & Technology, and Engineering Physics. We are also training the next generation of high school teachers.

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The Department of Chemical Engineering (www.cheme.tudelft.nl), as part of the Faculty of Applied Sciences, conducts both fundamental and applied research focused on chemical technology innovations. Additionally, the department provides education in the BSc and MSc programs in Molecular Science & Technology and Chemical Engineering, as well as the PDEng programs in Chemical Engineering. The department comprises approximately 300 staff members: professors, (senior) lecturers, postdocs, PhD candidates, and students, supported by technical and administrative personnel.