TU/e - Mimir

HR Advisor

Introduction
Step into the heart of innovation at TU/e and join a caring community where people matter. Become an HR Advisor at TU/e!
Are you a hands-on HR professional who thrives in a dynamic academic environment? We are looking for a proactive and service-oriented HR Advisor to strengthen the HR teams of the department of Chemical Engineering & Chemistry (CE&C).

You enjoy taking up a variety of HR tasks, keeping an overview with the help of HR data and aligning your work with the needs of the faculties. You’ll work closely with department leadership and HR Services to ensure seamless HR operations and contribute to a positive work culture. We value your humor, we work hard but we also have fun working together. Bring your expertise, empathy, and energy—and help shape the future of TU/e!

Job Description
In this all-round position, you deal with all aspects of the HR field. About you:

You thrive on finding ways to support managers with their people management tasks, whose main focus is on research and education and not on management.
You enjoy building a relationship with our (academic) managers where you develop from HR advisor to trusted HR (business) partner. You support the manager, where possible supported by HR data, in keeping an overview and understanding the business needs. Your unsolicited advice is heard and taken seriously.
You understand HR is a balance act between the advisory role and an operational role when you ensure the processes are correctly set up. You acknowledge the importance of performing your administrative tasks correctly and on time. TU/e works with AFAS Insite.
You really want to know the department you work for, inside and out. This knowledge enables you to advise colleagues of HRM policy or development on trends or recurring issues surpassing an individual department.
You balance the business approach with a warm understanding of people. Enabling you to coach management and employees in a respectful way, contributing to a smoothly running team or de-escalating complex cases.
You can keep your focus, decide what to prioritize and what not, keep an overview of what needs to be done, why, when and how.
You are a colleague that contributes to the success of our HR team. By sharing ideas and contributing to university-wide projects.
You have a positive mindset and like to contribute to a good atmosphere.

About your colleagues
The HRM service department consists of approximately 120 enthusiastic colleagues. You are part of a team of 25 HR Advisors and regularly meet and exchange ideas and best practices. You also work closely with the HRM colleagues of services, recruitment, policy, development and other experts. You are seconded to the department where you work closely with your colleague HR advisor and colleagues of HR Services.

You are also part of an international, diverse and collaborative community and work closely with top-tier scientists and innovators within the department.

The Chemical Engineering and Chemistry (CE&C) department delivers high-quality education and research in chemical engineering and chemistry, aiming to tackle complex societal challenges and advance fundamental science and technological innovation.

Currently, the department is undergoing a transformation. In close collaboration with staff, a new vision has been developed to guide our future:

Our higher purpose: Chemistry for a better world
Our core values: Passion, compassion & excellence
Our bold ambition: To be ranked number 1 in education, research, and societal impact by 2040
Our key strengths: Innovation and collaboration at a world-class level

In this dynamic setting, HR plays a vital role in supporting the department’s growth and resilience. Together with department leadership and staff, we focus on topics such as leadership development, onboarding, and the annual dialogue. We continuously strive to improve HR processes and to foster a future-proof organizational culture.
In the department we work in a team with 4 HR colleagues (HR advice and HR services).

As an HR advisor at CE&C you have a unique opportunity to drive meaningful change and contribute to an inspiring and forward-looking work environment.

Job Requirements

You have a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in HRM or in another relevant field.
You have 3-5 years of HR work experience at advising level within a complex (and preferably similar) organization.
You have an excellent oral and written command of both the Dutch and English languages.
You have strong communication skills, are able to connect and adapt quickly and get to the heart of the matter easily, where possible with a sense of humor.
You can maintain overview and your style of working is people- and process-oriented.
You have a high degree of independence and flexibility.
You have a positive attitude and you like to think in terms of opportunities.
You are resilient and result-oriented.
You can make a contribution to continuous improvement of HRM and the HR advisory role within it.
You want to be part of- and contribute to the HRM-team and department-team.

Conditions of employment
An exciting position within an international yet personal university. You are right in the middle of the students, on a green campus within walking distance of the central station. Besides beautiful architecture, you will find varied workplaces and excellent sports facilities. We also offer you:

A contract for 32 hours a week.
An environment where you are encouraged to develop yourself in the field of HR.
A monthly salary of minimum € 3.546,- to maximum € 5.538,- for full-time employment, depending on your knowledge and experience (scale 10 collective labour agreement for Dutch Universities).
In addition to vacation pay, a structural end-of-year bonus of 8.3%.
A favorable arrangement for more holidays or a sabbatical.
A selection model for additional fringe benefits.
Scope for your talent with advancement prospects and excellent development opportunities such as mentoring, workshops and coaching.
Partially paid parental leave and reimbursement for commuting expenses, working from home and the internet.
A generous employer contribution to the favorable ABP pension plan.
And most important, you’ll be working within a team of incredibly nice, helpful, inspiring and motivated colleagues.

More information
About us
TU/e is a leading international university that educates engineers of the future and pushes the boundaries of science and technology for a better world. An international community of close to 7,000 employees and 13,000 students work and study on the vibrant and inspiring campus.

Do you recognize yourself in this profile and would you like to have more information about the position, please contact Rob van der Linden, Recruiter (r.m.e.v.d.linden@tue.nl).

Are you inspired and would like to know more about working at TU/e? Please visit our career page.

Application
If you are interested, please use the ‘apply’ button to send us your CV and letter of application with your motivation and a description of your qualifications.

Screening of candidates begins as soon as applications are received and continues until the position is filled. Where applicable, internal candidates will be given priority over external candidates where they are equally suitable. Selection interviews will take place (ideally) between 6th and 25th of November.

We look forward to receiving your application!

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HR Advisor

In this all-round position, you deal with all aspects of the HR field. About you:

You thrive on finding ways to support managers with their people management tasks, whose main focus is on research and education and not on management.
You enjoy building a relationship with our (academic) managers where you develop from HR advisor to trusted HR (business) partner. You support the manager, where possible supported by HR data, in keeping an overview and understanding the business needs. Your unsolicited advice is heard and taken seriously.
You understand HR is a balance act between the advisory role and an operational role when you ensure the processes are correctly set up. You acknowledge the importance of performing your administrative tasks correctly and on time. TU/e works with AFAS Insite.
You really want to know the department you work for, inside and out. This knowledge enables you to advise colleagues of HRM policy or development on trends or recurring issues surpassing an individual department.
You balance the business approach with a warm understanding of people. Enabling you to coach management and employees in a respectful way, contributing to a smoothly running team or de-escalating complex cases.
You can keep your focus, decide what to prioritize and what not, keep an overview of what needs to be done, why, when and how.
You are a colleague that contributes to the success of our HR team. By sharing ideas and contributing to university-wide projects.
You have a positive mindset and like to contribute to a good atmosphere.

About your colleagues
The HRM service department consists of approximately 120 enthusiastic colleagues. You are part of a team of 25 HR Advisors and regularly meet and exchange ideas and best practices. You also work closely with the HRM colleagues of services, recruitment, policy, development and other experts. You are seconded to the department where you work closely with your colleague HR advisor and colleagues of HR Services.

You are also part of an international, diverse and collaborative community and work closely with top-tier scientists and innovators within the department.

The Chemical Engineering and Chemistry (CE&C) department delivers high-quality education and research in chemical engineering and chemistry, aiming to tackle complex societal challenges and advance fundamental science and technological innovation.

Currently, the department is undergoing a transformation. In close collaboration with staff, a new vision has been developed to guide our future:

Our higher purpose: Chemistry for a better world
Our core values: Passion, compassion & excellence
Our bold ambition: To be ranked number 1 in education, research, and societal impact by 2040
Our key strengths: Innovation and collaboration at a world-class level

In this dynamic setting, HR plays a vital role in supporting the department’s growth and resilience. Together with department leadership and staff, we focus on topics such as leadership development, onboarding, and the annual dialogue. We continuously strive to improve HR processes and to foster a future-proof organizational culture.
In the department we work in a team with 4 HR colleagues (HR advice and HR services).

As an HR advisor at CE&C you have a unique opportunity to drive meaningful change and contribute to an inspiring and forward-looking work environment.

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Postdoc on Balancing (trans-) disciplinary competencies in responsible engineering curricula

Short introduction
Are you passionate about education and addressing societal challenges? We are offering an exciting postdoc position focused on balancing disciplinary and transdisciplinary competencies in engineering curricula. This is a unique opportunity to combine research with impact by shaping future curricula.

Job Description
Grand societal challenges require a shift in the rationale of engineering curricula from focusing on engineering challenges to addressing grand societal challenges. This shift involves moving from solely teaching disciplinary knowledge towards fostering transformative competencies, both disciplinary and transdisciplinary. However, there is a lack of knowledge on co-creating constructively aligned engineering curricula that balance and support the development of transformative competencies within the new rationale. TU/e received a NRO research grant for the future of higher education to study how to co-create content-wise open, yet time-bound engineering curricula that are constructively aligned, and balance and support the development of transformative competencies within the new rationale of addressing societal challenges.

This project will contribute to a change in rationale for engineering curricula from a focus on solving engineering challenges to addressing societal challenges. The project will deliver validated design principles and solutions for practice for co-creating content-wise open, yet time-bound constructively aligned engineering curricula within the new rationale. Since transformation of educational institutes is restricted by current systems and mentalities, we have chosen the time-bound scope to have realistic impact at the end of the project. Our research will deliver foundation for changing one or more engineering curricula within five years. To achieve this, two interlinked sub-projects are devised, conducted by one PhD candidate, and one Post doc.

As a PhD candidate and postdoctoral researcher, you will conduct educational design research, i.e. a development study aimed at designing evidence-based solutions for complex problems in educational practice. This approach allows for systemic analysis of the problem, iterative (re)design and evaluation of practice-oriented solutions, and the advancement of knowledge.

The first sub-project; a PhD track, focusses on the characteristics of transformative competencies to be achieved as learning outcomes, and pathways to identify that set, in co-creation with stakeholders. The second sub-project, a postdoc track, focusses on pedagogies or structures for guiding students in selecting competencies to be achieved as learning outcomes, through learning activities and assessment processes fitting these learning outcomes. Together, both researchers focus on aligning at curriculum level the learning outcomes, learning activities and assessment processes (i.e., Constructive Alignment) when the set of learning outcomes is non-predefined.

We aim to contribute a set of validated design principles and solutions for various target groups and thereby delivering the foundation for changing one or more engineering curricula within five years, spark discussion and initiate systemic changes in higher education more broadly.

You will present your research findings at international conferences and publish them in peer-reviewed scientific journals. Given the applied nature of this project, your insights will be implemented within the practical context of TU/e and shared through non-academic channels to reach a broader audience.

As a PhD candidate or Postdoctoral researcher, you will be embedded in TU/e innovation Space and the Sustainability Office at TU/e and actively contribute to the initiatives of both. A teaching component of 0,1fte is included in the role. Your teaching competencies can be developed by using the rich experience on Challenge-Based Learning at TU/e and within TU/e innovation Space. You can contribute to CBL or sustainability courses, together with the applicants where possible, and as such learn from experienced coaches, teachers and educational designers.

Both positions are part of an NRO project on the Future of Higher Education. The total project lasts 4,5 years, with 4,5 years for the PhD project and 3,6 years (44 months) for the postdoc project. The postdoctoral researcher will also take on project management related tasks for the project.

Job Requirements
We are looking for a motivated and curious candidate who meets the following criteria:

A PhD Degree, with a background in educational design research, with experience in higher education, preferably on curriculum level.
A research-oriented mindset and a passion for scientific inquiry.
Experience with engineering education and education innovation or innovation sciences/management.
Proven experience as a project manager of a scientific project is a pre
Solid methodological skills, with demonstrated experience in qualitative research.
Prior involvement in university-based or student-led sustainability initiatives is a strong advantage.
Ability to thrive in an interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research environment.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Good collaboration skills, able to work in a dynamic, interdisciplinary, and international team
Proficiency in English (C1 level), knowledge of Dutch is a plus.
Motivation to develop teaching competencies and mentor students.
A proactive, self-driven attitude with strong organizational and time management skills.

Conditions of Employment
A meaningful job in a dynamic and ambitious university, in an interdisciplinary setting and within an international network. You will work on a beautiful, green campus within walking distance of the central train station. In addition, we offer you:

Full-time employment for 2 years.
Salary in accordance with the Collective Labour Agreement for Dutch Universities, scale 10 (min. € 4,241 max. € 5,538).
A year-end bonus of 8.3% and annual vacation pay of 8%.
High-quality training programs on general skills, didactics and topics related to research and valorization.
An excellent technical infrastructure, on-campus children's day care and sports facilities.
Partially paid parental leave and an allowance for commuting, working from home and internet costs.
A TU/e Postdoc Association that helps you to build a stronger and broader academic and personal network, and offers tailored support, training and workshops.
A Staff Immigration Team is available for international candidates, as are a tax compensation scheme (the 30% facility) and a compensation for moving expenses.

About us
Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) is a leading international university of technology, where people are the heart and soul. With excellent research and education programs, we are an important hub in a world-class high-tech ecosystem. We contribute to progress in the technical sciences, to the development of socio-technical innovations, and as a result, to the sustainability and welfare in the region and beyond. We participate in collaborations with industry and civil society organizations, and we are the academic heart of the top technology region Brainport. Given the pressing societal challenges such as climate change, three objectives are fundamental to our vision for 2030: a sustainable world, the technological revolution, and the impact of technology on society. Taking this major responsibility of contributing to the achievement of Sustainable Development Goals implies the need to develop new knowledge, skills, and competencies and to rethink the ways we educate our future engineers. See also: TU/e Strategy 2030 and the TU/e education Vision.

NRO Project
The project is led by Prof.dr.ir.arch. Isabelle Reymen, General Manager of TU/e innovation Space and professor in the Innovation, Technology Entrepreneurship (ITEM) group, part of the Department of Industrial Engineering and Innovation Sciences, and by Prof.dr.ir Anna Wieczorek, Sustainability Ambassador that works in close connection with the Sustainability Office, and member of the Technology, Innovation & Society (TIS) group, also in the same Department of Industrial Engineering and Innovation Sciences. Daily supervision will be performed by Ana Valencia Cardona, working as educational developer in TU/e innovation Space.

TU/e innovation Spaceis a learning hub that facilitates inter- and transdisciplinary collaboration and learning of students with researchers and external parties for societal value creation and for developing responsible engineers and future change agents with a strong professional identity, and systems thinking capabilities. It enables students to combine learning and creating societal impact, via co-creation with researchers and outside parties in courses, student teams and early stage entrepreneurial projects. It facilitates, year after year, a safe learning environment with an experimentation and quick validation culture and a hands-on approach according to the slogan: “From dream to demo to impact”. Many education innovation projects are performed in TU/e innovation Space. A nice opportunity to get to know TU/e innovation Space is by visiting the Final event of the University of the Future on October 27, more information and registration: : https://www.tue.nl/en/our-university/calendar-and-events/27-10-2025-lets-get-together-to-create-impact

Sustainability Office is a central team dedicated to integrating sustainability in all domains of the University and beyond. We monitor and stimulate the transition to a sustainable University, advise our Executive Board, and connect all necessary stakeholders. A part of the Sustainability Office is the TU/e GO Green Office (GGO), a team of students committed to integrating Sustainability into the lives of all TU/e students. The Sustainability Office collaborates closely with prof.dr.ir. Anna J Wieczorek, TU/e Sustainability Ambassador and in partnership with various internal and external departments and organizations. By bringing science and implementation together, the Sustainability Office aims to speed up the execution of new and ongoing sustainability initiatives, based on latest scientific insights and real-life experience. A nice opportunity to get to know Sustainability Office is by vising the sustainability day on November 5th; more information and registration: https://www.tue.nl/en/our-university/about-the-university/sustainability/sustainability-day-tue.

Information
Do you recognize yourself in this profile and would you like to know more? Please contact the hiring manager Isabelle Reymen, Professor Design of Innovation Ecosystems and General Manager TU/e innovation Space, i.m.m.j.reymen@tue.nl.

Visit our website for more information about the application process or the conditions of employment. You can also contact J.vd Sande, HR Advisor, j.l.v.d.sande@tue.nl or +31 40 2474979.

Are you inspired and would like to know more about working at TU/e? Please visit our career page.

Application
We invite you to submit a complete application by using the apply button. The application should include a:

Cover Letter (max 1-page)
Outline your motivation for applying, your interest in the position, and how your background aligns with the project.
Curriculum Vitae (CV)
Include your academic and professional background, along with the names and contact details of max three referees.
Research Proposal (max 1 page)
Present your approach to the research topic, including initial ideas and potential methodologies.
Writing Sample
Submit a relevant academic work authored by you, such as published article, or your master or Ph.D. thesis.
Proof of English Proficiency
Provide recent results from an English language test, or other evidence demonstrating your English language skills.

Important dates

Application deadline: 15 November 2025
Early applications are strongly encouraged, as the position may be filled in before the deadline if a suitable candidate is identified.
Intended starting date: March - May 2026
Interviews: December 2nd and 3rd morning till 13.30h (first round) and December 10 morning till 13.30h (second round) 2025

Please, note that only complete applications submitted through the online system will be considered. Applications sent by e-mail will not be accepted.

We look forward to receiving your application and will screen it as soon as possible. The vacancy will remain open until the positions are filled.

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PhD on Balancing (trans-) disciplinary competencies in responsible engineering curricula

Introduction
Are you passionate about education and addressing societal challenges? We are offering an exciting PhD position focused on balancing disciplinary and transdisciplinary competencies in engineering curricula. This is a unique opportunity to combine research with impact by shaping future curricula.