The department Finance, Planning & Control (FP&C) handles the financial administration, purchases and the planning and control of the organisation. The department includes the employees of Finance, Purchasing and Planning Control.
Finance staff take care of the complete financial administration of ASTRON. This includes budgets and financial statements. They also give advise about financial issues. Besides they perform services for other institutes.
The employees of purchasing handle our orders. In addition, they have an advisory and supporting role in quotation processes and (European) tenders.
Planning and Control support project managers in the field of the program / project management. They do this by offering, implementing, maintaining and, if necessary or required, the improvement of the processes that are necessary for this purpose. These include the project budgets, funding requirements and accounting, project accounting and project reporting.
❮ BackWe are continuously developing new, cutting-edge instruments for radio astronomy and are working on major upgrades of our current telescopes. As a Systems Engineer, you will oversee the instrument development process.
For our ongoing Science Data Centre (SDC) development, we are seeking a software engineer to strengthen Team Rainbow, one of our highly esteemed scrum teams. At the SDC, we strive to maximize the scientific impact of our world-leading instrumentation portfolio.
For the continuous development of our LOFAR telescope, we are looking for a software engineer to strengthen one of our SCRUM teams.
Bell Burnell Fellow will represent and reflect all of ASTRON’s foundational values as it continues its 75 year leadership in radio astronomy discovery and innovation. The fellowship provides an outstanding opportunity for a scientist to pursue innovative research and development in an institute that spans the entire spectrum of radio astronomy expertise – from development, to operation, to science frontiers.