Wanted: Project Manager

Resource description

Location: Brussels (or elsewhere in Europe, if preferred by the candidate, to be negotiated)

Duration: permanent employment (or fixed-term, if preferred by the candidate)

Start date: between 01/01/2026 and 30/04/2026

Working hours: full-time

Contact & application: sebastien.lepy@cresym.eu

 

In a nutshell

Within the CRESYM Association (Collaborative Research for Energy SYstem Modelling), a Project Manager will have three main missions:

  • Manage one of the Association’s “workstreams”;
  • Coordinate research projects;
  • Support the Association’s cross-cutting activities

As every employee, a Project Manager shall comply with CRESYM’s By-Laws, Internal Rules and every rule set forth for CRESYM’s staff. They will report to the General Manager.

… and with more details

Responsibility of one or more Association’s expert/thematic field(s)

Coordinated by the Scientific Advisor, the Project Manager will be in charge of one or two of the Association’s expert fields (e.g. power, gas, distribution networks, multi-energy, machine-learning, etc.) or cross-activity (e.g. COLib):

  • Identify, regarding the field topic, all “industrial needs” among Members, i.e. industrial operators’ concerns regarding digitalisation, automation, decarbonation, decentralisation, cybersecurity, etc. of energy systems;
  • Collect and update, with the academic members, the state of the art regarding the field topic;
  • Organise workshops to share the updated knowledge and identify project opportunities;
  • Initiate and monitor progress of every project related to the field.

Project Coordination

For every project they would be assigned to, the Project Manager will:

In the initiation phase,

  • support the interested Members to assess the opportunity of a new project, gather industrial needs (use cases) and supporting literature, clarify goals and methods and draft the Project description; and
  • once the project description is approved by the Projects Committee, liaise with the would-be Participants, identify the required skills, devise and set up the project Workplan (deliverables, tasks, schedule, budget), fostering consensus and engagement.

In the implementation phase (once the Project Agreement is signed):

  • depending on its own workload and assignment in the project, act as, or support, the Project Leader;
  • prepare the Project Management Board and Project Supervisory Board meetings;
  • implement their decisions as far as the project management is concerned, and especially update the Workplan and phased budget;
  • contribute to the successful implementation of the project tasks, coordinating and animating the project team, controlling the budget, validating the outputs and checking their adequacy with the project expectations, reporting to the Projects Committee.

At project end:

  • validate the project’s scientific publications (or have them validated by the relevant experts);
  • check the smooth takeover of the deliverables (Assets), their easy accessibility and dissemination.

Support to corporate activities

The Project Manager will contribute to:

  • the Association’s scientific watch, coordinated by the Scientific Advisors;
  • the setup and population of COLib, coordinated by the IT Asset & Project Manager;
  • the promotion and maintenance of open-source Assets (project results or others);
  • the organisation of Association’s events.

The Project Manager will participate, when appropriate, in external conferences, events, meetings with Members and other Association’s Partners.

Your profile

Our Project Manager should:

  • be excited about new technologies and interested in contributing to fostering R&D for energy systems;
  • have a suitable technical or university degree (e.g. in the field of computer science) or else a comparable qualification through professional training;
  • like to work in a team as well as autonomously;
  • have strong written and spoken English skills;

Past experience with an energy operator is a plus.

About us

CRESYM is a three-year-old, less-than-10 employee non-profit organisation.

We are devoted to speeding up the energy transition and securing future energy system operation by

  • bridging industry & academia together (our Members);
  • catalysing the set up, and running R&D projects with open-source outcomes (our Projects);
  • promoting R&D results and/or organising their industrialisation (our Assets);
  • helping skilled engineers/scientists and energy operators to connect (our DoNets);

Our employees enjoy a motivating and innovative environment with varied work areas, that they can actively help to shape, and flexible HR procedures to promote a good work-life balance.

We are committed to protecting privacy and promoting diversity & gender equality.