Projectmanager Telescope Instrumentation

At ESO, diversity is one of our greatest strengths. Our Project Management Department brings together a highly international team of about 20 Project Managers from many different backgrounds, disciplines, and walks of life. Managers from the PMD are in charge of a wide variety of projects that expand and strengthen the scientific and operational capabilities of our observatories in Chile. Your role will be to lead the development and construction of either complete instruments or subsystems as part of ESO's programmes for astronomical instrumentation or technology development for the VLT and the ELT. These developments will enable scientists to answer key questions about the universe like understanding the nature of dark matter, or the study of Earthlike planets orbiting neighbouring stars. In a very real sense, you will contribute to answering key human questions like where do we come from, how did we get here and are we really alone. Our projects are usually developed in cooperation with a consortium of astronomical institutes and eventually industry but, depending on the nature of the project, internal development of subsystems is also undertaken inhouse. As a result, you

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