Technical (Project) Manager

As a Technical Manager, you are responsible for the technical part of the project. You will be representing the technical team, while being a part of the management team. As a result, you are involved with everyone on the team. This makes it a very diverse role.

Through facilitating the technical team, it is your task to make sure the car is reliable and finished on time. This includes making the planning, overseeing the technical expenses and being in contact with our technical partners. 

A great part of this function's challenge is to keep an overview of everything that’s going on and adapting to it. Constantly, new factors are popping up which have an impact on the planning. It is a puzzle to adjust to these factors in such a way that the optimal result can still be achieved.


The experience of Victoria

My name is Victoria Verhulst and I have been the Technical Manager of edition 2025 of Solar Team Twente. The idea to join this team came up when I had just finished my bachelors program University College Twente. I was not sure what Masters I wanted to do, but was very excited to bring the knowledge I had learned during my Bachelors into practice.

When looking at the possible functions, the function of Technical Manager immediately stood out to me. I was fascinated by the idea of being a bridge between the technical team and the management team. This meant I would be closely involved with the building of the solar car, as well as dealing with more general challenges we encountered as a team.

We started off with a great challenge, since our race was moved to two months earlier. This meant that we had to innovate with new ways of working to be even more efficient. I have been amazed by our team’s motivation and resilience to make it possible. We came up with creative ways to win time, such as testing with two solar cars at the same time.