Senior Flying Squad Coordinator HKO

Position: Senior Flying Squad Coordinator – 260825-HKO-001
For Candidates Who Wish to Apply
The client faces a major challenge: sustainably managing hundreds of assets amid rapid aging infrastructure, a shortage of technical personnel, and increasing use of the infrastructure network. A fundamental shift in how this infrastructure is managed is required to keep the Netherlands accessible and safe from flooding.

Data-Driven Asset Management (DGAM) is a key driver of this transformation. By using accurate, real-time data from sensors and control systems, and presenting this through smart algorithms on dashboards, faults can be identified earlier and maintenance can be better planned and executed more efficiently.

The client has developed a "4-phase plan" to shape this transition toward more data-driven asset management, with the goal of applying DGAM to 80–90% of movable bridges, locks, tunnels, and pumping stations by the end of 2028. Achieving this is a joint effort between the client and market parties responsible for maintaining national infrastructure, formalized through a cooperation agreement (SOK) establishing a joint execution organization.

As Flying Squad Coordinator, the successful candidate will play a key role in this transition by supporting regional asset teams with the implementation of the DGAM 4-phase plan, contributing to a safe, livable, and accessible Netherlands.

Key Details

Location:

Utrecht / Nationwide, the Netherlands

Hours per week:  32

Intended period:  ASAP – September 30, 2027

Final date to receive applications:  September 1, 2026, 10:00

Required level of education:  HBO/ Bachelors degree

Self-employed candidates:  Not permitted

Option to extend:  Yes

Field of expertise:  Mechanical Engineering / Electrical Engineering / Industrial Automation, Water, Analysis, Infra / Roads

CLA:  CAO Rijk, Salary Scale 13

The Role
As Flying Squad Coordinator, the candidate will be responsible for the organizational direction of a "flying squad" — a multidisciplinary team that works temporarily, in batches, alongside regional asset teams (the client, PPO, and contractors) to execute the 4-phase plan and successfully implement DGAM on a given asset.

The coordinator ensures planning, drafting of approach plans, establishing necessary working relationships, organizing meetings, documenting results, and aligning with the national programme team. The role also involves substantive contribution — bringing asset management and maintenance engineering expertise, and acting as a sparring partner for flying squad members.

The coordinator is responsible for delivering essential outputs within the 4-phase plan, leveraging existing knowledge and capacity within the asset teams, and serving as a connector between operational execution and strategic goals. The coordinator monitors progress, identifies bottlenecks, and helps resolve them, while also helping to build enthusiasm within teams for data-driven working and ensuring that previously gained knowledge is shared and applied.

What makes this role rewarding:

Guiding teams through change and innovation using data and information

Connecting people and establishing collaboration between the client and market parties

Visibly improving asset management through the use of data

Working in a complex environment where people, organization, and technology intersect, and improving this within an asset management context

Key Responsibilities & Deliverables
As part of implementing data-driven asset management, the Flying Squad Coordinator will:

Coordinate the deployment of flying squad members to realize the steps of the 4-phase plan

Draft planning schedules, approach plans, and documentation of results

Contribute asset management and maintenance engineering expertise toward realizing the steps of the 4-phase plan

Define and document the (standard) information and data requirements of stakeholders across the asset management chain to enable data-driven asset management

Supervisory Structure:
The Flying Squad Coordinator works alongside the technical team within the DGAM programme and reports progress to the technical manager. In consultation with client staff and contractors involved with a given asset, the coordinator independently drives…