Lead Simulation Engineer (m/f/d)
Sl Rasch Gmbh
🇩🇪 Germany
On-site
Staff / Principal
7 months ago
- BIM
- GIS
7 months ago
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- Lead, mentor, and develop the Simulation Engineers and Crowd Modelling Experts, with a clear focus on building a capable, autonomous, and resilient team rather than reliance on individual contributors.
- Develop a deep understanding of each team member’s strengths, development areas, and capacity, and use this insight to allocate work effectively and support professional growth.
- Establish clear roles, responsibilities, and expectations within the simulation team, ensuring work is structured, ownership is clear, and delivery is predictable and robust.
- Provide regular technical guidance, structured reviews, and constructive feedback, ensuring that simulation outputs meet defined standards while progressively raising the technical maturity of the team.
- Actively develop future senior simulation leads by coaching team members in technical judgment, communication of results, and interdisciplinary collaboration.
- Contribute to recruitment, onboarding, and performance development, ensuring that new hires strengthen both the technical capability and cultural cohesion of the simulation discipline.
- Foster a culture of accountability, curiosity, and continuous improvement, where team members understand not onlyhow to run simulations, butwhy decisions are made andhow their work contributes to project and organizational outcomes.
- Define, maintain, and continuously improve simulation standards, methodologies, and best practices.
- Ensure consistency, quality, and technical excellence in all simulation models and outputs.
- Support the Head of Engineering in developing the long-term strategy for the simulation discipline.
- Lead the development and implementation of advanced simulation models for crowd dynamics, pedestrian behavior, and movement patterns.
- Oversee the use of simulation software (e.g. PEDFlow) to ensure realistic, reliable, and validated scenarios.
- Review and approve simulation assumptions, inputs, and methodologies used by the simulation team.
- Provide hands-on technical support for complex or high-risk simulation tasks.
- Supervise data collection, preprocessing, and analysis activities related to crowd movement and spatial behavior.
- Ensure appropriate validation of simulation models against real-world data.
- Interpret simulation results at a strategic level and translate findings into clear, actionable recommendations for projects and clients.
- Lead, mentor, and support Simulation Engineers and Crowd Modelling Experts, fostering technical growth and professional development.
- Allocate resources and assign simulation tasks based on project needs, complexity, and team capacity.
- Conduct technical reviews and provide structured feedback on simulation work.
- Contribute to recruitment, onboarding, and performance development of simulation team members.
- Act as the main point of contact for simulation-related topics towards project management, planning teams, and other engineering disciplines.
- Collaborate closely with architects, engineers, and stakeholders to ensure simulations align with project goals and design specifications.
- Participate in internal and external meetings, workshops, and presentations as the simulation subject-matter expert.
- Oversee the simulation of multiple crowd management scenarios, including normal operations, emergency situations, and evacuations.
- Review analyses identifying bottlenecks, safety risks, and inefficiencies, and guide the development of optimized solutions.
- Ensure sensitivity analyses are conducted where required to assess the impact of design changes or external factors.
- Guide the customization and extension of simulation tools, including scripting and coding where required.
- Ensure effective integration of simulation models with BIM, GIS, and other digital platforms.
- Monitor advancements in simulation technologies and crowd dynamics research and assess their applicability to ongoing and future projects.
- Coordinate with project managers and planning teams to define simulation scopes and work packages.
- Break down complex simulation requirements into structured tasks and oversee their execution.
- Monitor progress, risks, and dependencies related to simulation activities across projects.
- Review and approve simulation reports, visualizations, and presentations for internal and external use.
- Ensure thorough documentation of simulation processes, assumptions, and methodologies.
- Guarantee compliance of simulation deliverables with relevant standards, regulations, and project requirements.
- Drive continuous improvement of simulation workflows, tools, and internal processes.
- Contribute to the development of internal guidelines, templates, and standard operating procedures.
- Promote a culture of innovation, knowledge sharing, and technical excellence within the simulation team.
- Proven expertise in crowd simulation, pedestrian behavior, and movement modeling.
- Experience with simulation software (e.g., PEDFlow) and data analysis/validation.
- Ability to simulate complex scenarios (normal operations, emergencies, evacuations) and provide actionable insights.
- Knowledge of scripting/coding and integration with BIM, GIS, or other digital platforms.
- Experience defining and maintaining simulation standards and quality assurance.
- Experience leading and mentoring a team of Simulation Engineers.
- Ability to allocate tasks effectively, build a high-performing team, and foster professional development.
- Involvement in recruitment, onboarding, and performance management.
- Strong coordination with project teams, planners, and stakeholders.
- Ability to translate complex simulations into strategic insights for projects.
- Responsible for reporting, documentation, and adherence to standards.
- Analytical and strategic thinking, problem-solving skills.
- Clear communication and ability to present complex results.
Lead Simulation Engineer (m/f/d) · Sl Rasch Gmbh