Field Engineer

• Challenging and varied job in the automotive industry
• High-tech machine construction
• Involvement from concept to end product
• Autonomous position
• Room for personal growth in your professional career
• Collegial and helpful team
• Monthly team meetings
• Dynamic work environment
• Open corporate culture
• International setting
• Flexible working hours
• Attractive and competitive salary package

In this role, your main responsibilities will be:

• Assure the start-up of all test machines, both during the test phase in the workshop in Bruges and at customer sites.
• Your tasks are varied, but the emphasis is mainly on the automation part (PLC and PC).
• You take care of the installation and configuration of the PLC and computer hardware, as well as testing and debugging the attached programmes.
• You will perform various entry checks, quality tests and repeatability tests of the machines.
• You complete the compliant checklists and prepare corresponding reports. You take care of the necessary documentation during the machine buy-offs. 
• You make improvement propositions.
• You are responsible for training both the operators and the maintenance staff of our customers on-site.
• You provide first-line support to customers and prepare reports after interventions, trainings and assistance. You are also responsible for preparing intervention kits in collaboration with the customer service department.
• Lastly, you perform impartial and confidential measurements in customer labs under the lab’s authority and in accordance with ISO 17025 and ISO 9001.

Our client provides its customers with state of the art intelligent machinery for the automotive industry and is leader in the development of advanced electrical, mechanical, and software solutions for end-of-line and propulsion test machinery. To strengthen their team in Belgium they are looking for an Field Engineer.

• Bachelor’s degree in electromechanics or equivalent through experience
• Knowledge of multiple automation and IT systems
• Experience in a service job is a plus
• Strong mechanical understanding and broad technical knowledge
• Autonomous and sense of responsibility
• Team player
• Sociable and communicative
• Eager to learn
• Creative and hands-on
• Flexible
• Knowledge of Dutch is desirable, but no absolute requirement
• Fluent in English, being multilingual (French or German) is desirable
• Available for relocations in the country and abroad for maximum two weeks, with a target of 50% of the annual work time