R&D Mechatronics Engineer

Your main tasks and responsibilities will be:

• Follow up a number of R&D projects in a very structured way, from brainstorming until handing them over to the product implementation department.
• Make a detailed planning and carefully document all ongoing R&D projects.
• You follow up on the different R&D steps and continuously monitor whether costs, timing and investments are still in line with the initially defined objectives.
• Check all designs against the current European and/or international guidelines and against all company and divisional agreements.
• Are in close consultation with the project engineering department. Here, existing products are questioned and continuously checked against the needs of the market.
• Coordinate the creation of prototypes and align the planning with the test engineer.
• Align with the IT engineer for the adjustment or development of new software applications.
• Keep yourself continuously up-to-date on the new trends within the logistics world.
• Together with your colleagues, you set up innovation programs. For this, you work together with the logistics consultants. In this way, solutions are invented for new future logistic challenges

• Master’s degree in Mechatronics, Electronics, Automation or a related field
• You have at least 8 years of engineering experience, preferably in the material handling, manufacturing, automation, machine, or aerospace industries
• Notions of functional safety, performance levels and risk analysis
• You have a keen interest in the full product picture, including electrical engineering, mechanical design and software
• You are an autonomous team player
• Being innovative is a core topic for you
• English is a must (C1 or higher)

Our customer is a key player in the racking & storage solutions industry with focus on developing automated storage solutions both for pallets and bins.

To strengthen their team in Belgium they are looking for an R&D mechatronics engineer.

• A place in an enthusiastic, young organisation with the necessary ambitions
• The necessary freedom and the opportunity to take initiatives
• A competitive gross salary
• Group and hospitalisation insurance
• Meal vouchers
• Net allowances
• CAO90 Bonus
• 12 ADV Days (32 leave days in total)