Are you ready to turn complex system designs into fully operational, international sorting solutions? As a Project Leader Engineering, you will lead multidisciplinary projects from start to finish, ensuring time, quality, cost, and functionality are delivered across mechanical, electrical, and controls domains. You will work closely with lead engineers, project management, and the customer to define system functionalities, develop project plans, and coordinate resources, supply chain, installation, and commissioning.
When the customer site is ready, you guide the installation, commissioning, and testing phases, turning digital 3D models into real-life systems. You continuously identify and mitigate project risks while maximizing your team’s skills and contributing to process improvements and best practices across projects.
Your responsibilities
- Lead large or complex projects, ensuring all goals are achieved.
- Define project plans, schedules, and resources, and manage budgets, risks, and deliverables.
- Oversee production specifications, procurement, and system emulations, coordinating internal teams and external suppliers.
- Manage timely delivery of engineering outputs, including documentation, training, and handover to service.
- Coordinate the multidisciplinary project team, fostering continuous development and ensuring a balanced skillset.
- Ensure health and safety during the engineering phase and maintain compliance with relevant standards.
Your profile
- A technical degree at least at bachelor level
- Significant experience as a project leader, familiar with scope, planning, budget and R&O management
- Ability to speak both the customer’s language and that of the engineers in your team
- Pragmatic attitude and able to balance quality, lead time, costs and technology
- Proactive and takes initiative
- Ability to coach employees to get the best out of themselves
- Excellent verbal and written skills in English.
- Willing to travel internationally (15-20% of your time)
What do we offer?
This position offers a competitive salary range of € 5.500 to € 7.400 per month (excluding 8% holiday allowance).
On top of your fixed salary you’ll receive the following secondary benefits:
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40 vacation days (20 statutory days and a flexible budget worth 20 days).
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Flexible working hours.
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A hybrid workplace (40% working from home and 60% in the office).
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A Health & Wellbeing budget worth €300,- per calendar year.
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Commuting allowance, including full reimbursement of travel by public transport.
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Working from home allowance.
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Collective pension scheme and discount on additional health insurance.
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On-site company health centres with a gym, physiotherapists and occupational therapists.
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Vanderlande Academy and training facilities to boost your skills.
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A variety in Vanderlande Network communities and initiatives.
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And a great company restaurant and coffee bar with barista.
Contact
If this opportunity aligns with your expertise and ambitions, we invite you to apply by submitting your CV and cover letter. For further information,
please contact Stef Alferink (recruiter) by phone +31 413 755 087
Diversity & Inclusion
Vanderlande embraces diversity in all its forms. We welcome qualified applicants regardless of race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, age, or disability status.