System Designer distribution solution development

Job Title

Job Description

Are you ready to move the World of Technology forward towards automation and material handling solutions? We are looking for a mechatronics system designer who will help shape the design that enables seamless integration of world-class modules into our material handling solutions.

Our company

Vanderlande is the global market leader for future-proof logistic process automation at airports and in the parcel market. Furthermore, we are also a leading supplier of process automation solutions for warehouses, which seamlessly integrate innovative systems, intelligent software, and life-cycle services. 

Introduction

In Technology, former Research and Development (R&D), no two days are the same. Our activities are based all over the world, and each project is different. The Solution Development team develops complex solutions for the distribution market. Our talented System Designers are committed to solve the next challenge and are enhancing Vanderlande’s competitive position.

What will you be doing

As a System Designer, you are responsible for specifying and designing multi-disciplinary functions to be used worldwide in our logistics systems. Your design is implemented by a team of specialists with whom you closely cooperate. You will be a partner of the platform and product architects and system integration, and together with your expert team, you will carry the responsibility for the final release(s) of your multidisciplinary module and its desired function.

Responsibilities 

• Responsible for a multidisciplinary functional design of a module, its function from initial requirements set by the Product Architect until the delivery of the tested function to the integrator 

• Work in a multi-disciplinary team of specialists in the field of Mechanical, Electronics, Electro-Mechanics, PLC and Software. Together with these specialists, you design a function that fits within Vanderlande’s technology standards and reference architecture, or if it doesn’t fit to define requirements for the part missing.

• Requirements Management. Write requirement specifications, design specifications, test plans, specifications, and report in the Vanderlande requirement tooling (e.g. Polarion, Enterprise Architect, Jira) 
• Use Model-Based Design techniques for functionalities that concern complex movement of parcels and/or the flow control of these parcels. Based on these models, define requirements and make concept design choices 

• Applies system design methodologies and techniques (PSDM, 8D, DFMEA, Model Based Design, Design for Six Sigma, Numerical Calculations etc.) 

What do we ask from you?

You have a pragmatic and result-driven attitude. You are eager to learn and curious about the new technologies within and outside Vanderlande.  

• You have a relevant master’s degree in a technical area e.g. Mechanical Engineering (System & Control, Dynamics & Control), Industrial Engineering, Manufacturing Systems Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a proven track record indicating a comparable knowledge and abstraction level.
• You have 3-5 years of relevant working experience in designing and engineering multi-disciplinary industrial systems.
• You can keep the overview and can operate on various abstraction levels.
• Relevant work experience within the field of Robotics and AI technology is considered a plus.
• Have gone through the V-cycle of a product development in relevant domain.
• It is important that you can convince others of a particular point of view to obtain an agreement with your stakeholders. 
• You are a functional/system thinker able to see the big picture, yet also go into details.
• Comfortable with uncertainty and unknowns
• Being able to use Model-based design using Matlab/Simulink is considered a plus
• You master the English language, both orally and in writing 

What we offer:

• Flexible time schedule.
• Remote working policy (60% from home ~ 3 day/week) with additional compensation for home expenses. This can be adapted due to business needs.
• Holiday: 22 working days, an additional week in Easter & Christmas, and a pack of Magic Days with a reduced work schedule picked at your own convenience.
• Flexible compensation plan (fiscal benefits): private health insurance, transportation, restaurant, nursery, training).
• Continuous training (academy) and appraisal process (career plan).
• Allowance for overseas working.