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Industrial Engineer Timber Construction (all genders)

Roles & Responsibilities

  • Education as an Industrial Engineer with a focus on timber construction technology, including experience in timber construction, wood technology, or timber panel construction
  • Professional experience designing and optimizing industrial production systems, ideally takt-based flow production applying lean principles
  • Logical approach to defining work systems and workflows
  • Very good command of English and German with strong communication skills for international, multidisciplinary teams

Requirements:

  • Evaluate product designs (timber panel elements, wall and ceiling elements) for manufacturability (Design for Manufacturing and Assembly), considering production capabilities
  • Translate product designs into process documentation, including requirements, content specifications, and logical descriptions for digital implementation
  • Prepare implementation decisions
  • Provide logical process descriptions of production solutions for takt-based flow production, considering value stream, cycle times, and production data

Job description

About The Company

GROPYUS is a technology-based construction company focused on building multi-story residential buildings. Thanks to its prefabricated building system with various design options, industrial offsite construction, and fully digitalized processes, the company manufactures aspirational, sustainable, and affordable homes using timber construction methods. GROPYUS is using scalable construction and manufacturing solutions to tap into a future market, boost Europe's strength in innovation, while also playing a substantial role in improving sustainability.

About the Role

As an Industrial Engineer for our Concept Team within Advanced Manufacturing Engineering, you will play a key role in planning manufacturing process solutions and transferring them into our production system for the automated manufacturing of building modules (at our factory site in Germany) as part of our modular building system product development.

Working in an interdisciplinary environment (simultaneous engineering approach), you contribute to product solutions and help design production concepts. You collaborate closely with our product developers (modular construction experts, wall and ceiling elements), machine design engineers, a digital production control team, and production.

In this position, you are responsible for structured process documentation and for revising or extending it in the event of changes or new developments.

Your responsibilities also include:

  • Evaluation of product designs (timber panel elements, wall and ceiling elements) with regard to manufacturability (Design for Manufacturing and Assembly), taking production capabilities into account
  • Translation of product designs into process documentation, consisting of requirements, content specifications, and logical descriptions for digital implementation
  • Preparation of implementation decisions
  • Logical process descriptions of production solutions for takt-based flow production, considering the value stream, corresponding cycle times, and production data

 

Your Profile

  • Education as an Industrial Engineer with a focus on timber construction technology – ideally with experience in construction, timber construction, wood technology, or timber panel construction
  • Professional experience in designing and optimizing industrial production systems – ideally takt-based flow production applying lean principles
  • Logical approach to defining work systems and workflows
  • Analytical, structured, and well-documented working style with an awareness of deadlines
  • Strong communication skills and enjoyment of working in international and multidisciplinary teams
  • Very good command of both English and German

 

What we offer

  • An unlimited contract (full-time) with 30 vacation days.  
  • Flexible, hybrid work: You can work from home or come into the office on the schedule that works best for you. Feel like traveling and working from another location? No problem. Tune into meetings and work from abroad for up to 40 days per year. In addition, flex hours allow you to prioritize important moments in your day.  
  • Attractive perks and benefits: We offer a company pension scheme, language courses (English/German), and employee discounts with selected sustainable brands. Furthermore, our external partners in mental health support you in strengthening your mental health through anonymous private/group sessions.   
  • Virtual Shares Program: Participate in the success of GROPYUS through our Virtual Share Program.  
  • Ownership: You can truly make your mark with your work and contributions – on  all our organizational levels. Find your solutions, drive and test them.  
  • The chance to be part of something big: Our mission is to rethink an entire industry. Join us in reinventing construction and fostering sustainable, affordable living.   
  • A diverse and enriching work environment: Become a valued member of a wonderfully diverse team of individuals from over 50 countries. At GROPYUS we value inclusion above all, ensuring that everyone feels they belong – no matter their background. In this way, our differences become strengths that help us grow as a team. 

Join us on our mission to design buildings as continuously evolving products to create the most exciting and affordable experience for all. We build for people and conserve the resources of our planet.

We can't wait to get to know you. 
For more information, visit our website, and if you have any questions, please reach out to us via email.

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