Senior Mechanical Development Engineer

Senior Mechanical Development Engineer (Contract)

Location: High Tech Campus Eindhoven

Duration: 12 months (with possible extension and/or Philips transfer)

Hours/week: 40

Budget range: €4675 - 6500 per month

In this role, you will have the opportunity to:

Philips challenges you to use your Mechanical engineering expertise to model, design & implement, integrate & test some of the world’s most innovative healthcare products and manufacturing systems, within the Product and System Engineering department. 

The ideal candidate brings multiple years of experience in designing and engineering mechatronic equipment (preferably in Medical/Healthcare domain). 

This expertise needs to be applied in an environment with a variety of customers and projects, and where system thinking combined with a proactive attitude are vital for success. Your contributions will focus on creating detailed (new) product designs or solutions that are suitable for scale-up and volume production. Included as well is the creation of necessary technical product documentation. You will work under the guidance of a senior technical lead.

When you choose to work at Philips you’ll work on life-changing projects; and contribute to innovative health technologies and solutions that improve billions of lives around the world.

You will be responsible for:

• You will be directly responsible for the mechanical solutions in multi-disciplinary and cross-functional projects, which typically have a mid- to long-term character, are complex, and can be divided in several sub-projects for the creation of subsystems. This also requires advanced knowledge of and collaboration with colleagues in other disciplines like: dynamics, thermal, electronics and software.

• You will lead internal and external mechanical design sub-teams. 

• You will work closely with the System Architect, other discipline Architects and the Project Manager.

• You are responsible for the overall manufacturability, interfacing and introduction of new technology and methods in manufacturing sites. 

• You will work closely with the commercial department to truly understand the customer’s technology challenges in order to offer projects, tailored services & technical support.

• Building an effective network with customers and suppliers.

To succeed in this role, you should have the following skills and experience:

• A MSc or PhD degree in Mechanical or Mechatronics Engineering.

• At least 10 years of professional experience in innovative product development, preferably including medical devices and -imaging.

• Proven leadership skills, coaching, acting as lead engineer, performing work breakdown / divide work & delegation / (final) review.

• Experience in translating customer needs into technical requirements and then clearly defining the complete mechatronic needs to project members.

• Mature skills in scoping, requirement clarification, and development effort estimation

• Proficient in 3D CAD, preferably Creo (Pro-Engineer) or NX Unigraphics.

• Special emphasis on profound understanding of mechanical design principles and analytical skills; demonstrated mechatronics background in combining mechanics with system engineering and other mechatronic disciplines such as fine mechanics, dynamics & control, thermal behavior/control, materials behavior, metrology (positioning and measurement).

• Broad technical knowledge and experience with bringing medical products to the market, including knowledge of regulatory design- and safety standards, such as IEC-60601, ISO13485, FDA. 

• Robust knowledge of design controls and risk management standards.

• Good understanding of design for quality aspects, testing critical to quality and regulatory requirements. Design for Six Sigma and GreenBelt certification (or equivalent) is a pré. 

You are a part of

Philips Innovation Engineering, which has a wide range of disciplines and know-how to support our customers in bringing their innovations to market, as fast and as efficiently possible. Our engineers benefit from decades of experience supporting our partners in the Philips Businesses. 

The Product and System Engineering department of Philips Innovation Engineering is unique in its multi-disciplinary system design approach covering all phases in the product lifecycle. The Mechatronics and Manufacturing Systems group specifically has contributed to many innovative solutions for our customers. Think of breakthrough solutions and concepts for new clinical procedures and applications. 

Our teams support the Philips businesses in bringing their innovations faster to market. As such we aim to cross-train diversely capable teams and constantly develop competence that are state of art. We are active in product as well as sub-system design, prototyping and testing. You will be working together in multi-disciplinary teams of highly skilled technical experts from both Philips Innovation Engineering and its customers.

In return, we offer you:

For this project, you’ll work for Philips and become a contract or permanent employee of YACHT (a Randstad company). As a contractor at Philips you'll enjoy cutting-edge challenges and unexpected experiences that make you a more in-demand professional. And as a YACHT employee, you can expect to receive ongoing support with your personal development and future prospects. 

YACHT provides all employees with a range of benefits, including pension, social security payments and potential to earn a quarterly bonus as well as a mobile and travel allowance.

Why work on a project at Philips?

If you’re looking for meaningful work and a chance to tackle complex challenges, broaden your skills and expertise and become an even more sought after professional, you’ll find all that and more with project work at Philips.

The Randstad companies are responsible for finding talent to provide services at Philips. If you are selected to provide services for Philips, you will be employed by Randstad and will not be an employee of Philips.