Systems Engineer

Systems Engineer (Contract)

Location: Eindhoven

Duration: Initially 12 months  and start date: ASAP.

Hours/week: 40

Budget range: €3.500- 4900 per month

In this role, you will have the opportunity to:

To strengthen our Systems Engineering competence and staff the innovation projects that lead to the introduction of our first "medical product" and the follow-up products, we are looking for a Systems Engineer. The person will start in a System Integrator role in one of our development projects.

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:

To start with the urgent documentation tasks and to complete actions defined during the verification phase of our largest development project. This project is in the verification phase and is preparing the validation phase.

We would currently be best helped with someone who can create/update documentation and who has a hands-on and can-do mentality.

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

• A Master's degree in Electronics, Mechatronics, Physics or (Bio)Mechanical Engineering or a comparable subject
• At least 5 years of experience in a lead engineer role, managing complexity across involving multiple domains
• A track record of projects you have driven to success
• Sound knowledge of and experience with modeling / simulation methods & tools
• Solid experience with consumer product development
• Strong experience with requirements management tools
• The capability to translate user and business requirements into product requirements and high level product design and to check and optimize integration and verification
• Experience with root-cause analysis of production problems and consumer complaints
• A strong quality mindset: you don't accept underperformance or poor results
• Abstract, analytical and creative thinking skills
• Excellent communication skills (English)
• Motivation skills and persuasiveness
• Good collaboration skills, since you will be working with many disciplines and people from various companies across the world

Furthermore, it is strongly preferred that you have experience with:

• Development of medical products or products in another strongly regulated industry
• Ensuring full product safety risk management in a regulation compliant manner
• Design for Six Sigma: being trained and having applied the approach to produce robust designs
• Lifecycle management

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.