Senior Technologist Dynamics Job in Eindhoven, Netherlands

Senior Technologist Dynamics Job Description

Senior Technologist Dynamics

Your challenge
Challenge yourself in to contribute in Mechatronic development projects by performing analyses, trouble shooting and practical design recommendations for the world’s most demanding products and equipment. This is executed in an environment with a variety of customers and projects, where own initiative and system thinking are vital for success.

Your responsibilities
As a Senior Technologist Dynamics, you contribute to Mechatronic development projects by performing analyses, both experimental and numerical, in order to predict dynamic effects on the functioning or accuracy of systems. Besides analyses for systems under development, trouble shooting of e.g. vibration issues in existing products and/or machines will be part of the job. This can be in consultancy mode, or as a more thorough investigation project. In order to make practical design recommendations for performance improvement, various means, tools and methods will be applied, including numerical modeling (either with FEM (ANSYS) or with lumped models in Matlab Simulink), analytical studies, experimental vibration analysis (e.g. Modal Analysis), literature study and consulting peer experts. The role of Senior Technologist Dynamics will include contributing to project acquisition, writing project proposals and leading small technical teams.

Your team
Philips Innovation Services has a wide range of disciplines and know-how to serve our customers in bringing their innovations to market, as fast and as efficiently possible. Over 600 colleagues benefit from decades of experience supporting customers in Philips Businesses, Philips Research and hundreds of companies outside Philips.

The Mechatronics department of Philips Innovation Services, with approximately 200 employees, is unique in its system design approach which has lead to many practical solutions for our customers. Think of breakthrough solutions in smooth motion, high accuracy positioning, and mechanical construction in e.g. lithography systems and magnetic levitation stages. We are active in equipment as well as sub-system design, prototyping and testing. Next to that a lot of our mechatronics solutions are applied in consumer products and healthcare systems. You will be working in multi-disciplinary teams of highly skilled technical experts from both Philips Innovation Services and its customers.

The Mechatronics Technology-group within the Mechatronics department is a group of over 35 specialists in the field of Control, Dynamics, Electromechanics, Thermal management, Acoustics, Tribology, FEM etc. The Dynamics-team, with about 15 experienced colleagues, solves high tech challenges for our customers. Each day brings new challenges as we work in many different projects for a variety of customers, from small and medium enterprises to complex industries like semiconductors and solar power.

Our offer
We welcome you to an inspiring work environment that is internationally and multidisciplinary oriented, with a variety of customers and projects. In this project-based environment, people have both advanced theoretical knowledge and the capability to put that knowledge into practice - fast. We offer extensive opportunities for growth in technical and personal development, as well as stimulating challenges across a wide range of application domains, from developing state-of-the-art lithographic wafer stages, to pioneering the latest implantable medical devices. All this results in great job satisfaction, the chance to broaden your experience and the opportunity to shape and grow your career will be in your own hands!

Our benefits are very competitive and designed around your preferences:

• Depending on experience, a year salary (fulltime) between € 60.000 and € 78.000 (including personal benefits package)
• 25 Days of leave and the possibility to purchase up to 20 extra days off annually
• A variable bonus based on both Philips results and personal performance
• Extensive set of tools to drive your career, such as a personal development budget, free training and coaching
• Solid company pension scheme (employee contribution fee 0%), and attractive collective health insurance package
• Opportunity to buy Philips shares and products with discount
• Healthy work-life balance

Senior Technologist Dynamics Job Requirements

We are looking for

• Ph.D. or M.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering, with at least 5 years of work experience;
• Thorough knowledge of theory on dynamic systems is required;
• Experience with dynamic modeling and vibration measurements is required;
• Understanding of mechatronic systems, control theory and actuation principles is preferred;
• Solid analytical attitude combined with interest and skills for experimental validation;
• Passion for technology, interest in applications;
• Experience with leading small technical teams and project management;
• Experience with writing project proposals;
• Excellent communicative skills, professional level of written and verbal communication in English;
• Customer centric attitude, interest in executing R&D projects for customers, flexible and cooperative.

Senior Technologist Dynamics Application Information

If you recognize yourself in this profile and would like to take this challenge, we invite you to apply!

How to apply
Please apply by the apply button below. After a pre-selection process based on your CV you will be invited for a face-to-face recruitment- and business interviews. The interviews will take place in Eindhoven, the Netherlands.

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