Mechanical Installations Advisor

That is why you want to work as a mechanical installations advisor at NS

• Guarantee safe and reliable technical installations, you can do it!
• With your technical skills as an installation technical manager, you will contribute your part to that.
• You will get the chance to maintain our real estate in the (Randstad North - North Holland, South Holland, Utrecht, Flevoland) in terms of safety and reliability.

'Together with us, you make traveling by train even better and more enjoyable for our passengers. Every single day. The journey of tomorrow starts with you!'

With our stations and other real estate properties serving as starting, departure, or transfer points, we offer our passengers a beautiful and, above all, safe environment for their journey day in and day out. To keep everything running smoothly at the station, you ensure that all installations work safely and well. You are responsible for performing regular inspections on the real estate properties outside the stations in the north-east Netherlands region. You ensure proper maintenance and arrange for repair work to be carried out. A safe environment for all passengers and users is what you strive for. Ensuring that all mechanical installations function as optimally as possible.

Partly thanks to your qualities in the field of electrical engineering, W-installations, and your installation technical knowledge, you are of invaluable importance in:

• Budgeting annual maintenance and replacement of mechanical installations and processing this into the maintenance plan.
• Requesting and checking quotes and processing data into the building management system.
• Planning, purchasing and realizing the annual maintenance work on stations and objects and processing the maintenance needs into a multi-year maintenance plan (MJOP).
• Inspecting all mechanical installations on our station buildings.
• Preventive maintenance based on the annual maintenance plan. Supervising and coordinating the work assigned to fixed maintenance partners and the necessary inspections. You also periodically test the installations and assess the overall condition of the installations.
• Guiding the supplier in the control of specialist and/or major maintenance activities carried out from the planning program.
• Advising colleagues and clients about technical management and maintenance and the future manageability of the real estate in your portfolio
• Advising and helping the fault organization and advising on new construction and renovation projects.

In the Randstad North region, you and your colleagues will initiate, improve, and investigate the quality of stations and other real estate for tenants and users. Together, you manage and maintain the installations of the buildings. At these often monumental locations, you will work in beautiful buildings within a growing team. Working hours vary, so in most cases, you will work with a few colleagues from your team.

At NS, we find diversity and inclusion important; it makes working together more fun and often improves the result. Your background or religious beliefs do not matter: we are primarily curious about your vision on the position of mechanical installations advisor.

• A completed MBO or HBO diploma in the field of mechanical engineering and possibly additional training in mechanical installations.
• Relevant and recent work experience regarding budgeting for maintenance and replacement of mechanical installations, and the ability to translate this into a multi-year maintenance plan.
• You are good at communicating with and advising colleagues and clients, while also paying attention to your independence.
• You have VCA-VOL or are willing to obtain it.
• You are a truly enthusiastic professional with a healthy dose of ambition who, with your analytical ability and knowledge, likes to understand and figure everything out yourself.
• You are good at drafting memos to explain technical problem statements in easy language.

At NS, we believe it is important that we dare to address each other and that we can always speak our minds. We are looking for colleagues with courage, who are open to change. For this position, these are all crucial success factors to be able to achieve your goals in collaboration with your team and the business.

Working at NS means that you can make *the* difference in the dynamic world of sustainable mobility. You help keep the Netherlands accessible, for everyone. At NS, you get a lot of freedom. The possibilities to develop yourself are great. We promise you that no day is the same. And as one of the most beautiful employers in the Netherlands, we have even more to offer. For this position, including:

• A salary between € 3,743 and € 6,491 gross per month (scale 60) (based on 36 hours - scaling based on work experience).
• A 36-hour work week.
• 144 hours of statutory leave (based on full-time employment) + extra leave depending on age (at least one week).
• The possibility to exchange 3 Christian holidays for 3 non-Christian holidays.
• 3% end-of-year bonus, 8% holiday allowance, and an excellent pension scheme.
• Your train travel in 2nd class is free; travel in 1st class is possible with a small personal contribution.
• Your family travels for free during off-peak hours.
• Discount on European train travel once you have worked at NS for 1 year.
• Professional development opportunities
• A choice plan including, among others, a bicycle plan, extra pension accrual, or extra vacation days.
• Want to know more? View our employment conditions and collective labor agreement.

Apply directly (but certainly before 01-01-2026) via the application button. Within a few minutes, you will receive an automatic application confirmation; we will respond to your application within 2 weeks.

You can address your application to Ruwan de Vries, corporate recruiter.

Any questions about the application process? Email our front office via: recruitment@ns.nl. You can also contact them for questions about applying anonymously.

Would you prefer to contact us by telephone? Then call our front office at 0886713666.

• A background check, including a VOG (Certificate of Conduct), is part of the application procedure. Please also consider the signing of an integrity statement and a non-disclosure agreement.
• We find it important that everyone who works with us feels at home. You can see this in everything we do, and therefore also in our recruitment policy. Read more here.