Aerospace mechanic / CNC Machinist (m/f/x)

Working at NLR means working in a national and international high-tech environment. Collaboration and involvement are highly valued by us. By giving you freedom and personal responsibility, you are best able to achieve groundbreaking innovations. Do you want to develop yourself both professionally and personally? That is also possible at NLR as a learning organization, supplemented by a training budget, a mentor, internal coaches, and good contacts with vocational, applied sciences, and universities.

In addition to all this, we offer you:

• The opportunity to contribute to complex and socially relevant issues;

• Sufficient holiday and ATV days (45 in total for full-time employment) for a good work-life balance;

• An end-of-year bonus of 8%;

• An allowance for your healthcare costs;

• Extra paid parental leave;

• The possibility to develop yourself with education and courses that match your ambitions.

Are you helping build the technology for the aircraft of the future?

How do you develop aircraft that are quieter, more efficient, and more sustainable? At Royal NLR, we research and test new technologies for aerospace. To do this, we develop and build high-quality test equipment, aircraft parts, and complex wind tunnel models ourselves.

As an aerospace mechanic / CNC machinist, you ensure that a design actually becomes a high-quality product. You work independently within a small team and receive a lot of freedom to use your craftsmanship to determine how to best make a part or assembly.

No mass production, but unique parts, prototypes, and assemblies for aerospace research.

You are broadly involved in the development of precision mechanical setups. One time it is bench work, the next time you are busy with CNC machining or the assembly and finishing of complex parts.

You receive a drawing, model, or technical question and subsequently determine a large part of the approach yourself. Which approach do you choose? Choice of materials, how do you clamp the product? Which tolerances are critical? And how do you ensure that the various parts ultimately come together accurately?

Your responsibilities include, among other things:

· Accepting assignments from the organization;

· thinking along about manufacturability and technical solutions.

· CNC milling and turning and programming operations in SolidCAM;

· applying other conventional and precision mechanical processes;

· measuring, checking, fitting, and finishing parts;

· assembling and putting together high-quality aviation parts and test equipment;

In doing so, you work with various materials, complex geometries, and high accuracies. You look beyond just the machining on the machine: you understand what you are making, how it is assembled, and what function the end product has.