EASA Licensed Engineer

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:

• 45 vacation days (based on full-time employment);

• 8% holiday allowance and a fixed year-end bonus of 8%;

• The costs for traveling by public transport are fully reimbursed. Do you travel with your own transport? Then you will receive a mileage allowance for commuting.

• A healthcare allowance via our collective health insurance with OHRA as extra support for your healthcare costs;

• Extra paid parental leave.

Are you looking for a challenging job in the world of aerospace? And would you like to further develop yourself within a flight test organization? Then apply for our vacancy!

As a Licensed Engineer, you are part of the maintenance team of the flight test organization that NLR has together with TU Delft. For this purpose, NLR possesses both a PART-CAMO and a PART-145 organization, located at Rotterdam The Hague Airport. Together with your colleagues, you are responsible for the modification, maintenance, conversion, and airworthiness of the test aircraft (Cessna Citation II and Pipistrel Velis Electro). You also contribute to the good management of the hangar and support the logistical processes surrounding the maintenance. With your technical knowledge of the aircraft, you are involved in research projects. In short, a varied position revolving around two interesting research aircraft.

The Flight Operations department is responsible for the management and operation of the NLR research aircraft, the Pipistrel PH-NLX and two Citations, PH-LAB and PH-NLR. At Rotterdam airport, we have a hangar where we store and maintain the aircraft. Annually, we fly approximately 350 hours for various research and measurement flights. The department is developing in the fields of electric flying, hydrogen flying, flight testing, and the deployment of larger UAS. With all the developments in aviation, the need for more knowledge in these areas is great.

In our team of over 20 colleagues, we work multidisciplinarily with TU Delft on our test flight organization. We find a pleasant working environment essential. The atmosphere within the department is informal and collegial, and we find it important that everyone can feel at home with us.

Royal NLR has been a knowledge organization for over 100 years with the will and ambition to innovate. Driven by that motivation, we make the world of aerospace safer, more sustainable, more efficient, and more effective, and we stand for groundbreaking innovations.

More than 1000 driven professionals work with us, from aeronautical engineers to psychologists and from mathematicians to application experts. NLR stands for an inclusive and diverse organization where everyone feels welcome, safe, valued, and respected.

Please call or email Pien Moller (recruiter) via 0611443915 or pien.moller@nlr.nl

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