Change Coordinator

• Good employment conditions matching your knowledge and experience.
• Profit sharing.
• 27 vacation days and 13 ADV days for full-time employment.
• A good pension scheme.
• Room for personal development through training and education.
• Growth opportunities within VDL Konings and VDL Group.

Your role:

A customer requests a customized version of an existing module, machine, or system. Engineering modifies a part or technical specification. A supplier announces that a component is no longer available. Or an improvement from production must be permanently incorporated into the product design.

Every change has consequences. Which configuration applies to which customer or which serial number? Should existing stock be used up, adjusted, or written off? Which parts need to be reordered? Have the drawings, bills of materials, work instructions, and production orders been updated? And does Production have the right information and materials at the right time?

As Change Coordinator, you manage this process from request through to implementation and closure. You ensure that the impact of a change is assessed integrally in advance, that decisions are recorded, and that all involved departments carry out their actions in a timely manner.

In doing so, you monitor both temporary and customer-specific configurations as well as permanent product changes. You prevent old and new versions from being used interchangeably and ensure a controlled transition to the new situation.

Because this is a new position within VDL Konings, you will also be given the space to further shape and professionalize the change process. You will be part of the Supply Chain & Purchasing department and work intensively with almost all disciplines within the company.

• Coordinating technical and customer-driven product changes from the request through to full implementation.
• Registering, structuring, and monitoring change requests and associated actions.
• Organizing multidisciplinary impact analyses with, among others, Engineering, Sales, Project Management, Work Preparation, Purchasing, Planning, Production, Logistics, and Quality.
• Monitoring that drawings, specifications, bills of materials, routings, work instructions, and other production documentation are updated and released in a timely manner.
• Checking whether production orders and material requirements align with the correct product configuration.
• Identifying risks to quality, cost, delivery time, inventory, and customer agreements.
• Monitoring the change budget and the agreed implementation timeline, including timely adjustments in case of deviations.
• Escalating when actions, decisions, or releases fall behind and thereby jeopardize projects or deliveries.
• Informing involved departments about the status, planning, decision-making, and implementation of changes.
• Monitoring the completeness, traceability, and administrative closure of every change.
• Developing and improving procedures, working agreements, consultation structures, and reports for change and configuration management.

You are a structured and persistent coordinator who understands that a seemingly small change can have major consequences for the rest of the organization. You look beyond just the technical adjustment and also oversee the consequences for materials, inventory, planning, production, costs, and customer agreements.

You do not need to design every technical solution yourself. However, you must be able to understand technical information, ask the right questions, and recognize when information or decision-making is not yet complete.

You are clear in agreements, hold colleagues accountable for actions, and do not let go of changes until they have been implemented in a demonstrable and controlled manner. In doing so, you know how to connect different interests. You understand the need for speed, but simultaneously safeguard quality, traceability, and process discipline.

Do you get energy from connecting technology, processes, data, and people? Do you ensure that a change is not only approved but also actually correctly implemented in drawings, bills of materials, orders, inventory, and production?

Then we would love to get in touch with you.

Apply for the position of Change Coordinator at VDL Konings and help us realize changes in a controlled, traceable, and effective manner throughout the entire organization.