Manager Engineering, Purchasing & Work Preparation

• A salary between €6500 and €7600 gross per month, depending on knowledge and experience
• 27 vacation days and 13 ADV days
• Training and development opportunities
• An independent position with a lot of responsibility
• A place within the management team
• Working in day shifts (08:00 - 16:30)
• Annual profit sharing
• Collective benefits, such as discounts on insurance and other products
• An informal atmosphere with outings and events
• Pension and travel allowance in accordance with the Metalektro collective labor agreement (CAO)

Ready to challenge yourself?

What will you do?

As Manager Engineering, Purchasing & Work Preparation, you will lead the Engineering, Purchasing, and Work Preparation departments and be a member of the management team. You ensure that new products are not only technically well-developed but can also be produced efficiently. Thanks to your experience within plastics production, you know which choices influence quality, manufacturability, costs, and delivery times. Together with your team, you ensure a professional and future-proof organization. Your responsibilities include:

• Leading, coaching, and developing engineering, purchasing, and work preparation
• Achieving departmental objectives and KPIs
• Monitoring quality, planning, capacity, and costs
• Further professionalizing processes and working methods
• Guiding improvement and development trajectories
• Connecting engineering, production, sales, and purchasing
• Contributing to the strategic direction of VDL Wientjes Emmen
• Supporting product developments and industrialization trajectories within the plastics industry

You lead a team consisting of a Lead Engineer, four Project Engineers, a Tactical Buyer, and a Purchaser.

You are an experienced leader who understands how a plastic product comes into being from idea to end product. You can switch between strategy and operations and know how to bring professionals along in change and improvement. Additionally:

Do you have experience within the plastics industry and are you ready for a role where technology, leadership, and strategy come together? Then we would love to meet you.

At VDL Groep, we believe in personal contact with our candidates. Therefore, we handle the recruitment and selection for this vacancy ourselves and only make use of selected recruitment partners with whom agreements have been made. Do we receive an unsolicited CV via this vacancy anyway? Then we will treat this as a direct application from the candidate. This does not create any mediation or placement agreement. Thank you for your understanding and interest in VDL Groep.