Project Engineer in the Netherlands

• A salary between € 4,500 and € 6,100 gross per month, depending on your knowledge and experience
• 27 vacation days and 13 ADV days with full-time employment
• A one-year contract with a view to permanent employment
• Flexible working hours between 07:30 and 17:30
• The possibility to work 32 to 40 hours per week
• Plenty of opportunities for education, training, and personal development
• Growth opportunities towards project management or other disciplines such as production, purchasing, or sales
• A good pension scheme
• Participation in various collective schemes, including a collective discount on insurance
• An annual profit-sharing scheme
• A bicycle plan
• Fun outings, team activities, and the annual VDL party

Ready to challenge yourself?

What will you do?

As a Project Engineer, you are involved in the full development process of innovative air suspension and spring systems for the international truck, trailer, and bus market. In this role, you are technically responsible for a product group and play an important role in the development of new products, improvements, and customer projects.

In this position, you will work closely with colleagues from engineering, production, quality, purchasing, and sales, and you will also have direct contact with customers and suppliers. Your activities include:

• Developing and improving air suspension systems and components
• Translating customer requirements into technical designs and product specifications
• Creating 3D designs, technical drawings, and product documentation
• Drafting FMEAs, test plans, and technical analyses
• Supervising and evaluating product and system tests
• Collaborating with customers, suppliers, and internal departments to solve technical issues
• Technical release of products and product changes

You have a strong technical foundation and enjoy analyzing and solving technical problems. You are eager to learn, dare to ask questions, and look beyond just the theory.

Additionally, you are a strong communicator, work in a structured manner, and dare to take responsibility for your projects and product group. In doing so, you switch easily between design, testing, production, and customer contact. You also recognize yourself in the following points:

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.