R&D Mechatronics Engineer

Our customer is a key player in the racking & storage solutions industry with focus on developing automated storage solutions both for pallets and bins. To strengthen their team in Belgium they are looking for an R&D mechatronics engineer.

In this challenging role you will contribute to the optimization of existing products as well as the development of new standard product groups. Your main tasks and responsibilities will be:

• Follow up a number of R&D projects in a very structured way, from brainstorming until handing them over to the product implementation department.
• Make a detailed planning and carefully document all ongoing R&D projects.
• You follow up on the different R&D steps and continuously monitor whether costs, timing and investments are still in line with the initially defined objectives.
• Check all designs against the current European and/or international guidelines and against all company and divisional agreements.
• Are in close consultation with the project engineering department. Here, existing products are questioned and continuously checked against the needs of the market.
• Coordinate the creation of prototypes and align the planning with the test engineer.
• Align with the IT engineer for the adjustment or development of new software applications.
• Keep yourself continuously up-to-date on the new trends within the logistics world.
• Together with your colleagues, you set up innovation programs. For this, you work together with the logistics consultants. In this way, solutions are invented for new future logistic challenges.