Senior Designer Mechanics

Sioux Embedded systems; Eindhoven; On-site; EUR 75,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible 32–40 hour work week with WFH

28 holidays plus 12 extra holidays

€6000 training budget per year

Sioux Campus with Labs access

Job summary

Sioux in Eindhoven invites a Senior Designer Mechanics to collaborate with Architects and cross-disciplinary teams on cutting-edge high-tech equipment. You will translate specifications into robust mechanical concepts and drive designs that are manufacturable and serviceable.

You will lead and mentor engineers, perform critical analyses, and coordinate with suppliers to ensure optimal costs and performance on advanced lithography machines, electron microscopes, and medical devices.

Qualifications

• BSc or MSc in Mechanical Engineering.
• At least 10 years in designing mechatronic and precision systems.
• Creativity in multidisciplinary design with trade-offs.
• Strong knowledge of Design for Excellence (DFX: cost, manufacturability, assembly, serviceability).
• Excellent communication; ability to coach and mentor other engineers.

Responsibilities

• Translate specifications into innovative mechanical concepts and designs.
• Perform hand calculations, tolerance analyses, and define critical-to-quality dimensions.
• Visualize concepts in 3D and collaborate with Architects, System Designers, and Engineers.
• Ensure designs are manufacturable, producible, and serviceable at optimal cost.
• Collaborate with suppliers on manufacturability and integration of vendor parts.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship within the mechanical team.

Skills

Mechatronic system design

Creative design solutions

Technical leadership

strong communication

Education

BSc/MSc Mechanical Engineering

Job description

IntroductionAs a Senior Designer Mechanics you are a sparring partner to the Architects.

In this role, you support our customers in the high tech industry with developing cutting-edge equipment, both in the Brainport region and internationally. Together with experts in mechanics, mechatronics, electronics, software and mathematics you will bring high-tech solutions to life, such as advanced lithography machines, compact electron microscopes or medical devices that automate human tissue analysis.

What function?

In this role, you support our customers in the high tech industry with developing cutting-edge equipment, both in the Brainport region and internationally. Together with experts in mechanics, mechatronics, electronics, software and mathematics you will bring high-tech solutions to life, such as advanced lithography machines, compact electron microscopes or medical devices that automate human tissue analysis.

What excites you as a Senior Designer Mechanics?

From our location in Eindhoven or sometimes at our clients' premises you like to keep yourself busy with:

• Act as a sparring partner to Architects and take ownership of translating specifications into innovative mechanical concepts and design solutions.
• Perform essential (hand) calculations, tolerance analyses, and define critical-to-quality dimensions.
• Visualize concepts and designs in 3D, contributing to product development in close collaboration with Architects, System Designers, and Engineers.
• Ensure designs meet customer needs and can be manufactured, assembled, tested, and serviced efficiently at optimal cost.
• Work closely with suppliers to align aspects like manufacturability, component availability, and integration of vendor parts.
• As a Senior Designer Mechanics, you take ownership of broader, more complex scopes and challenges within the mechanical domain, e.g. competence development, mentoring, or system-level thinking.
• Provide technical leadership to a team of engineers and designers, guiding them in mechanical development efforts.

Sound good so far? We'd love to tell you more...

This is what you bring to the table

• A BSc of MSc of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering.
• At least 10 years of experience and expertise in the design of mechatronic and precision systems.
• Creativity and skilled in finding design solutions based on multidisciplinary requirements and concepts.
• Excellent knowledge and experience with Design for excellence (DFX: cost, manufacturability, assembly, serviceability).
• Strong communication skills and the ability to coach, mentor and guide other Engineers and more junior Designers.

This is what you can expect in return from Sioux

• flexible 32-40 hour working week, with room to work from home.
• A healthy work-life balance is very important to us, we have 28 holidays with an option to acquire an additional 12 holidays.
• You will work with passionate colleagues who share your drive for technology and business success.
• By combining our expertise in software, electronics, mechanics, mechatronics, mathematics and assembly, we make the impossible possible for our customers – working on challenging high-tech projects.
• You get a lot of freedom and responsibility; after all, you know exactly what you are doing.
• Personal coaching and a training budget of €6000 per year, so you can keep developing yourself.
• We also find it important to have fun together, this means everything from family festivals and sparkling Christmas parties, to inspiring knowledge sessions for the high-tech community.
• You will be working on the Sioux Campus in the heart of the Brainport region, with daily access to our Sioux Labs living room for lunch, sports, making music, or sharing knowledge in one of our Tech Labs.

High Tech & High Fun

We can tell you all about the typical Sioux culture and the challenging high-tech projects. About how you can develop yourself like nowhere else. But we prefer to leave this to our own colleagues.

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Export control

This position requires access to controlled technology, as defined in the US Export Administration Regulations (15 C.F.R. § 730, et seq.). Qualified candidates must be legally authorized to access such controlled technology prior to beginning work. Business demands may require Sioux to proceed with candidates who are immediately eligible to access controlled technology.