Technical Services Employee

Jan Zandbergen Group; Veenendaal; On-site; EUR 36,000 - 48,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Free lunch

Gym access

Company outings

End-of-year bonus

Holiday pay

Staff discount on meat

Job summary

Jan Zandbergen Group is seeking a Technical Services Assistant to join a close-knit team of technicians in our Veenendaal operations. You will support mechanical and electrical technicians, performing preventative maintenance and fault resolution on a variety of automated food-industry machinery.

Based at our state-of-the-art facility, you’ll work daytime hours (06:00–08:00) with on-call duties roughly every 4–5 weeks, contributing to reliable production and safe, food-grade operations.

Qualifications

• Technical training at MBO level provides a solid foundation for this role.
• Experience as a mechanic with hydraulic, mechanical and pneumatic systems.
• Able to work as part of a team and contribute ideas.
• Willingness to learn and grow in a family-owned business.

Responsibilities

• Carry out periodic and preventative maintenance per plan and update it as a team.
• Resolve faults in electronic, hydraulic and pneumatic systems with food safety in mind.
• Adjust, configure and maintain control systems, including the cold store with automated order-picking.
• Ensure inspection and maintenance schedules for each machine to minimise disruptions.

Skills

Team player

Initiative

Keen to learn

Education

MBO level training

Tools

Hydraulic systems

Pneumatic systems

Industrial electronics

Job description

ABOUT JAN ZANDBERGEN

Will you be put in charge of one of the most modern machine fleets in the food industry?

The Jan Zandbergen Group, comprising Jan Zandbergen, Diviande and Future Food Group, is a supplier and manufacturer of ingredients, semi-finished products, finished products and concepts in the meat, poultry and meat substitute sectors. With around 300 employees, we operate from our head office in Veenendaal. Our slogan is “Innovation That Matters”, and there’s a good reason for that. Our roots lie in meat, but we look far beyond that. Our aim is to provide our customers, not only today but also in the future, with products that are not only tasty but also sustainable – products that are good for people, animals and the environment.

ABOUT THE ROLE

As a Technical Services Assistant, you’ll become part of a close-knit and permanent team of technicians who know exactly what to expect from one another. Whilst one colleague may excel at the mechanical side of our machines, you’ll complement them with your electrical engineering expertise – or vice versa.

Together, our technical services team has one task: to carry out maintenance and resolve faults as efficiently as possible, ensuring that the food industry’s state-of-the-art machinery continues to run like clockwork.

As a Technical Services Assistant at Jan Zandbergen Group, your work is literally different every day. How about, for example, troubleshooting faults on the robots in our 15‑metre-high, fully automated warehouse? Then perhaps tinkering with the air conditioning or a malfunctioning roller door. You never know what you’ll come across, apart from the scheduled maintenance rounds, and that makes this one of the most varied technical roles around!

WHAT YOU WILL BE DOING

• Together with your colleagues, you will carry out periodic and preventative maintenance in accordance with the plan that you draw up and continuously update as a team.

• You will resolve faults in electronic, hydraulic and pneumatic systems, whilst taking food safety into account.

• Adjusting, configuring and maintaining control systems, including those in our cold store with its fully automated order‑picking system.

• You will be responsible for inspection and maintenance schedules for each machine, to minimise the number of disruptions as much as possible.

• You will analyse faults to identify possible solutions to technical problems.

• You will mainly work during the day (starting between 06:00 and 08:00) and will be on call once every 4 to 5 weeks.

ABOUT YOU

• Your technical training at MBO level gives you a solid foundation for this role;

• You’re a great colleague who enjoys working as part of a team, takes the initiative and likes to contribute ideas;

• Don’t know everything yet? That’s fine! As long as you’re keen to learn, you’ll go a long way!

• You have gained experience as a mechanic working with hydraulic, mechanical and pneumatic systems;

• You’ll feel at home in an informal and growing family business;

• Ideally, you live within a 30‑minute commute of Veenendaal, or a maximum of 45 minutes.

WHAT DO WE OFFER YOU?

• A gross monthly salary of between €3,000 and €4,000 (based on knowledge, skills, age and qualifications), a basic allowance, a cold‑weather allowance, an irregular hours allowance and an overtime allowance – in short: a good income.

• 24 days’ annual leave per year and 8% holiday pay;

• A free lunch every day with fruit, salad, soups and fresh rolls;

• A 2% end‑of‑year bonus;

• The opportunity to work out every working day in the gym at our own Food Innovation Centre.

• Every Friday afternoon there’s a sociable get‑together, and we also organise great departmental and company outings! We regularly hold other fun activities too, such as ‘All of Zandbergen Bakes’, bingo, a pub quiz or indoor football.

• Six times a year, the opportunity to purchase meat (and meat substitutes) at a competitive price.

• A permanent, stable job where you can develop yourself and continue to grow in terms of tasks, responsibilities and salary.

• A financially sound employer committed to the long term.

• It’s no coincidence that our slogan is “Innovation That Matters”. So expect plenty of initiatives that we’ll “just go ahead and do” – the Jan Zandbergen Group never stands still, and neither will your career. We offer internal and external training and development programmes.