Warehouse Automation Engineer

Kramp; Varsseveld; On-site; EUR 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Vacation days

ADV days (12)

Competitive salary

Career opportunities

Profit-sharing bonus

Work-from-home allowance

Travel allowance

Pension plan

Job summary

Kramp is seeking a Warehouse Automation Engineer to design and analyze material handling solutions for our European warehouses. You will own projects from concept to implementation, focusing on efficiency, cost management and process improvement.

You will work with the Supply Chain Engineering Team across countries, travel about 10% in Europe, and collaborate with procurement, legal and local operations. A mechanical engineering degree and AutoCAD experience are required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree or higher in Mechanical Engineering.
• 3+ years of relevant work experience in automated warehouses or consultancy.
• Experience with AutoCAD for system design.

Responsibilities

• Design engineering solutions and validation processes for hardware projects.
• Analyze information, draft standards and evaluate effectiveness of those standards.
• Inspect engineering works and specify remediation for conformance.

Skills

Project management

Analytical thinking

Organizational savvy

Education

Bachelor's Degree or higher in Mechanical Engineering

Tools

AutoCAD

Job description

Are you looking for an opportunity to design engineering solutions that positively impact on our international warehouses? Do you enjoy having a high level of ownership and working with diverse technologies? If so, would you like to join our Supply Chain team?

The Warehouse Automation Engineer oversees the design and analysis of operational strategies for various projects within the Kramp group's warehouses with a clear focus on Material Handling Equipment solutions. This includes tasks like process and methods analysis, cost management, capacity improvement, and optimizing routing and shipments. You will also be responsible for implementing these solutions effectively.

In this role you will work closely together with our other experienced Warehouse Engineering Manager who is based in the Netherlands. You will join the Supply Chain Engineering Team and collaborate with different stakeholders from different countries.

The role

As a Warehouse Automation Engineer, you will;

• Use your own vision to design engineering solutions and the associated validation process to enable the realization of a design that conforms to organizational standards.
• Contribute to the analysis of information, the drafting of engineering standards and specifications, and the evaluation of the effectiveness of those standards
• Carry out inspections to evaluate the quality of engineering works and specify the remedial works needed to ensure conformance with specifications and regulatory requirements.
• Working closely with our supplier, including specifying requirements, challenging their solutions, monitoring the implementation and aftercare including the contact with all the different stakeholders that are involved like manager indirect procurement, legal and local operations teams.
• Deliver required outcomes by managing day-to-day relationships with contract service providers while working within an established contract management plan.
• Continuously improve manufacturing or materials processes and process systems.
• Identify shortcomings in existing processes, systems and procedures, and use established change management programs to address them.
• Define and deliver products and services that meet customer needs by selecting the best possible approaches available within established systems.
• Deliver small-scale or medium-scale projects while working within an established program management plan.

Who are you?

For this job we have a couple of requirements:

• Bachelor's Degree or higher in (Mechanical) Engineering.
• Initial (3+ years) experience in a relevant work setting, e.g. automated e-commerce warehouses or production, or experience in a consultancy role.
• Background as mechanical engineer is considered an asset.
• Experience with AutoCAD to successfully design systems.
• Good project management or ambition to increase responsibility in this role.
• You are an analytical person, conceptually strong and organizational savvy.
• Willingness to travel (10% of your time - in Europe).

What do we offer

We value personal development a lot, so we offer a great personal training budget for different kinds of education. We are an ambitious, fast-growing, and financially sound organization. You can obviously expect (based on a Dutch contract):

• 25 vacation days and 12 ADV days (based on a fulltime contract);
• Competitive salary;
• Lots of freedom and mandate within your role;
• Great career opportunities;
• Profit-sharing bonus;
• Working-from-home allowance and travel allowance;
• A great pension plan.

About us

Thanks to our ambitions we are active throughout Europe: a leading position in the agricultural market for parts. We heavily invest in E-Business and innovations. Our aim is to make it easy for our customers to run their business. Working at Kramp means working with over 3500 international colleagues. The people at Kramp are enthusiastic, professional, and involved. We speak our customers' language, understand their challenges, and earn their trust to exceed their expectations. Our promise "It's that easy" is embedded in our culture and DNA.

Working at Kramp means: you belong here! Being part of our open business community

you will develop and realize! Learn and realize your potential

More about Kramp: https://www.careeratkramp.com/nl-nl

Varsseveld (NL)

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