Lead Engineer Mechanical Constructions

Brunel is a global provider of business services specializing in deployment of professionals in the field of Engineering, IT, Legal, Finance, Marketing & Communication, Healthcare and Oil & Gas industry. Since our incorporation in 1975, we have developed into an international group with over 11,000 employees and an annual turnover of over €1200 million. We operate from our own international network of 110 offices in 42 countries.

• Masters or Bachelor in Mechanical engineering.
• Minimum of 7 years of experience in a development and engineering organization with the realization of supporting structures and service mechanisms.
• At least 5 years of experience in leading design teams up to 10 design engineers.
• Knowledge of machine directives.
• Excellent knowledge in the field manufacturability of mechanical parts and of designing on stiffness.
• Technical communication with suppliers.
• 3D CAD modeling (preferable UG/NX).
• Experience with FEM and analytic tools, like NX structure, ANSYS, Matlab, Mathcad
• Must have before candidates will start: knowledge of NX, construction principles and geometric dimensioning and tolerance.

As a Lead Engineer you are responsible for realization of precision mechanical function development, ensuring to meet the specifications in terms of safety, reliability, stability, contamination, cost effectiveness, manufacturability and serviceability. You continuously improve the quality of the mechanical architecture. You are working within a multidisciplinary project, steering one or more designers in your team. You interface cross project with Lead Engineers, architects and system engineers.

• Translate performance specifications into design specification for main frame constructions and service mechanisms.
• Creation and validation of new concepts.
• Prepare planning for modules and sub-modules.
• Optimization of the design, with a team of designers.
• Supplier contact for design and drawing reviews on manufacturability.
• Definition and execution of final tests to verify the specifications.
• Cooperation with module integration into the complex systems.

Brunel supports your international career: since you are living in another country and probably don’t immediately know how to find your way in the Netherlands, Brunel can help you with this. As an international company, we know better than anyone what it is like to move to a foreign country to work. This is why we can arrange the most important things - including those that don’t involve your job - for you and your family so that you can fully focus on your career in the Netherlands. We will support you by housing, administrative matters and health insurance, but also we support by education and other facilities to make the international career as pleasant as possible.