Senior Electrical Designer Job in Eindhoven, Netherlands

Royal Philips Electronics of the Netherlands is a diversified Health and Well-being company, focused on improving people’s lives through timely innovations.

As a world leader in healthcare, lifestyle and lighting, Philips integrates technologies and design into people-centric solutions.

Senior Electrical Designer Job Description

Your challenge
Philips challenges you to use your engineering expertise to model, design and implement some of the world’s most demanding motion control and precision positioning systems for industries such as semiconductor manufacturing and medical imaging. Your contributions can range from early customer contacts and project definitions to the ramp-up and sustaining of volume production.

Your responsibilities
As Senior Electrical Designer you will be responsible for creating electrical design in advanced mechatronic systems in projects which have a long-term character and are complex
You work comfortably in multi-disciplinary teams of highly skilled technical experts from both Philips Innovation Services and its customers and will cooperate with other parties such as technology providers and suppliers to find solutions that solve the technical and business challenges of your customers
In major projects you will lead a team of designers and report to the project manager. In smaller projects you are responsible for the complete project and will work solely or with a small team.
Contributing to build the electrical engineering competence in the mechatronics program by an attitude of active learning and outward looking
Building an effective competence network with customers, industry partners, universities and suppliers. You actively look around to acquire new insights, to strengthen the knowledge base and competence of the department and yourself in the domains of high precision equipment
Supporting the commercial department in acquiring new projects and defining project plans. You actively contribute to the definition of project objectives and scope and to the preparation of smart project plans. If requested you will lead small to medium sized projects or parts of bigger projects, and you convincingly present the results of your work to customers.

Your team
Philips Innovation Services has a wide range of disciplines and know-how to support our customers in bringing their innovations to market, as fast and as efficiently possible. Over 600 colleagues benefit from decades of experience supporting customers in Philips Businesses, Philips Research and hundreds of companies outside Philips.

The Mechatronics department of Philips Innovation Services, with approximately 200 employees, is unique in its system design approach which has lead to many practical solutions for our customers. Think of breakthrough solutions in smooth motion, high accuracy positioning, and mechanical construction in e.g. lithography systems and magnetic levitation stages. We are active in equipment as well as sub-system design, prototyping and testing. Next to that a lot of our mechatronics solutions are applied in consumer products and healthcare systems. You will be working in multi-disciplinary teams of highly skilled technical experts from both Philips Innovation Services and its customers.

High Precision Systems within Mechatronics is a department of over 60 specialists in several technology fields. As a Senior Electrical Designer you will lead a team of (junior) designers who are involved in the projects. You report directly to the Department Head of the High Precision Systems and directly to the (Senior) Project Manager.

Our offer
We offer you an inspiring work environment that is internationally and multidisciplinary oriented, with a variety of customers and projects. A project-based environment where people have both advanced theoretical knowledge and the capacity to put that knowledge into practice – fast. We offer you extensive opportunities for growth in technical and personal development. Stimulating challenges across a wide range of application domains, from developing stat-of-the-art lithographic wafer stages, to pioneering the latest implantable medical devices.

Our benefits are very competitive and designed around your preferences:

• Depending on experience, a year salary (fulltime) between € 60.000 and € 78.000 (including personal benefits package)
• 25 Days of leave and the possibility to purchase up to 20 extra days off annually
• A variable bonus based on both Philips results and personal performance
• Extensive set of tools to drive your career, such as a personal development budget, free training and coaching
• Solid company pension scheme (employee contribution fee 0%), and attractive collective health insurance package
• Opportunity to buy Philips shares and products with discount
• Healthy work-life balance

Senior Electrical Designer Job Requirements

We are looking for

• A Bachelor or Master degree in electrical engineering or comparable
• Approximately 10 years electrical design experience in high tech, multi-disciplinary systems (ideally with the semiconductor industry)
• Technical knowledge or experience with motion control, equipment infrastructure, service/reliability aspects, EMC, servo systems, PCB design, technical product documentation (TPD) gained by your educational degree or work experience.
• Experience in translating customer needs into technical requirements and then clearly defining the complete architectural needs to project members.
• Experience with third parties to outsource module development.
• A strong customer focus, excellent communication skills and the energy, enthusiasm and motivational power and ability to inspire the development of new high precision products for our customers.

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