Cold Chain Engineer
Beschrijving
About Ranpak
Ranpak BV, EU headquartered Heerlen is an independent subsidiary of the American company of the same name. With 450 employees, Ranpak B.V. is responsible for the engineering, production and sales of environmentally friendly packaging materials and systems throughout Europe, Asia and Australia. Because of the unique, simple packaging solutions, Ranpak made an international name as an innovative and sustainable trendsetter in the business. At present, Ranpak is one of the world’s fastest growing manufacturers in the packaging industry.
All of the world’s top online retail companies like bol.com, Amazon, Decathlon and many others use Ranpak’s environmentally sustainable, systems-based, product protection solutions for their e-commerce and industrial supply chains.
The position will consist of these tasks:
- Proactive contribution to the development of the new generation of products with regard to new concepts and new production techniques
- You investigate and analyze problems and bottlenecks based on a root-cause analysis and proactively come up with improvement proposals that have an impact on the short and long term (continuous improvement).
- Leading innovation projects
- Participates in design projects, customized products
- Optimizing existing products
- Drawing up structured R&D plans, documentation, drawings and calculations
- Supervising and setting up product tests
- Supervising the production of new products
- Actively looking for better solutions for the overall performance of the existing product range
- Maintain regular contacts with both internal / external customers and suppliers. Where necessary also on location. In this network you represent our customer and you maintain good relationships
- Frequent contact with our customers
- Administration, sharing and reporting of activities related to R&D
Qualifications:
- A technical bachelor’s or master’s degree, preferably in Mechanical Engineering, Industrial Engineering or equivalent.
- 8-10 years of relevant work experience in an independent R&D or engineering position within a technical work environment
- Technical lead for highly complicated Sales/NPI projects & Level 3/4 CP’s
- Ability to manage Projects successfully, including resource management out of other departments
- Ability to divide all engineering department project work within scope among team members and ensure completion by deadlines
- Ability to work with a wide range of stakeholders, from Marketing to Sales to Operations to R&D/Engineering colleagues around the globe
- Ability to handle unhappy senior (leadership) stakeholders including external customers
- Thinking in various scenarios, participate pro-actively in roadmap discussions and choose ideal roadmap
- A broad interest, varying from equipment construction to process technology
- A driven personality who persists even when it becomes difficult and can work independently
- In addition to the Dutch language, you also master the English language, spoken and written
- Willing to travel (national and international)
What is in it for you:
- The possibility to make impact in a fast growing stock listed company
- Interesting learning & development opportunities
- A competitive renumeration package (with room for growth)
- Travel expense allowance
- Flexibility to working from home
Plaats
Ranpak - Heerlen Limburg Netherlands
