As a Mechanical Architect you will be the driving force for the development of high-tech, highly complex systems for professional mechatronic equipment, and enable optimal functionality and cost effective engineering of those systems. Starting during the pre-concept phase, you act as a counterpart for the Project Manager within T&D for scoping the project and challenging our customer. While going through the different design phases, you will be the driving force who challenges the feasibility and cost-effectiveness of the proposed design solutions, bringing together the multidisciplinary team on a technical level while acting as a technical counterpart on system level with our customers.
Your responsibilities include:
- Quotation Phase: create a plan with scope, cost and lead time estimation together with the project team and the customer.
- Feasibility phase: consolidate customer requirement specifications into an investigation of the feasibility of (mechanical) concepts.
- Definition Phase: develop Description of System Design Requirements and Specifications and discuss them with internal/external stakeholders.
- System Design Phase: generation of system design concepts and reviews:
- Develop well-considered choices, validated against system requirements
- Definition of high level modules and related technical interfaces
- Monitor that projects stay within agreed specifications.
- Make use of your creativity and helicopter view to find solutions in case of conflicts
- Detail Phase: supervise the creation of 3-D models and drawings, ensuring (sub)module interfaces meet their respective requirements.
- System integration and verification: verify design / the chosen concept on the requirements by means of functional models or (pre-)proto production.
- Production release: release the design for production.
Requirements:
- Master’s Degree or PhD in Mechanical or Mechatronic Engineering, preferably with a focus on construction / precision mechanics.
- At least 10 years of relevant working experience (semicon, precision mechanics, or similar).
- Extensive knowledge of mechanic design principles, accurate positioning, dynamic behavior, material properties, strength and stiffness.
- Deep understanding and experience in the different design phases ranging from conceptual design up to Proto- and Pilot evaluation.
- Experienced in multidisciplinary projects, knowing dependency between electrical, electromechanical and mechanical (sub)systems in both the static and dynamic domain.
- User of 3D design tools (e.g. NX or SolidWorks).
- User of product lifecycle management systems (e.g. TeamCenter or EPDM).
