Team Lead Engineering

Royal IHC is currently recruiting a Team Lead Engineering for our Business Discipline Dredge Equipment in Kinderdijk.

Your job

You will be responsible for developing and coaching the engineering team, contributing to the strategy and timely and within budget delivery of on spec (OSBIT) engineering packages for the assigned products. You will be in close contact and cooperation with other disciplines within IHC to look after the stakeholders interests. In addition, you will work according to customer requirements, technical and operational guidelines to contribute to quality, safety, sustainability and efficient production processes for installations and equipment. You act as a team player in the sense of coaching and supporting. You observe the need for personal development of your team members and contribute to fulfil this. Also you’re playing a key role in allocating the work load to the engineering manpower resources within the product group and to our subcontractors. Another part of your activities lies within developing improvements for enhancing our performances, engineering processes, and safety awareness.

Your key responsibilities as Team Lead Engineering:

• Execution of engineering inside DE for projects and products in accordance with the goals as agreed with the senior users.
• Liaison with all other departments of IHC such that DE engineering can be executed in accordance with DE strategy.
• Creating and maintaining a culture where feedback from colleagues inside and outside of DE is actively obtained and implemented.
• Ensuring that our products are fit for purpose, simple and cost efficient to produce, make proposals for product improvements to product management and lead the development.
• Identify and analyse interface issues of your group with other departments and in cooperation with the relevant managers come to a solution and implementation such that the process is executed in the most optimum manner.
• Create, structure activities, manage and coach direct reports, motivate them though feedback, empower talent and performance management, stimulate team cooperation and employability and ensure succession planning, utilizing the instruments, services and procedures of corporate HR.

To be successful in this position you have:

• A bachelor’s or master’s degree in engineering.
• Five to eight years’ experience in related field of expertise.
• You are socially capable, you can build and maintain a team and you are genuinely interested in people and how your behavior influence others.
• You have affinity for engineering, you quickly see through the problem and get the right specialists at the table.
• You have a natural tendency to deliver results as well as can possibly be done.
• An intrinsic drive and skillset to lead continuous improvements.
• Excellent analytical, communication and problem-solving skills.
• Team player with a customer-oriented attitude and commercial awareness approach.
• Effective communication skills with fluency in Dutch as well as in English, both written and verbal.

Please note that only candidates with valid EU work visa will be considered as viable candidates. 

* These requirements give a direction to the profile we are looking. At Royal IHC, we warmly welcome anyone to join us, regardless of their background, disabilities or challenges. For example: research shows that male candidates apply if there is a 60% match and women only when there is a 100% match.  
Do you not meet all the requirements but do you think that this is the position for you? Then we would like to invite you to apply. 

Royal IHC offers you: 

• A gross monthly salary between €4.265,00 and €6.082,00 + 8% holiday allowance (based on a fulltime working week).
• Good work/life balance with 40 vacation days for full-time employment with the option to buy or sell (additional) leave.
• The possibility to work from home with associated expense allowance and/or to perform the work on the basis of flexible working hours (depending on the position).
• An average salary pension scheme in which matters are properly arranged in the event of accidental death, incapacity for work or unemployment.
• Good disability insurance.
• Participation (on a voluntary basis) in the Social Fund, on the basis of which care and related costs are reimbursed that are not covered by your health insurance.
• Discount on VGZ's additional healthcare insurance.
• A training budget of €1,500 every three years.
• Unlimited sporting in our own fitness room (in exchange for the sustainable employability day). 
• € 0,21 per kilometer commuting allowance.
• A profit-sharing scheme. 

Selection process (intern):  

After your application, there will be an interview. The interview will be with the Manager Engineering and HR. If everyone is enthusiastic, a phone call follows to discuss the terms of employment. 

Selection process (extern):  

After your application, there will first be a short phone call with the Corporate Recruiter. Subsequently, the selection procedure consists of two rounds of interviews. The first interview will be with the manager and a direct colleague. During the second interview, a manager from a different department and someone from HR will join. If everyone is enthusiastic, a phone call follows to discuss the terms of employment.