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From our Belgian roots, we have grown into an international group with more than 3,100 employees, 40 subsidiaries and a presence in more than 70 countries. We help growers worldwide to produce healthy crops with innovative and sustainable solutions.\nWithin BioFirst Group, Biobest is a pioneer in biological crop protection and natural pollination. Because we work with living organisms such as beneficial insects, mites and bumblebees, our production is anything but standard. This creates technical challenges for which traditional machines do not always offer a ready-made answer.\nTo strengthen our engineering team in Westerlo, we are looking for a Design & Project Engineer Electromechanics.\nYour mission?\nAs a Design & Project Engineer, you will help drive the automation and technical development of our production environment in Belgium. You will work on a wide range of technical solutions, including packaging and filling machines, mixing installations and other automation systems tailored to our specific production processes.\nRather than designing every machine from scratch, you start by exploring what is already available on the market. You identify the most suitable solutions, select the right technical partners and work closely with machine builders and suppliers to develop the best solution for Biobest. When off-the-shelf solutions don’t fully meet our needs, you apply your own technical and design expertise to adapt or redesign machines and components.\nIn this role, you combine technical expertise with project management, stakeholder coordination and a hands-on mindset. From the initial concept and technical specifications to installation and a fully operational machine on the production floor, you take ownership of the project and keep the bigger picture in sight.\nYour responsibilities\nTogether with production, R&D, technical service, process improvement and other internal stakeholders, you map out technical needs and translate them into a clear project scope and specifications.\nYou will investigate available machines and technologies and determine which solutions best suit our production environment.\nYou select and supervise suppliers, machine builders, installers and assembly partners.\nYou critically assess technical proposals and challenge external partners in terms of design, functionality, safety, reliability and practical applicability.\nYou use your own design and engineering knowledge to adapt existing solutions or work out parts yourself when necessary.\nYou monitor the progress, timing and technical quality of your projects and keep the stakeholders involved well connected.\nYou will closely follow the installation and implementation on the production floor.\nYou will perform Site Acceptance Tests (SAT) and ensure that machines are delivered correctly, safely and according to the agreed specifications.\nYou organize the necessary training courses for users and technicians.\nYou ensure a good transfer to the maintenance team and support with more complex technical issues.\nYour profile\nYou are a technically strong all-rounder who likes to look beyond the drawing package alone. You find it interesting to analyze a technical problem, investigate different solutions and then bring together the right people and parties to realize the project.\nYou have a bachelor's or master's degree in electromechanics or a similar technical field.\nYou have 4 to 7 years of relevant experience within mechanical engineering, engineering, automation or a similar technical project environment.\nYou have sufficient technical and conceptual knowledge to critically assess designs and challenge suppliers in terms of content.\nYou have experience in designing electromechanical systems and programming PLCs (Siemens).\nYou combine a hands-on mentality with the ability to keep an overview of an entire engineering project.\nYou work in a structured and project-based way and take independent ownership of projects from scope determination to implementation.\nYou have strong communication skills and involve various stakeholders in your projects in a constructive way.\nYou have a good knowledge of materials, including metals, plastics and electrical, mechanical and pneumatic components.\nYou have a thorough knowledge of machine safety.\nYou have experience with 3D and electrical drawing packages; experience with SolidWorks is a strong asset.\nYou think analytically and critically, but at the same time are creative enough to find solutions when a standard approach does not work.\nYou communicate fluently in Dutch and English.\nWhat do we offer you?\nAt Biobest, we invest in people who want to work with us to build a sustainable future for agriculture and horticulture. 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