Senior development engineer

Are you passionate about food and technology? Do you have a strong engineering background and a knack for turning ideas into reality? In this role, you'll create innovative cooking functions.
About The Member Company We are a global high-tech consultancy company with a team of entrepreneurial engineers, scientists, and digital experts from around the world. Together we form a fast-growing and proud community. We offer consultancy services to high-profile clients globally in diverse service areas, such as:

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Life sciences & Pharma
Digital & IT

About this vacancy As Sr Pre-development Engineer, you possess food knowledge and cooking process knowledge. You are an engineer. You would be working in pre-development team, along with fellow function development engineers, mechanical engineers, electronic engineers and specific domain experts to realize ideas and bring them further to life. You would define, develop, specify, build, verify and evaluate cooking functions and functional concepts and product prototypes for Healthy Cooking.
Responsibilities:

Understand the food and cooking domain, including consumer needs, technology trends, and existing solutions.
Translate consumer and business requirements into technical insights for function development.
Independently work within your assigned scope, breaking down functions into technical principles.
Draft functional concepts and identify key enablers and obstacles.
Conduct studies to fill knowledge gaps, including reaching out to experts and performing computer simulations.
Foster a scientific approach from hypothesis to validation.
Develop measurement methods and test protocols.
Specify function and system requirements based on insights from experiments and simulations.
Demonstrate hypothesis testing using statistical engineering tools.
Evaluate trade-offs between technical, consumer, and business aspects.
Communicate effectively in English with team members, industrialization teams, and non-technical colleagues.
What we expect from you Experience and Qualifications:

Bachelor's degree in engineering (MSc preferred) in fields such as food engineering, mechanical engineering, applied physics, or applied chemistry.
Minimum 5 years of experience in senior R&D roles.
Demonstrable food knowledge and affinity for food preparation.
Awareness of food safety regulations.
Familiarity with pre-development processes and tools (e. g. , description statistics, morphological charts, DOE, TRIZ, FMEA).
Experience with simulation packages (e. g. , FEM).
Proficient in spoken and written English.
What you can expect from us With TMC Groningen, you make full use of our Employeneurship model. This means at least the following:

A permanent contract;
Individual profit sharing on top of your fixed salary up to 50%
Professional coaching to boost your career;
Knowledge sharing through Pizza sessions, TechTank sessions, and Q-meetings;
Informal events with your colleagues;
A salary ranging from € 4. 800 and € 6. 555
Besides he above, TMC offers you guidance throughout your project at the client where your business managers focuses on your well-being, work-life balance, and career development.
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