V.I.E. Development Engineer (m/f) Smart Manufacturing & Robotics, Herzogenrath

Welcome at Saint-Gobain!

Saint-Gobain designs, produces and distributes materials and solutions which can be found everywhere in our living places and our daily life: in buildings, transportation, infrastructure and in many industrial applications.

Change the world – not on your own, but in a team that just pursued this mission for over 350 years. In one of the eight top global employer, one of the 100 largest industrial companies, with 170,000 employees and more than 39 billion euros in sales in over 60 countries.

Your tasks

• You will support the R&D activities of the team “Smart Manufacturing & Robotics”. Depending on your qualifications, experiences and interests we will select appropriate tasks or projects in one of the related areas.
• This could be anything from supporting a project leader in developing and refining automation concepts with the engineering department of a business unit, setting up a pilot system or running experiments to performing a market survey on a specific technology.
• Topics of interest in the area of automation range from classical or collaborative robotics via sensors and adaptive systems to autonomous vehicles and smart devices.
• In the area of Industry 4.0 we are looking for people with an interest in the technical topics such as the required infrastructures and mathematical model development to the challenging subject areas of worker skill development and human-system interfaces.

In collaboration with the team, it will be your task to:

• Manage studies and work-packages for R&D projects
• Take part in experimental design, realization of tests and follow-up planning
• Carrying out autonomously experiments in the internal laboratory or on an industrial line
• Deepening group’s know-how by studying literature and through exchanges with researchers

Your profile

• University degree, preferably with focus in engineering, informatics or physics (M.Sc., M.Eng.) or comparable study
• Good understanding of technical and physical interrelations
• Independent and well-structured way of work, distinctive analytic thinking
• Passionate and motivated team player
• Strength in communication
• Very good command of English both written and spoken
• Good command of French and / or German is a plus