Vacancy Mechanical

Performance Lead Engineer - DAF

For DAF Trucks, we are looking for a Project Lead engineer! Are you looking to make a step in your career? Always wanted to work with DAF? Perhaps, you are the technical team player we’re looking for!

| Your challenges?

As Project Lead Engineer in one or more projects, you are responsible for all integration and validation activities in our engine and after treatment development projects.

In this role, you apply your domain knowledge and team skills to take a leading role within Product Development.

• Take ownership of key performance indicators such as fuel economy, emissions, durability, reliability, and diagnostic robustness for your project(s);
• Prioritize and plan test activities for all groups within the Engine Integration & Validation department, in close cooperation with the respective supervisors and line leads;
• Analyze, summarize, review, and report out test and analysis results to (Project) Management;
• Initiate monitoring for performance status and development, and project progress.

Daily activities are in close cooperation with Global Engine Development teams in Eindhoven and North America, and other PACCAR stakeholders (Embedded Engineering, Production Engineering, After Sales, Compliance, etc). In this role, you report to the Engineering Supervisor System Performance, and align on daily activities with all EI&V groups and the Project Core Team(s).

Within PACCAR Inc., DAF Trucks Global Engine Development is the center of competence for engine and aftertreatment development. In our state-of-art engine development center we develop engine families for future regulations, for DAF, Peterbilt and Kenworth trucks. Our engines and trucks are best-in-class products in the transportation world, being always driven by providing environmentally friendly products with highest reliability and best cost-effectiveness for our customers.

The Engine Integration & Validation department is responsible for definition, integration, verification, and validation of engine and after treatment families towards performance requirements. The department is split into 8 groups and the System Performance group holds a vacancy for a Project Lead Engineer.

| What do we expect from you?

• Degree in Mechanical or Automotive Engineering;
• At least 5 years of relevant working experience;
• Basic knowledge of engine, aftertreatment, and on-board diagnostics;
• Good English skills are mandatory, Dutch skills are a pre
• Experience with working in multidisciplinary teams is preferable.
• Clear communication, verbally, in writing, and while presenting;
• Initiative, to (have) identify strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats, and improve our engine and after treatment in all applications;
• Cooperation, for bringing groups with different insights together;
• Analytical capacity, to combine information from many different sources on their impact;
• Stress tolerance, for feeling at ease in an environment which can change rapidly.

| What does our Business Cell have to offer?

Our Employeneurs work within business cells based on fields of technological expertise. Specialized cells of Employeneurs, focused on high-tech niche competences, provide intensive engagement and knowledge exchange. It’s an organizing principle that has proven itself to be resilient, inspiring, flexible and strong. Because of a cell’s limited size and tight focus, it functions as a high-grade knowledge network. And let’s not forget that it’s also simply a nice way to stay in touch with colleagues with a comparable background, who are working on other projects.

| What can you expect from TMC?

TMC is an international high-tech consultancy company that brings expertise to their clients in order to support them with the realization of their technological challenges. As such, TMC is operating as an expert center at the disposition of its clients and we help them to be more competitive in an ever more global and faster changing technological world.

At TMC we believe that people are the driving force behind technological innovation. That is why we want to create the best possible conditions for tech talents to thrive in. We offer you a challenging and stimulating work environment in which you can be the director of your own career.

As an Employeneur you are part of our TMC family. Next to our outstanding technical expertise, fun and engagement are meaningful parts of our culture.

| Why choose for Employeneurship?

We are truly unique thanks to our Employeneurship model which is a true innovation for the High Technology consulting business. It is the business relationship of the 21th century for high skilled technical professionals. It is built around 5 main pillars:

• You will have a permanent employment contract, offering you stability and security
• You will get to know your market value and have a share in the profit your work generates thanks to the individual profit sharing
• We will support you with a one-on-one coaching and trainings designed to help you develop your entrepreneurial skills
• The competence cells structure, provides you with a strong meaningful and relevant network
• The entrepreneurial lab: a playground for new ideas and a potential launching for start-ups

TMC is an equal opportunity employer and values diversity. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.