Sander van der Maat
Talent acquisition
+31 (0)40 - 2677100
+31 (0)40 - 2677100
As a Mechanical Architect, your role is essential in contributing to challenging business cases and technical roadmaps from a mechanical perspective and in a multi-disciplinary context.
In this role, you support our customers in the high tech industry with developing cutting-edge equipment, both in the Brainport region and internationally. Together with experts in mechanics, mechatronics, electronics, software and mathematics you will bring high-tech solutions to life, such as advanced lithography machines, compact electron microscopes or medical devices that automate human tissue analysis.What excites you as a Mechanical Architect?
From our location in Eindhoven or sometimes at our clients' premises you like to keep yourself busy with:
- Close collaboration with customers, fellow architects, the Project Manager, Account Manager, and the broader project team to ensure alignment and synergy.
- You translate customer needs into specifications, define mechanical architecture, budgets, and conceptual designs of (sub)systems.
- Specification of test and integration requirements to complete the V-model development cycle and ensure product design quality.
- Building and maintaining internal and external networks to support organizational growth and success.
- Drive innovation by introducing new technologies and solutions, applying theoretical principles in practical project contexts.
- Lead by example, motivating designers and engineers to take ownership of their deliverables.
- As an Architect Mechanics, you manage broader, more complex scopes of work, including stakeholder management, technical leadership, and guiding larger multidisciplinary teams.
Sound good so far? We'd love to tell you more...
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What do you bring to the table?
- MSc or PhD in Mechanical or Mechatronic Engineering.
- Proven track record in mechanical design within high-tech systems and/or equipment.
- 10 to 15 years of experience in mechatronic and precision system design, depending on seniority level.
- Broad multidisciplinary orientation, understanding how mechanical expertise integrates within complex systems.
- Strong analytical and abstract thinking skills, with proficiency in various analysis methods.
- Excellent communication skills for effective collaboration with both internal and external stakeholders.
- Recognized as a technical leader and inspirational coach, with deep theoretical and practical knowledge in technical design, mechanisms, precision mechanics, and Design for Excellence (DfX).
What can you expect in return from Sioux?
Why you want to work at Sioux:
- A flexible 32-40 hour working week, with room to work from home.
- A healthy work-life balance is very important to us, we have 28 holidays with an option to acquire an additional 12 holidays.
- You will work with passionate colleagues who share your drive for technology and business success.
- By combining our expertise in software, electronics, mechanics, mechatronics, mathematics and assembly, we make the impossible possible for our customers – working on challenging high-tech projects.
- You get a lot of freedom and responsibility; after all, you know exactly what you are doing.
- Personal coaching and a training budget of €6000 per year, so you can keep developing yourself.
- We also find it important to have fun together, this means everything from family festivals and sparkling Christmas parties, to inspiring knowledge sessions for the high-tech community.
- You will be working on the Sioux Campus in the heart of the Brainport region, with daily access to our Sioux Labs living room for lunch, sports, making music, or sharing knowledge in one of our Tech Labs.
High-Tech, High-Fun, High-Value.
We can tell you all about the typical Sioux culture and the challenging high-tech projects. About how you can develop yourself like nowhere else. But we prefer to leave this to our own colleagues.
If you want to know more about our challenging projects, please click here.