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Project Engineer
We are looking for an enthusiastic Project Engineer to join Villari. You will work with the wireless sensor systems we have developed to monitor steel structures (more about us later), and your work has two sides. Externally, you realise the application and installation of our hardware at customers, from the first drawings to a fully commissioned monitoring system. Internally, you help us organise the scale-up of our sensor production. You improve the quality checks on our sensors, and you support the logistics and preparation of projects so that these processes are set up properly.
This role requires a balance of technical expertise, practical insight and strong communication skills. For the customer side you travel abroad regularly, on average about twice a month: to ports, manufacturing plants, and major infrastructure projects across the globe. One week you might be working in a port in Spain, the next on a monumental bridge in Canada. These are places most people never get to see. Between trips you work from Delft on the internal projects. That way you know our hardware from both sides: how it is designed, manufactured and tested, and how it holds up in practice.
Fluent Dutch and English, spoken and written, are required for this role.
What will you do?
Your work consists of two core tasks: customer projects and internal production projects. How your time is divided between them varies from period to period.
At the customer: monitoring projects from start to finish
This is the core of your work as a Project Engineer. You guide monitoring projects from the customer’s first question to a system that measures reliably, and you are the point of contact throughout.
You help the customer set up a monitoring project: which structure/asset, which critical locations, and what the monitoring needs to deliver.
Together with customers, partner companies, and colleagues, you review the technical drawings and create a sensor layout that is technically feasible and fits what the customer wants to know.
You plan the project and arrange what it needs: hardware, logistics, people, and agreements with the customer on the execution.
You coordinate the installation. Sometimes you carry it out on-site yourself, sometimes you guide the customer remotely.
After installation, you check that the system does what was agreed. Our monitoring projects often run for several years. For that whole period you are the customer’s main point of contact for our measurement results: you explain what they show and what the customer can do with them.
Internally: quality, production and processes
What you see at customers, you bring back in house. There you work on the hardware itself and on the way we process it.
You monitor and improve the quality control of our hardware (probes, transmitters and gateways); a sensor only leaves the building once it has been tested.
You help scale up our internal production. You find the bottlenecks, document working methods and make sure we can process more sensors without compromising quality.
You help with the logistics and preparation of projects (stock, shipping to the project site) and think along about how we can organise this better.
What we are looking for
We are looking for someone who feels at home between customers, technology and production. This is what we look at most:
Strong communicator in Dutch and English: You speak and write both languages fluently and can explain technology clearly, to colleagues in Delft and to customers elsewhere.
Willing to travel: You enjoy travelling abroad, on average about twice a month.
Hands-on mentality: You organise and coordinate, but you also roll up your sleeves yourself. That applies on-site at the customer and internally when testing and processing our hardware. You work independently, take ownership and like to get the job done.
Sees the bigger picture: You keep technology, quality, customer and logistics in mind at the same time and see how a choice in production affects an installation, and vice versa. You switch easily between customer projects and internal projects and prioritise accordingly.
Problem solver: When an installation doesn’t go as planned or a production step could be better, you stay calm and look for the cause.
Eager to learn: You want to know how things work and why. You pick up new techniques and processes quickly and learn from every project.
Operational mindset: A process that simply runs well makes you happy, and you notice when it doesn’t. You work in a structured way and like to document and improve how things are done.
Customer-oriented: You enjoy direct contact with customers and build long-term relationships with them. You can explain technically complex topics clearly, and you deliver on your commitments.
What will you bring?
- A Bachelor’s and/or Master’s degree in a technical field, preferably an applied one such as mechanical or civil engineering
- Comfortable working at heights and in confined spaces; no fear of heights or claustrophobia
- Experience with quality control, testing or production is a plus
- In possession of a driver’s license
About us
At Villari, we are dedicated to extending the lifetime of steel structures through our certified crack detection technology. Our permanently installed wireless sensors detect even the smallest fatigue cracks in critical locations by analyzing variations in the magnetic field over time. Compared to traditional methods, we offer continuous and accurate inspection, carefree installation, competitive pricing, and certified technology. We work in critical environments: (rail)road bridges, ports, heavy industry, wind and offshore. Our sensors now monitor more than 150 critical structures in more than 25 countries: bridges, ships and cranes. We do this with a team of 15 FTE, based in Delft.
Villari’s core values are the following:
Integrity: We are honest about what we know and what we don't know for certain. We treat our data with the greatest care and understand that it is of utmost importance in this critical industrial environment in which we operate. There is always room to address doubts and uncertainties, such that nothing is swept under the rug.
Expertise: Our company is delivering seriously high-tech service: we’re not building a new app to order pizza. The combination of fatigue crack growth, ferromagnetic flux leakage, and seamless wireless communication is our unique domain in which we work with a proud team of highly-skilled and intellectual people. Customers rely on us because we know what we’re doing.
Accountability: We take responsibility for our actions. There’s no “not my problem” or “I don't care” attitude at Villari. Learning from each other and carrying both a collective and an individual feeling of ownership is extremely important in order to be an effective and well-balanced team.
Exploration: Villari was founded on the idea that we were bold enough to take complex physics and turn it into a meaningful product for our customers. As such we’ve pushed quite some boundaries along the way and we’re not afraid to turn left where others go right. On all levels people should be encouraged to try out new things and to test “wild ideas”. We understand and accept that new ideas sometimes turn out to be unsuccessful, as this is an integral part of exploring.
Approachability: As a company, and as individuals, we want to always be open for discussion, feedback, doubts, or just a casual chat about a topic unrelated to work. This goes towards clients, suppliers, colleagues, and towards superiors and people under your supervision. We help each other out and listen when others have something to say, regardless of seniority.
These values are at the core of our business and identity and it's very important that all our employees identify with these values.
What do we offer?
- A competitive salary, in line with your experience
- Contribute and experience being part of an internationally operating scale-up
- Both vibrant and professional company culture, based on ownership and responsibility
- 25 vacation days per year
- Every day we will provide a lunch at our office
- Monthly company drinks and regular company outings
https://www.villari-technology.com/
