Manager Electrical Engineering

About the role

JBT Marel is hiring a Manager Electrical Engineering for its Poultry sustainment engineering team in Boxmeer. You will lead electrical engineering activities across the product lifecycle, from free for sales to end of life, safeguarding the technical integrity, standardization and future readiness of electrical solutions. The role combines people leadership, technical expertise, stakeholder management and strategic workforce planning, with a hybrid arrangement of 3-4 days a week in the office.

Key responsibilities

• Lead, coach and develop a team of 10-15 electrical engineers, defining priorities, managing workload and allocating resources.
• Drive the delivery of electrical engineering activities in sustainment projects and ensure consistent quality of deliverables.
• Create and run strategic workforce plans and lead continuous improvement of engineering processes.
• Own the electrical architecture of the Poultry portfolio, driving standardization, modularization and reuse.
• Support enterprise-wide engineering and product data management initiatives and machine safety, electrical safety and regulatory compliance.
• Work with Software Engineering on controls, industrial connectivity, machine safety and cybersecurity hardware, and with Product Management, Project Management, NPD, Service and Sales.
• Partner with senior leadership on long-term technology roadmaps and emerging technologies.

Required profile

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechatronics, Industrial Automation or a related field.
• Proven experience leading engineering teams in a complex technical environment.
• Experience in a sustainment, product lifecycle or engineering organization.
• Strong English, written and spoken.
• Nice to have: food processing or poultry industry experience, knowledge of EPLAN or AutoCAD Electrical, agile tools such as Jira and Confluence, and PLM/PDM implementation experience.

Required skills

• Electrical engineering, industrial automation, machine safety and electrical system architecture.
• Nice to have: EPLAN, AutoCAD Electrical, Jira, Confluence, PLM/PDM.

What we offer

• Hybrid working and 42 vacation days.
• Laptop, iPhone and a fully equipped home office.
• Pension plan and collective health insurance options.
• Unlimited access to LinkedIn Learning and Busuu.
• Internal growth opportunities and an international, inclusive team culture.