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Mechanical Engineer for “Design & Integration” in R&D Hardware

Published: 2025-01-28
Department
R&D
Nils Foss Allé 1
3400  Hillerød

Contact
Claus Øllgaard


Country
Denmark

Do you want to help make the world a better place by ensuring safer food and reducing food waste?
Are you passionate about product development and excited to work with high-tech analytical instruments like lasers, X-rays, and Near Infrared (NIR) Spectroscopy?

We have many exciting new projects in the pipeline, as well as existing projects that require us to expand our team to support our innovation journey.

We are looking for two skilled Mechanical Engineers to help develop the next generation of cutting-edge analytic instruments.

"Working at FOSS means being part of a great atmosphere with helpful colleagues. We balance low volume and high quality, always pushing the edge of what’s technologically possible. Our instruments incorporate many advanced technologies, offering a great variation in mechanical challenges that keep every day exciting and rewarding.” — Henrik Dan Nielsen, Mechanical Engineer at FOSS.

 

What you’ll do
As a Mechanical Engineer at FOSS, you will: 

  • Work on projects together with the Project Manager and a Mechanical Lead
  • Collaborate with specialists from other functions such as hardware electronics, software, testing, and production
  • Develop concepts for mechanical solutions
  • Perform tolerance calculations
  • Create 2D drawings
  • Create functional models and prototypes

Your Professional Competences
You hold an MSc or BSc degree in Mechanical Engineering, are fluent in English and Danish, and have 5+ years of working experience in many of the following areas:

  • Solid experience with using 3D/2D CAD design (we use Autodesk Inventor)
  • Experienced with systematic product development
  • Experienced in designing mechanical solutions that contain electronics and electromechanics
  • Familiar with prototyping techniques and additive manufacturing methods
  • Basic knowledge of plastic, sheet metal and aluminum materials

Your Future Team: Design & Integration in Mechanics, R&D Hardware
The Design & Integration team belongs to the “Mechanics” section in the R&D Hardware department, which comprises more than 68 developers and makes up about one-quarter of the R&D organization at FOSS—and we are growing.

We have a range of support functions and facilities, including technical assistants who support change request handling, 2D drawings, service manuals, and bills of material. We also have a simulation team that supports FEA simulations, and a tool shop with facilities including a CNC machine, a laser cutter, and several 3D printers.

You will have the opportunity to take on the responsibility of knowledge domain owner for one or more disciplines, such as injection-molded parts, tolerance chains, design reviews, 3D CAD, kinematics, flow systems, etc. This means there is room for both your personal and professional development, as well as the opportunity to use your skills to guide and review the work of other mechanical engineers to ensure we deliver high-quality solutions to the market.

We offer
FOSS offers an international and dynamic working environment with good opportunities to develop professionally and personally. At FOSS, we value our employees. Cooperation based upon confidence, straightforward communication and clear objectives creates job satisfaction and good colleagues. We wish to motivate our employees to take responsibility and influence their own work situation. We value work life balance and flexibility. In FOSS you will get a challenging and varied job with large influence on method/tools used to solve a task and a focus on continuous learning and development opportunities.

Sounds interesting?
Then send us your application and CV via the link below. We screen applications as they come in, so apply now - better today than tomorrow! Any questions can be directed to Head of Design & Integration, Mechanics, R&D Hardware. Claus Øllgaard on cbod@foss.dk

FOSS is committed to maintaining an inclusive culture and a diverse workforce. You can help us sustain an unbiased recruitment process by not including photo or age in your application.

FOSS
Today, more than 8 billion people around the world are dependent on nutritional food. Tons of food being produced in a million different ways and under varying conditions, creating challenges all the way from field to fork. One of them, obviously, being the effects it has on climate change. 

FOSS helps the world’s 100 biggest food companies and more than 40,000 others around the world navigate exactly that with intelligent, data-driven and innovative analytical solutions. We are making sustainability a better business and we’re doing so as global market leader in our field – improving food quality, minimizing food waste, ensuring food safety, and securing fair payment.

Join a pioneering and innovative company in the food and agriculture industry. A company on a mission, with offices all around the world and 1,700 talented colleagues from more than 32 different countries.

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