Materials Handling Consultant

The industry is increasingly requiring itself to react quickly on customer demands, improving effectiveness and efficiency while increasing cost and risk. This while there is a pressing requirement to eliminate negative impact on the planet and to operate in a socially acceptable manner.  

Are you interested in being involved in materials handling projects where you help clients to optimise their industrial site and transform their facility to comply with above requirements?? Then this vacancy might be something for you!

What will you do

We are looking for a Materials Handling Consultant. You will play a crucial role in advising our clients and will guide other team members through the process.
Within the Business Line Industry and Buildings we have extensive knowledge of the design of industrial production facilities and bulk terminals. We are typically involved in the early project phases of CAPEX projects; we are translating the client’s wishes into the first design sketches and flow diagrams up to selection of optimum materials handling concepts based on a thorough understanding of their processes. Typical activities include definition of transportation and storage concepts, capacity analysis, scenario analysis and de-bottlenecking assisted by powerful dynamic simulation software.  The projects can vary from a concept design for a grain terminal somewhere in South America to the optimisation of a part of the plant of one of our heavy industry clients in The Netherlands.   

In your role as Materials Handling Consultant, you

• will be a project lead and manage small and larger project teams;
• manage the customer stakeholders, from engineers up to C-level;
• are an expert on various relevant topics (e.g. logistics, green energy carriers, circularity, bulk/materials handling, materials handling equipment, etc.);
• manage multiple customer accounts and build sustainable long-term relations with our clients;

generate new business and initiate new projects.

Where you will work

Royal HaskoningDHV is a worldwide independent engineering, project management and consultancy firm which integrates 140 years of engineering expertise with digital technologies and software solutions. Our 6,000 colleagues are working from offices in more than 25 countries across the world. Through our mission Enhancing Society Together, we take responsibility for having a positive impact on the world. We aim to minimise our impact on the environment, leading by example in our projects, our own business operations and by our role is “giving back” to society. As our new Materials Handling Consultant, you will become part of the Business Line Industry & Buildings.

The department where you will be working is part of the Business Unit Industry & Energy. Within this unit we work with enthusiastic and energetic colleagues who are available day in and day out for our industrial clients in developing their projects. The Energy & Process advisory group consists of more than 80 employees who work from our offices in Amersfoort, Rotterdam, Nijmegen, Groningen and Amsterdam, among others.

What you bring

By being a team player with a client-oriented mindset, you are energized to go the extra mile. To work as professional as possible, you know how to present yourself, Royal HaskoningDHV and the projects in English and preferably also in Dutch. Furthermore, you have an entrepreneurial, proactive and flexible attitude.
In addition to that, you:

• Have a relevant university degree (mechanical engineering or similar);
• You have knowledge of materials handling studies and design of materials handling/logistic systems;
• Have experience as a consultant in a consultancy or engineering company;
• General knowledge of dynamic simulation software (e.g. FlexSim and or Witness) is a pré.
• You are a team player;
• You are client oriented and have skills to develop and manage the commercial phase with clients;
• You have an excellent and productive network;
• Can act at senior level; minimum of 7 years of relevant experience.
• Live in The Netherlands.

As our clients are located all over the Netherlands and worldwide, flexibility towards traveling is expected;
You have a good knowledge of English and preferably also of Dutch.

What we offer you

Within our company you will be able to develop yourself while working on challenging projects and programmes, both in the Netherland and worldwide.

Besides that, we also offer you:

• A good work-life balance;
• A workplace in our office in Rotterdam or Amersfoort and travel allowance or a NS-Business Card;
• Laptop and company cell phone;
• 28 holidays based on a 40-hour work week;
• A good primary salary and pension accrual through our own pension fund;
• Lifelong learning by offering you plenty of training & development opportunities;
• Personal budget which you can use to buy extra days off, to buy a bicycle or just to have some additional salary;
• Bonusses based on company profit.

We aim to become one of the most inspiring companies to work for and to achieve this ambition, we need the best talent to come and work for us. We look for candidates with the right skills and values to join us and selection is based on a fair and equal process. We’re proud to be committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from all backgrounds.

Are you our new colleague?

We would like to meet you! Click on the apply button and upload your resume and motivation letter. After receiving your application, we will contact you as soon as possible. The application process then consists of one or two interviews and a possible assessment. Are we all enthusiastic after this? Then you will receive an offer from us, and we will be happy to welcome you on board!

For more information, you can always contact Kevin Zandbergen, Lead Recruiter Industry & Buildings, at [email protected].

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Acquisition for this vacancy by agencies is not appreciated and offered candidates will not be taken into consideration.