Medior Consultant Manufacturing & Supply Chain

“With your passion for manufacturing, you help our clients improving their operations.”
Were you always passionate as a kid by the television program ‘How it is made’? As a Medior Consultant Manufacturing & Supply Chain you can make a difference in the production world. Projects around improving a production process and looking for inefficiencies are just the beginning…

What you do as a Medior Consultant Manufacturing & Supply Chain

As a Medior Consultant Manufacturing & Supply Chain at Districon you wall tackle questions like: How can manufacturers improve the planning & control of their production process. Which inefficiencies are taking place in the production process and what waste can be eliminated? How can you guarantee that production keeps on going by having sufficient supply, given all disruptions going on in the world? How will the material handling process look like in a new factory? What is the role of IoT in the factory of the future? You will provide answers to these questions by doing site visits, applying your industry specific knowledge and using your analytical skills.

Where you will work

Join us! For over 45 years, Districon has been working with organizations all over the world to develop strategies and solve problems for integrated chain management. How can things be done even more efficiently and sustainably? We enjoy challenges, the harder the better. Only the best result is good enough. We succeed in this with 80 enthusiastic colleagues from Amersfoort, Singapore and Chicago.

Districon is the advisory group Supply Chain & Logistics of Royal RaskoningDHV. Royal HaskoningDHV is a global engineering, project management and consultancy firm, with 6,000 colleagues in 140 countries. Together we work on projects that have a positive impact on people, our living environment and the economy. With the Business Line Industry & Buildings we serve a broad, international market. Within the Business Line there are projects within various markets, where our focus is on manufacturing companies.

You will be working in the supply chain team, which consists of around 30 enthusiastic and driven colleagues. Together with the other Business Consultants with different expertises, you spar and constantly challenge each other to get the best out of yourself. You are entrepreneurial and would like to contribute to the further development of the Manufacturing & Supply Chain discipline within Districon. We are doing this together with all other colleagues in RHDHV with engineering capabilities in the area of manufacturing, like process engineers or architects.

What you bring

You have a great passion for optimizing existing manufacturing processes and designing logistic & digital blueprints for the factory of the future. Your experience shows your ambition to develop yourself in the Manufacturing & Supply Chain field. For example in your previous role as (internal) consultant. You are reliable and persevere until you find the right solution. You are flexible, like to visit your international customers and a changing work place is something that appeals to you. As a real team player you operate effortlessly in multi-stakeholder environments and you work well in teams, both internally and externally.

Furthermore, as Medior Consultant Manufacturing & Supply Chain you are:

• Analytically strong: you quickly comprehend and simplify complicated processes and draw the right conclusions based on logistical characteristics
• Inquisitive: you always want to know exactly how things work and you get to the core of the question.
• Result-oriented: you get a kick out of improving the manufacturing operations within the deadlines of the customer
  
  

As a basis, you bring along:

• A completed university degree in Industrial Engineering, Supply Chain Management, Mechanical Engineering or comparable education
• At least 2 years of work experience in for example improving production planning/scheduling systems or leading (parts of) continuous improvement programs
• Excellent command of both Dutch and English

What we offer you

Within Districon, we have all the knowledge and experience for you to grow and develop as a manufacturing & supply chain consultant. At Districon, being a smaller company, everybody knows each other and we all support your initiatives and ideas. Because some of our clients are internationally active, chances are that you work abroad, or you can gain experience for a short time at our offices around the globe, just have a look at https://www.royalhaskoningdhv.com/en/offices to see our global presence. A good work-life balance is our priority: we complement hard work, Friday afternoon drinks, barbecues, winter sports outings and a weekend trip with the whole company once every two years.

And then you also get:

• a competitive salary with good career opportunities
• participation in the multi-year development program 'Expedition Districon' that consists of coaching and training of practical skills and your consulting- and coaching skills
• a well-facilitated home office, so you can work partly at home and partly in the office 
  - including a laptop and smartphone
• Travel allowance for own or public transport
• 28 holiday days and the possibility to buy extra holiday days
• a personal budget to spend, for example on a bicycle or buy extra holidays, but you can also have it paid out
• an excellent pension scheme: no worries for later

“You will work in our office in Amersfoort. But you have access to all our other offices (eg: Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Eindhoven, Nijmegen).”

Are you our new colleague?

Then we would like to meet you! Apply via the button below, or if you have any questions please send them to Frank van der Velden, Lead Recruiter Multinationals, at [email protected]

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