Mechatronics Engineer

FORTNA partners with the world’s leading brands to transform omnichannel and parcel distribution operations. Known world-wide for enabling companies to keep pace with digital disruption and growth objectives, we design and deliver solutions, powered by intelligent software, to optimize fast, accurate and cost-effective order fulfillment and last mile delivery. Our people, innovative approach and proprietary algorithms and tools ensure optimal operations design and material and information flow. We deliver exceptional value every day to our customers with comprehensive services and products including network strategy, distribution center operational design and implementation, material handling automated equipment, robotics and a comprehensive suite of lifecycle services.

At FORTNA, we believe in fostering a workplace that isn't just a job but a movement – a collective effort to redefine success and transform challenges into opportunities. "Join the Movement" encapsulates our commitment to a workplace culture that thrives on collaboration, celebrates diversity, and empowers every individual to contribute to something greater than themselves. Our Team. Our Passion. Our Approach.

As a System Engineer / Mechatronics Engineer at Fortna, you will be responsible for the development of logistics (sorting) systems and their implementation at clients' sites. You will lead projects alongside the project manager, being the main technical point of contact. While you'll be involved in all project phases, you'll delegate the execution of the functional design across engineering disciplines. Each discipline will have a lead engineer whom you'll guide while they oversee the engineers. In large projects, you'll monitor engineering budgets to ensure everyone stays within them.

Your main tasks:

• Identify and understand customer needs at the project outset
• Brainstorm functional design and determine technical approach for sorting systems
• Investigate and incorporate safety requirements, ensuring compliance for CE marking
• Document design using industry-specific 3D modeling program and functional specification
• Implement safety features and establish functional acceptance criteria
• Analyze acceptance results and iterate for system improvement
• Present, discuss, inspect, and test systems during final implementation phases
• Collaborate within the System Engineering team under a manager
• Manage multiple projects simultaneously with varying durations
• Maintain regular client communication and support colleagues
• Contribute to minor improvement projects within the team

On this role, you will travel to visit clients, approximately once a month, in countries like Germany, Denmark, or Italy

Qualifications and experience

• Bachelor's or master's degree in engineering.
• 5 to 10 years of experience in a technical environment, with some of those years directly working with mechatronics projects.
• Ability to balance customer functional needs with technical quality of systems, considering financial aspects
• A highly proactive mindset. You thrive on tackling complex problems and coming up with solutions
• Creative problem-solving skills
• Knowledge of and experience with technical developments/applications and safety standards
• Organized, efficient, and motivated to contribute to Fortna's development
• Knowledge of logistics systems is a plus but not required.
• Fluent in English. Is a plus if you speak Dutch, at least at a conversational level.

What Can You Expect From Us:

Our organization is flat and is growing globally, so not everything is set in stone, and we expect you to thrive on that! We offer 33 vacation days, a solid pension plan, travel allowance, training budget, a bicycle plan, healthy fruit @Work, hybrid working, and various social events with colleagues.

What we offer:

A versatile, challenging, and varied role where you design, coordinate, organize, optimize, and develop projects independently. You'll join a small, enthusiastic team of colleagues in an informal and flexible organization that strives for further growth.

Are you ready for this challenge?

If you recognize yourself in the above profile and are interested, apply today!