Posted:
2/8/2026, 11:32:33 PM
Location(s):
Santiago Metropolitan Region, Chile
Experience Level(s):
Senior
Field(s):
Mechanical Engineering
Vanderlande is a global leader in logistic process automation for warehousing, airports, and parcel sectors. We provide innovative systems, intelligent software, and life-cycle services to optimize business processes and enhance operational efficiency. As a subsidiary of Toyota Industries, we are committed to delivering future-proof solutions.
Job Description:
Participate in system design:
- Advise and reviews projects in the sales phase (compliancy check)
- Translate and optimize the as sold functionality to a working mechanical design within the budget available in co-operation with other disciplines (LLC, HLC, Installation etc.)
- Identify specials (DAR process) and coordinate design with SDE (responsible for end product)
- Coordinate phasing layouts i.e. brownfield projects
- Coordinate steelwork design
- Integrate design rules for safety and ergonomics in design
- Deliver mechanical design baseline for customer approval
- Coordinate building interfaces (space requirements, architectural & structural interfaces, building services, accessibility for
O&M, safety and security)
- Coordinate interfaces for procurement items
- Coordinate operator interfaces
Participate in detailed design:
- Create / generate the equipment list as input for hard- and software engineering
- Specify mechanical equipment and peer review specifications of other engineers (or delegates this to the layout engineer)
- Coordinate and specify resale equipment (standard and special)
- Archive mechanical deliverables
Organize supply:
- Define activity split up based on installation areas, PLC areas and model split-up
- If needed makes forecasts of necessary equipment
- Define and monitor mechanical workpackages
Plan, report and lead a team
- Regularly reports to / updates PLE / PME
- Create detailed mechanical planning from overall project planning and synchronise plan with other disciplines.
- Lead layout engineer(s) and mechanical engineer(s)
Manage budget:
- Deliver scope with predictable quality in time and within budget
- Independently make estimates of budgets, engineering hours and a planning for mechanical (part)project
Support site:
- Create installation file
- Create Mechanical Running Test
- Handle site problem reports
- Create extra material specifications
- Create site installations instructions
- Support the installation and commissioning teams both on site and from Veghel
- Processes as-built documentation from site
Continuous improvement:
- Transfer knowledge to other engineers
- Initiates improvements in content, process and tooling
- Feeds back lessons learned from the project into product, process and tooling
- Supports product manager engineering
- Tutors new engineers
Qualifications
Website: https://www.vanderlande.com/
Headquarter Location: Veghel, Noord-Brabant, The Netherlands
Employee Count: 1001-5000
Year Founded: 1949
IPO Status: Private
Industries: Computer ⋅ Information Technology ⋅ Logistics ⋅ Transportation ⋅ Warehouse Automation