Technical Project Engineer

Essensium is an expanding product development company that designs, produces, sells and provides service for Essensium real time Positioning System for forklifts (EPS), based on computer vision & AI technology (SafeTrack TM). We are solid and healthy company with brilliant people, flat no-nonsense culture. We do everything in-house, 100% in Belgium.

We are looking for a Technical Project Engineer to deploy our product line at customers in Belgium. This function offers a broad and interesting view on our state-of-the-art products and will allow you to grow in responsibilities over the coming years.

• Location: you live close to Ghent or West Brussels and you can easily travel to customers' sites in the area
• Hybrid/remote: you will travel to customers sites 3 days/week and work from home or office approximately 2 days/week.
• Languages: fluent English, plus Flemish or French
• Education: degree in mechanical, electrical or mechatronics engineering

Skills

• You already have 2+ years of experience in a technical role (as a pre- or post sales engineer, project engineer, field service engineer, etc) OR relevant internships in case you graduated recently
• Nice to have: professional background in the material handling space (warehouses, supply chain, forklifts, automated guided vehicles) or in computer vision
• You have experience in client-facing roles
• You are interested in electronics, RF technology, computer vision, positioning systems, safety applications
• You can work autonomously without micro-management
• Excellent problem-solving skills
• Work systematically and accurately
• Flexible and hands-on
• You can prioritize and manage several open issues
• You have excellent communication skills and communicate clearly, verbally and in writing
• English, Dutch and/or French
• You have a driver’s license
• Some experience with Linux and Python is a plus, but not a must.

Key responsibilities

• Manage the installation & bring-up of EPS installations at customer sites, guide our clients' engineers during the installations
• Calibration of the cameras
• Provide 1st line support to customers
• While most configuration and monitoring can happen via a remote link, the role does require regular travel to the customer sites
• Take charge of demos at customers and tradeshows. Assist the sales team with presentations, documentation and customer requests.
• Interact with customers, external partners and internal teams.
• Build up an expert knowledge of our products
• Collect customer feedback to improve our products.

Working environment

You’ll be working independently visiting our clients' sites, in collaboration with the technical team at the headquarters in Leuven, Belgium. Presence at our office in Heverlee is expected a few days per months, depends on where you live, also for onboarding, trainings and for team meetings.

We do we offer:

A permanent contract, company car, laptop, extra legal holidays, great healthcare package hospitalization included, super nice international team and many opportunities to learn and grow with us.

Even if you think that your experience and knowledge don't match this role perfectly, but the role itself, the industry and our SafeTrack product seem interesting - please apply, and we'll see if there's any common ground! Also, for any questions feel free to contact our in-house recruiter Katia Panyts directly at jobs@essensium.com or via LinkedIn